The Adolescent Stress Response to a Naturalistic Driving Stressor
Description:
The proposed study examined the role of anxiety and risk-taking in driving performance in adolescents. In addition to examining the sample as a whole, gender differences were assessed given earlier reports from our laboratory and others indicating that males and females differ with respect to risky behaviors to driving performance and anxiety. Adolescents' subjective and physiological responses to a driving simulator task were assessed. Anxiety was measured via self report and salivary cortisol…
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Date:
August 2000
Creator:
Wingo, Mary
Partner:
UNT Libraries