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Risking Everything? Risk Behavior, Behavior Change, and AIDS

Science, 1994
Inquiry into the determinants of risk-related sexual behavior is important for the development of interventions to reduce the incidence of new cases of human immunodeficiency virus infection. Recent social and behavioral research has revealed much about the individual and social factors influencing risk-taking.
P, Aggleton   +3 more
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Risk perceptions and their relation to risk behavior

Annals of Behavioral Medicine, 2004
Because risk perceptions can affect protective behavior and protective behavior can affect risk perceptions, the relations between these 2 constructs are complex and incorrect tests often lead to invalid conclusions.To discuss and carry out appropriate tests of 3 easily confused hypotheses: (a).
Noel T, Brewer   +3 more
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Reducing At-Risk Behaviors

The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety, 2005
All to often, one of the most deeply seated roots of system problems--an organizational culture with a high tolerance of at-risk behaviors--is overlooked.
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Suicidal behavior in the family and adolescent risk behavior

Journal of Adolescent Health, 2005
The purpose of this study was to examine the prevalence and sociodemographic characteristics of adolescents exposed to suicide attempts and suicide deaths by a family member and to evaluate the separate associations between exposure to a family member's suicide attempts or suicide death and risk behaviors, social-emotional functioning, and family ...
Julie, Cerel, Timothy A, Roberts
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Peer Suicidal Behavior and Adolescent Risk Behavior

Journal of Nervous & Mental Disease, 2005
The relationship between adolescent suicide attempts and death by suicide and psychosocial functioning of peers remains poorly understood, especially in the myriad ways that these suicidal behaviors might impact friends. This study explored the relationship between peer suicidal behavior and adolescent risk behavior using a large, nationally ...
Julie, Cerel   +2 more
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Health-Risk Behavior and the Type a Behavior Pattern

Psychological Reports, 1987
Although the Type A pattern has been established as a risk factor for coronary heart disease, it is not clear whether the pattern is associated with other health-risk behaviors. 26 men and 59 women completed the student version of the Jenkins Activity Survey and a questionnaire concerning smoking, drinking, exercise, and seatbelt use.
B E, Jordan, A R, Perry
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Outrunning the Risks: A Behavioral Risk Profile of Runners

American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 1989
There is a need to assess better the relationship between physical activity and other health behaviors through population-based studies. Using the state-based Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, we examined the behavioral risk factors of smoking, alcohol use, hypertension detection, obesity, seat-belt use, and physical activity in 2,412 runners
G W, Heath, J S, Kendrick
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Behavioral Risk

The Journal of Investing, 1997
Investment managers are expected to act rationally and to incorporate all available information into the decision-making process. Many are often wrong, however, which raises important questions about the risks associated with human judgment. Behavioral flaws such as overconfidence, temptation, self-interest, fear, and greed lead to irrational behavior ...
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High-Risk Sexual Behaviors

2012
Adolescence is a time of life characterized by danger because of the many changes that occur, the many ties that are severed: ties to childhood, ties to the child's body as it begins to take on an adult appearance, ties to a once-familiar body image and psyche as hormones complete the transformation to adulthood, ties to an unconscious that is ...
Thierry, Troussier   +2 more
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