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Introduction: why study youth and risk? -- Setting the scene : growing up in denmark -- Looking back : "risk" in the sociology of youth -- Looking ahead : towards a new framework for analysing youth risk-taking as practice -- Being young : risk-taking practices and youth culture -- Coordinating practices : risk-taking and everyday life -- Embodying risk-taking : risk, embodiment and gender -- Contextualising risk : risk-taking, youth transitions and processes of social marginalisation -- Conclusion: routines of risk in young lives -- Routinisation -- Coordination -- Embodiment -- Social context -- Temporality -- A turn to practice: practical implications -- Appendix: the two empirical studies

Risk-taking is an important construct that correlates with many areas of study such as substance abuse, psychological disorders, life-span changes and military involvement. As risk- taking is such a broadly defined construct, there are many different means used to measure it. Ironically, there has never been a study done to see whether or not these measures are looking at the same type of risk-taking. Our study investigated the differences and similarities in three risk- taking measures, the Balloon Analogue Risk-Task (BART), the TCU Self-Rating Form and the Domain-Specific Risk-Taking scale (DOSPERT). We analyzed the results within each participant to see whether or not the same form of risk-taking was being evaluated by each measure. Our analysis shows that there are few correlations between the subscales of the BART, the TCU Self-Rating form and the DOSPERT, implying differences in the types of risk-taking being measured by each scale.

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