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Commentary: Risk taking, impulsivity, and externalizing problems in adolescent development – commentary on Crone et al. 2016
Author(s) -
Nigg Joel T.,
Nagel Bonnie J.
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
journal of child psychology and psychiatry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.652
H-Index - 211
eISSN - 1469-7610
pISSN - 0021-9630
DOI - 10.1111/jcpp.12539
Subject(s) - impulsivity , psychology , context (archaeology) , psychosocial , developmental psychology , psychotherapist , paleontology , biology
This commentary supports several important themes. These include the value in seeing risk taking as multicomponential (affective vs. deliberative risk taking), the importance of evaluating risk taking in relation to outcome, the necessity of expanding the brain networks studied in relation to risk taking, and the crucial interactions of risk taking with psychosocial context. We argue that more careful distinctions are needed between risk taking and different forms of impulsivity. Clearer differentiation of these constructs and their study together in brain imaging studies will clarify components of adolescent development and risk for externalizing behavior problems.