| Abstract |
Over the past decades, the social sciences have paid great attention to socially undesirable behavior among adolescents, such as substance use, unsafe sex, or reckless driving (for reviews, see e.g., Dahl, 2004; Reyna & Farley, 2006; Steinberg, 2007, 2008). Although the various disciplines differ in their specific foci, they typically rely on longitudinal surveys for data gathering, usually due to obvious ethical and practical constraints in the experimental manipulation of socially undesirable behaviors. However, the importance of longitudinal surveys for the study of socially undesirable behavior among adolescents is at odds with our knowledge about a pressing, but under-researched issue in that type of research, the question-behavior effect. |
http://ijpor.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2012/01/17/ijpor.edr052.short