title: [Risk-taking. Adolescent girls versus adolescent boys].
abstract: Epidemiologists as well as professionals working in the area of adolescent health generally agree that adolescence is a period characterized by a difference in frequency of risk-taking behaviour between girls and boys. An explanation of these data through ethno-psychological and psychodynamical approaches is hereby presented. Such approaches should be taken into account for general preventive strategies to take effect.
authors.affiliation: Centre Philippe-Paumelle, 11, rue Albert-Bayet, 75013 Paris, France. asm13bra@club-internet.fr
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authors.lastname: Braconnier
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000294:Adolescent Behavior; D001290:Attitude; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012309:Risk-Taking; D012727:Sex Characteristics