The Influence Of Different Reward Backgrounds On Risk Decision-Making Of Adolescents

As a key period in life,adolescence has always been the focus of researchers,among which the risk decision-making of adolescents is one of the hotspots.The research shows that the risk decision-making behavior of individuals making decisions for themselves and others is different,but the conclusions are different.This study examines the impact of different roles of reward and decision-making on adolescents.Experiment 1 used 2(subjects: adolescents / adults)× 2(decision maker role: self /others)× 2(monetary reward: virtual / real)mixed experiment to investigate whether the impact of decision-making roles and monetary reward methods on adolescent and adult risk decision-making is consistent.The results show that:(1)under the virtual money reward,teenagers and adults have the same risk tendency: making more conservative decisions for themselves and more risky decisions for others;(2)Under the real money reward,teenagers and adults have different risk tendencies: teenagers are more conservative in making decisions for themselves and more risky in making decisions for others;Adults are more adventurous in making decisions for themselves and more conservative in making decisions for others;(3)The risk decision-making score of adults was significantly higher than that of adolescents;(4)the risk decision-making score of teenagers under real money reward is higher than that of virtual money reward;Adults’ risk decision-making score under real money reward is lower than that under virtual money reward.On the basis of Experiment 1,experiment 2 adopted 2(decision-maker role: self / others)× 2(reward type: money / Society),to further study the difference of the impact of social reward and money reward on Teenagers’ risk decision-making,in order to explore whether teenagers’ risk tendency is consistent under the background of money reward and social reward.The results show that:(1)with money reward,teenagers are more conservative in making decisions for themselves and more risky in making decisions for others;Under social rewards,teenagers make more risky decisions for themselves and more conservative decisions for others;(2)Social rewards can change the risk tendency of teenagers to make decisions for others.To sum up,this study draws the following conclusions: first,social reward is more valuable to adolescents’ risk decision-making behavior than monetary reward;Secondly,real and virtual money has different effects on different groups’ risk decision-making behavior:real money reward makes teenagers more adventurous and adults more conservative;Finally,the impact of the role of decision-maker on Teenagers’ risk decision-making is consistent with the theory of risk social value.