The role of family, peers and school in externalised adolescent risk behaviour
Year: 2017
Type: article
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: This paper analyses the theoretical background and empirical research data on externalised adolescent risk behaviour conducted with 133 participants in 2016. The research sample consisted of 69 male (51, 9%) and 64 female (48, 1%) participants, aged from 15 to 19 years.Out of 133 participants, 79, 7% (N=1 06) adolescents live with both parents, 15% (N=20) live with their mother, and 5, 3% (N=7) live with someone else. 33, 8% (N=45) of the sample attend gymnasium schools, 28, 5% (N=38) attend vocational schools, and 37, 6% (N=50) attend art schools. The survey results provide an insight into the complex relation between sociodemographic traits, family life quality, school achievement, peer relationships and externalised risk behaviour in adolescents from the Osjecko-baranjska region in Croatia. The preliminary statistical analyses (t-test, ANOVA) show multiple significant differences in the protective role and importance of family support, peer relations and school attainment in relation to alcohol, tobacco and drug consumption, verbal and physical violence, high- risk gambling behaviour and school truancy, as well as risky sexual behaviour and vandalism among adolescents. Correlation analysis results show distinct significant trends in the nature of the relation between risk and protective factors in adolescent externalised risk behaviour etiology. The paper emphasises the most important risk and protective factors in adolescent active risky behaviour etiology, as well as reccomendations for future expert prevention activities.
Author: Goran Livazović
Language: English
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2916433904