title: Cognitive Control as a Moderator of Temperamental Motivations Toward Adolescent Risk-Taking Behavior.
abstract: Few studies have directly examined whether cognitive control can moderate the influence of temperamental positive and negative affective traits on adolescent risk-taking behavior. Using a combined multimethod, latent variable approach to the assessment of adolescent risk-taking behavior and cognitive control, this study examined whether cognitive control moderates the influence of temperamental surgency and frustration on risk-taking behavior in a sample of 177 adolescents (Mage = 16.12 years, SD = 0.69). As predicted, there was a significant interaction between cognitive control and frustration, but not between cognitive control and surgency, in predicting risk-taking behavior. These findings have important implications and suggest that the determinants of adolescent risk taking depend on the valence of the affective motivation for risk-taking behavior.
authors.affiliation: Monash University.|The University of Melbourne.|Melbourne Health.|The University of Melbourne and Melbourne Health.
authors.forename: George J
authors.identifier: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6178-4895
authors.initials: GJ
authors.lastname: Youssef
authors.affiliation: Deakin University.
authors.forename: Sarah
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Whittle
authors.affiliation: The University of Melbourne University of Oregon.
authors.forename: Nicholas B
authors.initials: NB
authors.lastname: Allen
authors.affiliation: Eastern Health and Monash University.
authors.forename: Dan I
authors.initials: DI
authors.lastname: Lubman
authors.affiliation: Deakin University.
authors.forename: Julian G
authors.initials: JG
authors.lastname: Simmons
authors.affiliation: Monash University.|The University of Melbourne.|Melbourne Health.
authors.forename: Murat
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Yücel
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000294:Adolescent Behavior / Q000502:physiology*; D000339:Affect / Q000502:physiology*; D004644:Emotions / Q000502:physiology*; D056344:Executive Function / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D009042:Motivation / Q000502:physiology*; D012309:Risk-Taking; D013694:Temperament / Q000502:physiology*