Adolescent Health-Risk Behavior and Community Disorder

Adolescent Health-Risk Behavior and Community Disorder

BACKGROUND Various forms of community disorder are associated with health outcomes but little is known about how dynamic context where an adolescent spends time relates to her health-related behaviors. OBJECTIVE Assess whether exposure to contexts associated with crime (as a marker of community disorder) correlates with self-reported health-related behaviors among adolescent girls. METHODS ...

Adolescent health risk behavior: when do pediatric psychologists break confidentiality?

OBJECTIVE To determine the circumstances under which pediatric psychologists believe it is ethical to break confidentiality when presented with adolescent health risk behavior. METHOD Members of the Society of Pediatric Psychology (N = 92) responded to a survey containing a vignette about an adolescent patient engaging in health-compromising behaviors. Participants rated the degree to which i...

Community structural instability, anomie, imitation and adolescent suicidal behavior.

The current study examines the contextual effects of community structural characteristics, as well as the mediating role of key social mechanisms, on youth suicidal behavior in Iceland. We argue that the contextual influence of community structural instability on youth suicidal behavior should be mediated by weak attachment to social norms and values (anomie), and contact with suicidal others (...

Peer Influences on Adolescent Risk Behavior

M.T. Bardo et al. (eds.), Inhibitory Control and Drug Abuse Prevention: From Research to Translation, DOI 10.1007/978-1-4419-1268-8_11, © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2011 Abstract Moving beyond studies of age differences in “cool” cognitive processes related to risk perception and reasoning, new approaches to understanding adolescent risk behavior highlight the influence of “hot” socia...

Risky business: exploring adolescent risk-taking behavior.