According to _____, adolescents and emerging adults engage in high-risk behaviors to cope with their fear of death.

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Terror management theory posits that individuals are motivated to engage in behaviors that uphold their cultural worldview and self-esteem as a way to manage their fear of death. Adolescents and emerging adults may engage in high-risk behaviors as a way to prove their invincibility and deny their own mortality. The other options (A, C, D) do not address this particular explanation for high-risk behaviors in youth.

According to _____, Adolescents and Emerging Adults Engage in High-Risk