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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: Dev Psychol. 2012 Mar 5;48(5):1488–1500. doi: 10.1037/a0027502

Figure 1. Longitudinal changes in BAS scales from Time 1 to Time 2.

Figure 1

Early adolescents are ages 9 to 12 at Time 1 and ages 11–14 at Time 2. Late adolescents are ages 13–17 at Time 1 and ages 15 to 19 at Time 2. Young adults are ages 18 to 23 at Time 1 and ages 20 to 25 at Time 2. This patterning suggests an inverted-U-shaped trajectory for BAS Reward Responsiveness through adolescence.