Title: Risky Behavior - an overview | ScienceDirect Topics
Headings: Risky Behavior
Risky Behavior
When adolescent offline risks behaviors go online
Risky behaviors
The Terror Management Underpinnings of Risky Behavior
Abstract
Peers Over Parents? How Peer Relationships Influence Dating Violence
Research on Peer Deviancy and Dating Experiences and Abuse
Evolutionary theory
The adaptive nature of risky behaviors
Disruptions of mood: positive and negative affect, depressive disorders, and bipolar disorders
Depressive symptoms and disorders
Sexual addiction
9.4.1 As a problem syndrome
Challenging missions: vulnerable veterans leaving the armed forces and promising avenues to support them
Negative coping strategies
Young Drivers
3.5.2 Perceptions and Decision Making with Regard to Risk
Measurement methods
Sex
Sensation seeking and risk-taking
Abstract

Content: In other words, “make hay while the sun shines” is a good guide if one is not too sure there will be a long, well-resourced future ( Ellis et al., 2012 ). Conditions that signal an unpredictable future such as the death, addiction, or incarceration of many young people in the community, chaotic neighborhood conditions, frequent bouts of parental unemployment accompanied by declines in food and other basic resources, unstable parental relationships, or erratic parental behavior can all create an adaptive approach that motivates certain types of risky behaviors ( Belsky, Schlomer, & Ellis, 2012 ). Against this backdrop, adolescence is viewed as a key transition in the path toward becoming a reproductively successful adult. “ A major function of adolescence is to attain reproductive status-to develop the physical and social competencies needed to gain access to a new and highly contested biological resource: sex and ultimately reproduction.” ( Ellis et al., 2012, p. 601 ). As such, one can view adolescence as a time when there is motivation to increase one's status as a desirable mate and to improve mate attraction by controlling resources and establishing peer dominance. Depending on the context, engaging in risky behaviors can signal bravery and enhance social status.