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Risk taking across the life span: A comparison of self-report and behavioral measures of risk taking
JournalArticle (Originalarbeit in einer wissenschaftlichen Zeitschrift)
 
ID 3672405
Author(s) Mamerow, Loreen; Frey, Renato; Mata, Rui
Author(s) at UniBasel Mata, Rui
Frey, Renato
Tisdall, Loreen
Year 2016
Title Risk taking across the life span: A comparison of self-report and behavioral measures of risk taking
Journal Psychology and Aging
Volume 31
Number 7
Pages / Article-Number 711-723
Abstract Aging has long been thought to be associated with changes in risk-taking propensity. But do different measures converge in showing similar age-related patterns? We conducted a study to investigate the convergent validity of different self-report and behavioral assessments of risk taking across adulthood (N = 902). Individuals between 18 and 90 years of age answered a self-report item and completed 2 incentivized behavioral tasks: a gambles task and the Balloon Analogue Risk Task. Our results indicate that although all measures show some patterns indicative of an age reduction in risk taking, the correlations between measures are small. Moreover, age differences in behavioral paradigms seem to emerge as a function of specific task characteristics, such as learning and computational demands. We discuss the importance of understanding how specific task characteristics engender age differences in risk taking and the need for future work that disentangles task demands from true age-related changes in risk-taking propensity. (PsycINFO Database Record
Publisher American Psychological Association
ISSN/ISBN 0882-7974 ; 1939-1498
edoc-URL http://edoc.unibas.ch/45115/
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Digital Object Identifier DOI 10.1037/pag0000124
PubMed ID http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27684105
ISI-Number WOS:000387998400007
Document type (ISI) Journal Article
 
   

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