title: Development of an adolescent risk-taking instrument.
abstract: The purpose of this research study was to estimate the reliability and content validity of an instrument designed to measure risk-taking in adolescents. Six subscales containing 69 items were developed to measure the adolescent's perception of risk-taking. Subjects consisted of 75 male and female adolescents enrolled in a vocational training program. Support for reliability was obtained by the use of Chronbach's alpha correlation coefficient for the subscales and the Risk-Taking Instrument.
authors.forename: N H
authors.initials: NH
authors.lastname: Busen
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008960:Models, Psychological; D009730:Nursing Assessment / Q000592:standards*; D015403:Nursing Evaluation Research; D000297:Psychology, Adolescent; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012309:Risk-Taking; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires / Q000592:standards*