Abstract
Among the different behavioural and affective outward signs coming out during adolescence, sensation seeking has a prominent role. Indeed, consumption behaviour for (tobacco, alcohol, drugs) and risk taking behaviour (non protected sexual intercourse, dangerous mopped driving …) as well as the practise of gliding or extreme sports (stake board, bungee jumping, …) can be analysed through the sensation they yield. After considering sensation seeking like a personality dimension (Zuckerman), we'll analyse this need for intense sensation bearing in mind the adolescence process. We'll theorise that the sensations seeking could be a form of adaptation to intense excitation linked with the emergence of puberty hen we'll discuss more particularly about the role of the sensation in the behaviour of stimulation, (drug taking, risky sport practising …) in the light of solving of identity problems.
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