Teen Expectations for Significant Life Events

• Published in: Public opinion quarterly Vol. 64; no. 2; pp. 189 - 205
• Main Authors: FISCHHOFF, BARUCH, PARKER, ANDREW M., BRUIN, WÄNDI BRUINE DE, DOWNS, JULIE, PALMGREN, CLAIRE, DAWES, ROBYN, MANSKI, CHARLES F.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Oxford University Press 01.07.2000; University of Chicago Press; Public Opinion Quarterly, Inc; Oxford Publishing Limited (England)
• Subjects: Adolescents; Age; Attitudes; Bachelors degrees; Crime victims; Criminal arrests; Criminal statistics; Decision Making; Employment; Estimates; Expectation; Fertility; Health care statistics; Hispanics; Jails; Life Events; Mortality; Probabilities; Probability; Public health; Research Note; Risk; Social Perception; Statistical analysis; Studies; Teenagers; U.S.A; Uncertainty; Youth; United States > US

An adolescent's ability to make effective decisions requires that he or she be able to accurately assess the probability that uncertain events will occur. This ability is referred to as risk perception, a skill that plays an important role in psychological theories of adolescent behavior &...