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Showing 1 to 20 of 51 for “"risky behavior"”.
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Three Essays on Economics of Risky Behavior
… who consume pornography more likely to engage in risky sexual behaviors? Using longitudinal data from the National Study of Youth and Religion (NSYR) and an individual fixed effects strategy, chapter one investigates the relationship between pornography use among 13- to 23-year-olds and a range of …
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Rate changes In risky behavior & the role of sibling influence
… adolescent's likelihood of engaging in certain risky behaviors. For the purpose of this study these behaviors include things like drug use, sexual activity and violent or antisocial offenses. The initial study found a trend implicating that adolescents with older siblings more likely to engage …
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Risky Behavior as Motivated Emotion Regulation: A Mixed-Method Approach
<p>Engaging in risky health behaviors is a ubiquitous human experience that often marks developmental progression from adolescence into adulthood. While much previous research has framed risky behaviors in terms of negative legal, social, and public health consequences, less empirical work has been …
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Risky Behavior, Urgency, And Anonymity: What Sex, Drugs, And Eating Disorders Have In Common
<p>A variety of risky behaviors have been found to be related to the tendency to act rashly in the presence of strong emotions, a trait known as urgency. However, whether this extends to a multitude of risky behaviors and what other traits may modify this risk, is unknown. Because individuals may …
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Do condom and needle exchange provision in prisons reduce risky behavior and HIV transmission? A systematic literature review
… occurs and is linked to ongoing high risk behavior such as injection drug use associated with sharing of injecting equipment, unsafe sexual activity and tattooing. However, HIV prevention initiatives involving condom and needle exchange programs have not been widely implemented in prisons …
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How the quality of the early mother-infant relationship Influences decision making in risky situations later in life
… executive function as predictors of adolescent risky behavior. Additionally, the present study examined how attachment disorganization and executive function may differentially predict adolescent risky behavior for males and females. Measures of executive function, mother-infant attachment, …
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Latent Class Analysis of Health Risk Behaviors Among Survivors of Childhood Adversities
This study examined the clustering of health risk behaviors among young adults who have experienced adverse childhood experiences (ACE). Data were collected from young adults attending a four-year university in the Midwest using online surveys. Results from a Latent Class Analysis (LCA) indicated …
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Making Information Count: Highlighting Discrepancies Between Risk Perception and Risk Communication in Combined Description/Experience Settings
… is how to modify risk perception and risky behavior among people who have previously engaged in a targeted risky behavior, given that research suggests that they are more strongly influenced by their personal experience of the probabilities associated with the risk than by descriptive …
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A qualitative approach to understanding the study abroad experience
… transformational learning, and alcohol use and risky behavior, in regards to study abroad. The interviews were transcribed and content analysis was used to analyze the data. The study found that all students gained cultural learning and transformation learning, but to varying extents. This …
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The Influence of Dad: An Investigation of Adolescent Females' Perceived Closeness with Fathers and Risky Behaviors
Substance use and sexual behaviors are prominent college campus activities, often co-occurring. An evolutionary perspective illuminates the unique impact of father-daughter relationships on substance use and sexual risk-taking. Female adolescents who experience early physical separation from their …
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The Influence of Dad: An Investigation of Adolescent Females' Perceived Closeness with Fathers and Risky Behaviors
Substance use and sexual behaviors are prominent college campus activities, often co-occurring. An evolutionary perspective illuminates the unique impact of father-daughter relationships on substance use and sexual risk-taking. Female adolescents who experience early physical separation from their …
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The effects of grammatical structure and feelings of power on risk behavior prevention
… member is designated to help the other change a risky behavior. In two studies, participants were primed to feel powerful or powerless via a writing task and then matched by assigned power condition to act as the provider (powerful) or recipient (powerless) of help regarding binge drinking. Study …
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Neuroeconomic Predictors of Adolescent Risky Decision-Making
… 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 interdisciplinary approach, which combined behavioral economic …
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Peer Influences on Risk-taking in Middle Childhood
… peer activities, but peer influences on risky behavior in preadolescence remain under-investigated. We examined peer context effects on reported risk-taking, identified predictors of peer influence, and compared peer influence in high- and low-social-functioning groups. Forty-one boys …
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The freshman experience
… to investigate if change in sexual risk-taking behavior between high school and college can be predicted as a function of the interaction of person and situation traits. College, conceptualized as a backspace (situation) construct, and personality traits (sensation-seeking, neuroticism, …
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The Relationship Between Adolescent Suicidality and Engagement in Risky Behaviors
… to examine whether the level of engagement in risky behavior predicts an increase in total suicidal ideation above and beyond other well-known risk factors (i.e., family functioning, gender, and problem-solving skills). The second objective was to investigate whether different types of risky …
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Determining Knowledge Gaps in Natural Disaster Preparedness: An Exploratory Analysis of Socioeconomic Variables and Response Quality
… communication barriers affecting response behavior through the lens of the knowledge gap hypothesis. Survey data from 20 residents were analyzed using an objective socioeconomic status (OSES) score based on household income and highest level of education. Results indicate that while most …
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Online Health Education Curriculum Evaluation: Differential Findings Among College Students
… college student alcohol consumption and related behaviors. Using existing data from 225 higher education organizations and 23,127 individuals manipulated into a clustered randomly assigned post-test only evaluation design the broad-based delivery of alcohol education through the world-wide web is …
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The Feasibility, Acceptability, and Effectiveness of a School-Based Motivational Interviewing Intervention for Adolescent Females
… therapeutic approach shown to elicit behavior change in adolescents engaged in risky behavior. MI is used to increase the individuals feeling of self-efficacy and outcome expectancy. Female adolescents engaged in substance use, sexual activity and identified as academically disengaged …
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THE SILENT SPREAD: A LOOK AT CORRELATES OF HIV PERCEPTIONS & SELF-REPORTED BEHAVIORS
… correlates of HIV perceptions and self-reported behaviors among a sample of Ethiopian U.S. residents and their perceptions about HIV. There were four significant positive correlations with number of sexual partners: substance use, r = .217, p < .01; frequency of protection use, r = .305, p < .01; …
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