PREVENTIVE ACTIVITY AS A FACTOR DEVIANT PREVENTION BEHAVIOR OF ADOLESCENTS

Socially Deviant Behavior

(Author) A. self-administered questionnaire was used to'compare Tselected driving, personality, and psychosocial variables 'of 306 convicted male drunk drivers with those of 289 alcoholics and 269 controls. She drunk driver group fell between the other,groups on many parameters but resembled the control groUp on as many others. While some 40% of the drunk drivers appeareA to be alcoholics, they...

Psychosocial factors as determinants of littering prevention behavior

This study investigated psychosocial factors as determinants of littering prevention behavior among residents of Ilorin, Kwara state, Nigeria.  The independent variables are; personality traits, gender, Residential characteristics, Educational level, Age and Organizational factors while dependent variable is littering prevention behavior. Descriptive survey was utilized for research design and ...

A Survey on Physical Activity Determinants as Osteoporosis Preventive Behavior Among Pre-university Female Students of Rafsanjan in 2017: A Descriptive Study

Background and Objectives: Increasing physical activity, as a health issue, especially among girls, is one of the recommendations of the World Health Organization for the osteoporosis prevention. The present study  was designed and implemented with the aim of determining the causes of physical activity among students regarding osteoporosis based on health belief model (HBM). Materials and Meth...

Domestic Violence and Deviant Behavior

The two faces of adolescents' success with peers: adolescent popularity, social adaptation, and deviant behavior.

This study assessed the hypothesis that popularity in adolescence takes on a twofold role, marking high levels of concurrent adaptation but predicting increases over time in both positive and negative behaviors sanctioned by peer norms. Multimethod, longitudinal data, on a diverse community sample of 185 adolescents (13 to 14 years), addressed these hypotheses. As hypothesized, popular adolesce...