title: Relationships Between Future Orientation, Impulsive Sensation Seeking, and Risk Behavior Among Adjudicated Adolescents.
abstract: Because of high levels of risk behavior, adjudicated adolescents are at high risk for negative health outcomes such as nicotine and drug addiction and sexually transmitted diseases. The goal of this article is to examine relationships between future orientation and impulsive-sensation-seeking personality constructs to risk behaviors among 300 adjudicated adolescents. Significant relationships between impulsive sensation seeking and future orientation were found for several risk behaviors. Individuals with more positive future orientation were less likely to use marijuana, hard drugs, alcohol during sex, had fewer alcohol problems, had lower levels of alcohol frequency and quantity of use, and perceived greater risks associated with such behaviors. Higher impulsivity reliably predicted alcohol problems, alcohol use, condom use, and cigarette smoking.
authors.affiliation: Fordham University Reuben N. Robbins, M.A. is a clinical psychology doctoral student at Fordham University in New York City specializing in neuropsychology. He was formally the project director of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism funded longitudinal study (A. Bryan, principal investigator), Alcohol and HIV Risk Among Adolescents on Probation. His research interests include the neuropsychology of emotion, the impact of HIV serostatus on neuropsychological functioning, and risk behavior.
authors.forename: Reuben N
authors.initials: RN
authors.lastname: Robbins
authors.forename: Angela
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Bryan