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Article: School-level application of a social bonding model to adolescent risk-taking behavior.
- Article from:
- Journal of School Health
- Article date:
- February 1, 1995
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Among adolescents, behaviors such as substance use and unprotected sexual activity increase their risk for accidents, sexually transmitted diseases, other chronic diseases, and diminished academic performance.[1,2] While socio-environmental and psychological factors influence adolescent risk-taking behavior,[3-6] few studies tested the ability of both individual- and environmental-level variables to predict adolescent risk-taking behavior. This paper proposes a social bonding heuristic model that includes school-environment indicators to predict involvement in risk-taking behaviors among adolescents.
CONCEPTUAL MODEL
Models derived from social control ...