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Showing 1 to 20 of 35 for “"Adolescent risk"”.
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'Anything's risky': a theoretical examination of adolescent risk decisions
… thesis examines how young people define and use risk in their everyday lives. A constructivist methodology was adopted and eleven focus group discussions were conducted in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Focus groups were utilised to capture the 'group effect' and how it relates to the construction of …
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Predicting Adolescent Risk-Taking And Goal-Oriented Behaviors: An Ecological Perspective
… individuals partake in the greatest amount of risk-taking behaviors. These behaviors often include having unsafe sex, drug and alcohol use, smoking and recklessness. On the other hand, goal oriented behaviors are also developing, although these have been less well studied. The current study …
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Moving in or Moving Down: Non -Linearities and Adolescent Risk Behavior
… percent poverty) are more likely to engage in adolescent risk behaviors than teens from neighborhoods with lower levels of poverty (<10 percent poverty). The results reveal statistically significant effects of neighborhood disadvantage on dropping out and teen childbearing at higher rates of …
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Adolescent Risk Behaviors: Considering the Influences and Interactions of Multiple Contexts
… of social contexts and social influences on adolescent development by examining contextual systems, such as peers, parents, school, and community. Participants included 14,548 middle school students comprised of 78.6% White, 5.4% Biracial, 4.8% Asian, 4.8% Black, and 3.6% Hispanic. …
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Impulsivity: Psychometrics of impulsivity in adolescents and links to adolescent risk behaviors
… was to extend the theory of impulsivity and adolescent risk behaviors. Impulsivity is commonly measured with the Barratt Impulsivity Scale (Fossati, Barratt, Acquarini, & Di Ceglie, 2002; Patton, Stanford, & Barratt, 1995). However, the psychometrics and performance of the measure is …
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Adolescent Risk Behaviors: Examining Latent Classes And Latent Transition Statuses In A Longitudinal Bahamian Sample
… a result, adolescence is a period of increased risk taking behaviors. Prevention of risk behaviors would benefit from early intervention prior to the onset of these risk behaviors. Unfortunately, it is difficult to identify those youth who may be most at risk. Risk-taking adolescents may choose …
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Links Between Parental Responses to Adolescent Distress and Adolescent Risk Behavior: The Mediating Role of Thought/Emotion Suppression
… novel inter- and intrapersonal predictors of adolescent risk behavior. Aim 1 of this study was to examine how supportive and unsupportive parental responses to adolescents' negative emotions relate to adolescent substance use and sexual behavior, and to test whether the tendency to suppress …
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Ages of Engagement in Risk Taking and Self-Harm: An Investigation of the Dual Systems Model of Adolescent Risk Taking
<p>Risk taking (RT) and self-harm (SH) are clinically, conceptually, and empirically<br />related, yet separate constructs, which occur most frequently during adolescence. The current study utilized retrospective reports of college students to determine reported ages of engagement in RT and SH …
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Deep play, urban space, adolescent place: a multi-sited study of the effects of settings on adolescent risk/reward behavior
… on the play behavior of youth normalizes adolescent behavior in public space as transgressional, resistant, and in need of social control. The dissertation counters this trend by looking to see if physical qualities, peer effects, and neighborhood context of settings play a deeper role in …
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The Effect of Peer Presence on Risk Taking Behavior Among Late Adolescents
… study used an experimental method to examine risk-taking in a simulated environment involving risky driving behaviors. The study examined the effects of peer presence on risk-taking behavior among late adolescents and explored a potential mechanism of said effect, emotional arousal. Given the …
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Risk-Taking Behaviour and School Injury in Canadian Adolescents
Background: Adolescent school injuries are common and often result in serious consequences. Problem risk behaviours are known causes of injury and interventions have targeted these independent behaviours with modest success in the past. Although there is some research investigating relationships …
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Exploring Contemporary Risk-Taking in Canadian Adolescents
This thesis explored contemporary risk-taking within the Canadian adolescent population. It involved two quantitative studies and one qualitative study. Quantitatively, it involved a psychometric analysis to develop and validate new adolescent risk-taking scales focused on engagement in …
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The epidemiology of risk behaviour of high-school students in the Cape Peninsula, South Africa
… To document: (1) the prevalence of selected risk behaviours of high-school students in the Cape Peninsula; (2) whether the notion of a syndrome of adolescent risk behaviour is valid for this setting, and to investigate whether suicidal behaviour and behaviour exposing oneself to injury should …
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Integrating emotion and cognition in the pathway from adolescent religiousness to risk taking
… has demonstrated an association between higher adolescent religiousness and lower risk taking via higher self-regulation. However, the present study uniquely sought to elucidate whether particular dimensions of self-regulation (i.e., emotion regulation, effortful control, and executive function) …
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Father-son relationship quality and associated adolescent risks
… protective role they play in the prevention of adolescent risk behaviours. Studies have often investigated parental relationships and their influence on adolescent risk behaviours but rarely the specific role of the adolescents’ relationships with their fathers or father figures in prevention of …
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Future Orientation as a Mediating Factor in the Relation Between Family Instability and Adolescent Problem Behavior: A Moderated Mediation Model
Adolescent delinquency represents a significant threat to the health and future of developing persons. Due to the important implications of adolescent problem behaviors, it is essential that we understand the complex mechanisms in the life and mind of a developing person that may lead to these …
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Substance use in adolescents and young adults: Interactions of drugs of abuse and the role of parents and peers in early onset of substance use
… adolescence and young adulthood are well-known risk factors for subsequent substance-related harms. A better understanding of adolescent and young adult substance use behaviors and their correlates might help develop new prevention programs. This thesis aims to explore patterns of use and …
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Parental Monitoring of Adolescents by Ethnically and Economically Diverse Mothers
… based on ethnicity, income, and age of adolescent were surveyed about their beliefs about the importance of monitoring strategies and use of monitoring strategies. Results suggested that African American mothers believe more in solicitation and less in giving adolescents a lot of freedom …
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Neuroeconomic Predictors of Adolescent Risky Decision-Making
… Center for Disease Control, approximately 70% of adolescent deaths in the United States are due to risky behaviors such as reckless driving and risky sexual behavior (Kann et al., 2016). In order to better understand what drives adolescent risk-taking, the current studies utilized an …
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