Socio-Contextual Theory of
Adolescent Risk Taking

I. Introduction 
	A.  Model of adolescent risk taking
	B.  Limits of factors
	C.  Nature of Adolescent Risk Taking
	D.  Contextual Theories
		1.  Brofenbrenner
		2.  Vygotsky

II. Context of Adolescent risk taking
A.	Analysis of person-in-context
B.	Risk Taking in Contexts 
1.	Peer relations (Lightfoot, 1993)
2.	Peers groups (Lightfoot  & Gariepy, 1999)
3.	Narrative internalization (Lightfoot, 1993)

III. Research on Contextual Effects
2.	Microsystems
	1.  Peers (Gardner & Steinberg, 2005)
		2.  Parents (Fisher & Feldman , 1998)
B.	Mesosystems
	1.  Parents, Peers, & Schools (Scarmella et al., 2002)
C.	Exocystems
	1.  TV and sex (Collins et al., 2004)
D.	Macrosystems
	1.  Culture (Arnett & Jensen, 1993)