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Adolescent risk behaviours and protective factors against peer influence
Adolescent risk behaviours and protective factors against peer influence
- Source :
- Journal of Adolescence. 37:1353-1362
- Publication Year :
- 2014
- Publisher :
- Wiley, 2014.
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Abstract
- This study examined the relationships between protective factors and involvement in risk behaviour of Italian adolescents with friends involved in risk. Protective factors were drawn from models of peers and from individual skills (perceived regulatory self-efficacy, intolerant attitudes about deviance) and orientation (to health, school, religion). The data are from two waves, 1 year apart, of a questionnaire survey of adolescents in northwestern Italy. Participants were 908 adolescents (42% boys) ages 14-16 years. Results of a hierarchical regression revealed that religiosity is a protective factor and that friends' models for conventional behaviours and positive attitude about health can mitigate the influence of deviant friends on adolescent risk behaviour 1 year later, even after controlling for prior levels of risk behaviour. Possible implications of this study suggest the importance of implementing preventive interventions by involving the peer group, especially at about 16 years, and working with heterogeneous (deviant and nondeviant) groups.
- Subjects :
- Male
Adolescent
Social Psychology
education
Protective factor
Moderator factors
Adolescent risk
Deviant peers, Protective factors, Risk behaviours, Religiosity, Heterogeneous groups, Moderator factors
Peer Group
Developmental psychology
Religiosity
Risk-Taking
Sex Factors
Risk Factors
Surveys and Questionnaires
Developmental and Educational Psychology
Humans
Longitudinal Studies
Risk behaviour
Multilevel model
Age Factors
Heterogeneous groups
Questionnaire
Peer group
Psychiatry and Mental health
Protective factors
Italy
Risk behaviours
Adolescent Behavior
Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health
Deviant peers
Female
Psychology
Deviance (sociology)
Clinical psychology
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 10959254 and 01401971
- Volume :
- 37
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of Adolescence
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....639e9b8be39046927dec8496da75634e
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.adolescence.2014.09.013