Abstract
Methods: Children initially completed an "intentions to risk take" task. Following administration of several questionnaires they later participated in an actual risk taking task.
Results: At all ages, for both boys and girls, intentions to risk take was highly positively correlated with actual risk taking. When discrepancies occurred these were usually of minimal magnitude.
Conclusions: Tasks that tap children's intentions to risk take can serve as proxy indicators of children's actual risk taking.
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