Risk Behaviour in Adolescence Patterns Determinants and Consequences 1st Edition by Matthias Richter ISBN 3531173367 978-3531173368

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ISBN 10: 3531173367
ISBN 13:  978-3531173368
Author: Matthias Richter

Adolescents are generally thought to be healthy. However, adolescent risk behaviours, such as substance use, a poor diet or early sexual activity, are topics that keep generating high academic and media interest. Despite considerable explanatory efforts, not much is known yet about the proximate and distal determinants as well as the psychosocial and health-related consequences of risk behaviour in adolescence. The study is among the first to systematically examine the antecedents and consequences of risk behaviour from a comparative perspective over time and across countries. Matthias Richter presents findings from several empirical studies and extends current theoretical and empirical knowledge on adolescent risk behaviour.
This book is valuable reading for academics, practitioners and policy makers in a range of disciplines: sociology, psychology, educational sciences, public health and nursing sciences, with a special focus on adolescent risk behaviour.

Risk Behaviour in Adolescence Patterns Determinants and Consequences 1st Table of contents:

1 Introduction

1.1 Background

1.2 Aims of the study and research questions

1.3 Structure and content of the volume

2 Conceptual framework

2.1 What is risk behaviour?

2.2 Risk behaviour in adolescence: a general framework

2.2.1 Risk behaviour as reaction to developmental tasks

2.2.2 Functions of risk behaviour

2.2.3 Integrative model of risk behaviour

2.3 Determinants of adolescent risk behaviour

2.3.1 Age and gender

2.3.2 Socio-economic status

2.3.3 Peer and school context

2.4 Consequences of risk behaviour

3 Material and methods

3.1 Research context

3.2 The “Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (HBSC)” study

3.3 Data collection procedures and samples

3.3.1 International data

3.3.2 German data

3.3.3 Northrhine-Westphalian data

3.4 Instrument and variables

3.4.1 Risk behaviour

3.4.2 Parental and ‘own’ socio-economic status

Family affluence

Parental occupation

Type of school

Academic achievement

3.4.3 Peer and school factors

School factors

Peer factors

3.4.4 Health outcomes

3.5 Statistical analyses

Age and gender differences and patterns of adolescent risk behaviour

Socio-economic determinants and patterns of adolescent risk behaviour

The role of social context for adolescent risk behaviour

Consequences of adolescent risk behaviour

4 Results of the empirical studies

4.1 Age and gender differences and patterns of risk behaviour in adolescence

Age and gender differences in risk behaviour in Germany

Age and gender patterns over time

Age and gender patterns across countries

4.2 Socio-economic determinants and patterns of adolescent risk behaviour

Socio-economic differences in risk behaviour in Germany

Trends in socio-economic differences in risk behaviour

Socio-economic differences in risk behaviour across countries

4.3 The role of social contexts for adolescent risk behaviour

4.4 Consequences of risk behaviour

Consequences of risk behaviour in Germany

Consequences of risk behaviour across countries

5 Discussion and perspectives

5.1 Summary of the results

5.2 Implications and perspectives for research and practice

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