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Future negative time perspective and risk-taking behaviors among chinese adolescents: A longitudinal moderated mediation model

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The association between future time perspective and risk-taking behaviors has received extensive empirical attention. However, the underlying mechanisms that link future negative time perspective (FNTP) to risk-taking behaviors are complex and not well-understood. To address this gap, we adopted a longitudinal design that examined the association between FNTP and risk-taking behaviors, and the roles of coping styles and self-control in this association among 581 Chinese adolescents (age range = 12–18 years, 46.3% females). Results showed that FNTP at wave 1 was associated with risk-taking behavior at wave 3 via positive and negative coping styles at wave 2. Furthermore, adolescents with low self-control and more negative coping strategies preferred to engage in risk-taking behaviors as compared to their high self-control counterparts. Taken together, these research findings underscore the importance of considering the influence of the FNTP on adolescents’ risk-taking behaviors and provide implications for developing preventions and interventions for reducing adolescents’ risk-taking behaviors.

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This work was supported a grant by National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 31800938) to Kai Dou, a grant from Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province (2018A030313406) to Kai Dou, a grant by the Key Research Items from Guangzhou University (YK2020025) to Kai Dou, and a grant from China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (No. 2018M643038) to Yue Liang.

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Kai Dou: Conceptualization, Writing - review & editing, Resources, Funding Acquisition; Ming-Chen Zhang: Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing - original draft; Lin-Xin Wang: Methodology, Visualization; Yue Liang: Data curation, Methodology, Supervision and Validation.

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Dou, K., Zhang, MC., Wang, LX. et al. Future negative time perspective and risk-taking behaviors among chinese adolescents: A longitudinal moderated mediation model. Curr Psychol 42, 28381–28393 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-022-03808-2

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