Why Do Boys Engage in More Risk Taking Than Girls? The Role of Attributions, Beliefs, and Risk Appraisals. Morrongiello, B. A. & Rennie, H. Journal of Pediatric Psychology, 23(1):33–43, 1998.
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Objective: Assessed for age and sex differences in school-age children's reporting of injury-risk behaviors, ratings of injury-risk in various play situations, attributions for injuries (self, other, bad luck), and beliefs about their vulnerability to injury in comparison to their peers (more, less, comparable vulnerability). Methods: We used a structured interview and drawings that depicted children showing wary or confident facial expressions when engaged in injury-risk play activities. Results: Children's reported risk taking could be predicted from their risk appraisals, beliefs about the likelihood of injury, and attributions of injuries to bad luck, and these factors resulted in 80% correct assignment of cases by sex in a discriminant analysis. The wary affect display resulted in higher injury-risk ratings than the confident display, with this effect being greater for girls than boys. Conclusions: Cognitive-based factors differentiate boys from girls and contribute to sex differences in children's injury-risk behaviors.
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	title = {Why {Do} {Boys} {Engage} in {More} {Risk} {Taking} {Than} {Girls}? {The} {Role} of {Attributions}, {Beliefs}, and {Risk} {Appraisals}},
	volume = {23},
	issn = {0146-8693, 1465-735X},
	shorttitle = {Why {Do} {Boys} {Engage} in {More} {Risk} {Taking} {Than} {Girls}?},
	url = {https://academic.oup.com/jpepsy/article-lookup/doi/10.1093/jpepsy/23.1.33},
	doi = {10.1093/jpepsy/23.1.33},
	abstract = {Objective: Assessed for age and sex differences in school-age children's reporting of injury-risk behaviors, ratings of injury-risk in various play situations, attributions for injuries (self, other, bad luck), and beliefs about their vulnerability to injury in comparison to their peers (more, less, comparable vulnerability).
Methods: We used a structured interview and drawings that depicted children showing wary or confident facial expressions when engaged in injury-risk play activities.
Results: Children's reported risk taking could be predicted from their risk appraisals, beliefs about the likelihood of injury, and attributions of injuries to bad luck, and these factors resulted in 80\% correct assignment of cases by sex in a discriminant analysis. The wary affect display resulted in higher injury-risk ratings than the confident display, with this effect being greater for girls than boys.
Conclusions: Cognitive-based factors differentiate boys from girls and contribute to sex differences in children's injury-risk behaviors.},
	language = {en},
	number = {1},
	urldate = {2019-09-27},
	journal = {Journal of Pediatric Psychology},
	author = {Morrongiello, Barbara A. and Rennie, Heather},
	year = {1998},
	pages = {33--43},
}

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