Many of the risk behaviours in adolescents were shown to be related to the adolescent's family of origin, home environment and parent-child relationships. Also, the protective effects of family and school connectedness as well as increased religiosity noted in studies from the United States were ...
Finally, declining tobacco and alcohol use may have suppressed adolescent cannabis use (and perhaps other risk behaviours), but evidence for such a cascade is equivocal. We conclude that the causal factors behind the great decline in adolescent risk behaviours are multiple. While broad contextual ...
Overall behaviours changed towards 'safer' sex behaviours (intent-to-use and using condoms, communicating with partner/parents about sex/condoms/STDs) with time (P<0.05). Proportion of students with complete correct knowledge of STDs/HIV increased to 88% at time 4 from 80% at baseline after ...
increased risk-taking behaviors, and impaired judgment, and may increase vulnerability to development of manic symptoms,39as well as decreased likelihood of help seeking. The increased risk of self-harm in those with CUD might be associated with negative associations of cannabis with mood and increas...
Helping parents, educators and teens make sense of technology and high-risk behaviours Civil discourse in difficult times is challenging but essential. Here are some tools. A practical guide to fostering dialogue on difficult subjects The atrocities of October 7th, the kidnapping of Israeli hostages ...
/Contribution to the Field Overall, it was found that Canadian parents have a great deal of influence over their children's risk-taking, through their behaviours and home environments. These results support the need to work with parents around their influence over their teens' behaviours. ...
risk factor for drug and alcohol addiction among teens. Behaviours like drug use, drinking alcohol, sex and gambling have a chemical payoff, at least in the short-term. But they quickly need more and more of whatever it is to get the same high, and therein lies the dark spiral of ...
Despite widespreadInternet safety training, data reveal that risky online behaviours are commonplace amongyoung people. To date there has been little research investigating the psychologicalmechanisms underpinning these risky online behaviours. Drawing on fuzzy trace theory, we examined if adolescents' risky...
In analyses examining the three protective factors separately, school attachment was a signi cant moderator of the association between risk exposure and problem behaviours for younger teens (ages 14 to 15) but not older teens. The other two protective factors (family support and self-ef cacy) ...
adolescentrisktaking青少年冒险injury THEFACTSWhoisanadolescent?Perspectivesregardingtheagerangeof‘adolescents’varyfromstudytostudy,oftenstartingintheearlyteensandendinginthelateteens.Thisfactsheetfocusesonyoungpeopleaged10to16years.Injuryduringadolescence•InjuryistheleadingcauseofdeathanddisabilityamongAustralia’syo...