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Showing 1 to 20 of 40 for “"Risk Taking Behaviors"”.
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Personality And Risk-Taking Behaviors In Emerging Adulthood
<p>ABSTRACT</p> <p>PERSONALITY AND RISK-TAKING BEHAVIORS IN EMERGING ADULTHOOD</p> <p>by</p> <p> </p> <p>AGNES WARD</p> <p> </p> <p>December 2010</p> <p> </p> <p>Advisor: Dr. Stephen B. Hillman</p> <p> </p> <p>Major: Educational Psychology </p> <p> </p> <p>Degree: Doctor of Philosophy </p> <p> </p> …
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Personal And Social Factors In Risk-Taking Behaviors Of Emerging Adults
… and other drugs and participation in high-risk sexual activity and the association between those behaviors and personal and social factors such as sensation seeking, peer influence, perceived general resistance to peer influence, perceived self-efficacy to resist risky behavior, and emotion …
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Risk Taking Behaviors In Emerging Adults And Peer, Sibling & Parental Relationships
… than younger and older cohorts to engage in such risky behaviors. However, research on the outcomes of emerging adults and their relations with peers, parents, and siblings is less conclusive. The purpose of this study was to examine the association between emerging adults' perceptions of peers', …
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Sexual Risk Taking Behaviors Among African American Adolescent Mothers: An Ecological Perspective
… American women of childbearing age are at high risk for Human Immunodeficency Virus (HIV) exposure and Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS). Using an ecological perspective, this study examined the influence of several individual, familial, and neighborhood factors on the sexual risk …
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Intra- and inter-personal predictors of posttraumatic stress disorder and sexual risk-taking behaviors
<p>Sexual risk-taking, while common in college culture, can increase the risk of sexual victimization. Nearly 20% of college women have been sexually assaulted (Krebs et al., 2009). Moreover, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) has been associated with sexual risk-taking (Johnson & Johnson, 2013). …
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An Examination of the Relationship between Spirituality and Religion and Selected Risk-Taking Behaviors in College Underclassmen
… between spirituality and religion and selected risk taking behaviors in college underclassmen. Presently in the published literature, there are no studies that examined the relationship between levels of spirituality and religion and their interaction with select risk-taking behaviors, while …
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An exploration of the relationship between parenting styles and health risk-taking behaviors among early phase adolescents
… styles, adolescent self-esteem, and health risk behaviors. The sample consisted of 343 middle school students from Harrisonburg, Virginia who completed a questionnaire consisting of three major components: parenting styles, self-esteem, and health risk behaviors. The health risk behaviors …
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The Relationship between Unintentional Injury Risk and Risk Taking Behaviors: The Effects of Impulsivity/Overactivity and Inattention, Grade, and Gender in School-Age Children
… grade, and gender to unintentional injury risk and risk-taking behaviors among primary school-age students. The participants included the parents, guardians, and teachers of 109 primary school-age students. The students represented 1st - 3rd grades (n= 61) and 4th - 5th grades (n= 48). …
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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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Perceptions of Childhood Relation with Parents Related to Current Functioning
… current religious orientation, and current risk-taking behaviors. The study also sought to develop models that would predict risk-taking behavior based on the other variables.</p> <p>At an eastern university, 174 students (79 males) completed the Test of Self-Conscious Affect, Religious Life …
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Aggressive mating strategies in young adolescent girls
… pathway in which they utilize aggression and risky behaviors in their mating strategies, but there is little research on adolescent girls' use of aggression and risk-taking in mating. This study hypothesized that ethnically diverse, young adolescent girls nominated consistently as flirters …
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Ethnic Identity, Gay Identity and Sexual Sensation Seeking: HIV Risk-taking Predictors Among Men of Color Who Have Sex with Men
… gay identity, sexual sensation seeking, and HIV risk-taking behaviors among 302 men of color recruited from gay bars, bathhouses, community agencies, and the 1998 United States Conference on AIDS. The sample included 24% African American, 28% Latino, 25% Asian/ Pacific Islander, 19% Caucasian, 1% …
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The Benefits of a School Leadership Program for Students
… including a leadership class, reduce the risk-taking behaviors of adolescents and promote school connectedness. In addition, researchers have discovered a correlation between school connectedness and success in later life, including but not limited to: higher GPA, increased likeliness of …
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What It Means to Be a Man: Masculinity, Sexual Risk-Taking, and HIV Testing Behavior among Heterosexual African American Males
… in part attributed to higher levels of sexual risk-taking including unprotected sex, sex with multiple partners, and sex with high-risk partners. African American adult men get tested at almost the same rate (52%) as African American women 53% (CDC, 2007). HIV testing is important to the …
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The Role of Lifestyles and Routine Activities on Youth Sexual Assault and Intimate Partner Victimization
… their time in high school. Studies examining the risk-factors for victimization among this population report that youth are more likely to be victimized when they engage in behaviors such as drinking, drug use, and risky sexual practices (see Basile, Black, Simon, Arias, Brener & Saltzman, 2006). …
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A father's supportive presence: Understanding how fathers influence children's developmental outcomes
… construct a theoretical model by which fathering behaviors influence later psychosocial outcomes, particularly impulse control and risky behaviors during adolescence. For boys, supportive mothering behaviors had a greater influence on impulse control than supportive fathering behaviors. The …
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Connected strangers : manipulating social perceptions to study trust
… utility theory, trust-based decisions and risk-taking behaviors in social contexts.
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Behavioral disinhibition and cortisol reactivity as a function of psychosocial stress and personality in adolescents
… of adolescence is characterized by impulsive and risk-taking behaviors, explanations for the range of behavioral disinhibition across adolescents that include biological, personality, and environmental factors have not been fully elucidated. Additionally, these factors may affect changes in stress …
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The development and validation of the appearance satisfaction questionnaire - the first culturally appropriate measure for body image in black women
… it aimed to assess additional maladaptive behaviors and effects of poor body image in Black women (i.e., sexual risk taking behavior and acculturative stress). A total of 189 Black women were recruited through the university and snowball sampling. An exploratory factor analysis was …
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LGB youth's risky sexual behavior: protective factors and gender differences
This study extends research on risky sexual behavior among LGB youth and provides a new perspective on how protective factors and gender differences may influence LGB youth’s experiences with sexual risk-taking behavior. Consistent with previous research on differences in risky sexual behavior …
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