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Predicting (un)healthy behavior: A comparison of risk-taking propensity measures
Judgment and Decision Making, 2012 We compare four different risk-taking propensity measures on their ability to describe and to predict actual risky behavior in the domain of health.
Helena Szrek +3 more
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, 2021 This study explores how environmental knowledge and risk perception influence individuals' sustainable consumption behavior through the mediation of environmental concern and behavioral intention.
Ulla A. Saari +3 more
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Positive youth development merits state investment
California Agriculture, 2013 In the last three decades, positive youth development has emerged as the new paradigm for youth-related research and programming. The literature provides strong evidence that high-quality youth programs can have positive and significant effects. Positive
David Campbell +4 more
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International Journal of Disaster Risk Science, 2022 This study adopted an extended theory of planned behavior to understand how risk perception affected disaster preparedness behavior. An intercept survey (N = 286) was conducted at a typhoon-prone district of Hong Kong, China in 2019, then the data were ...
S. Ng
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Perspectivas teóricas para el análisis de la maternidad adolescente / Theoretical frameworks for analyzing teenage motherhood [PDF]
Barataria, 2019 In this article we review the most relevant and recent scientific literature (Spanish and international ones) focused on early pregnancy and teenage childbearing from both perspectives of medical care and social science.
Ana Lucía Hernández Cordero +2 more
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Adolescent risk behavior: Differentiating reasoned and reactive risk-taking
Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 2019 Although explanatory models of adolescent risk behavior have predominantly focused on adolescents’ limited ability to self-regulate impulsive and/or reward-driven behavior (reactive risk behavior), recent arguments suggest that a significant proportion ...
J. Maslowsky +3 more
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Indian Journal of Dermatology, 2022 Background: Current case numbers of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) in Germany are continuously increasing. Young adults aged 19–29 appear to be especially at risk and are therefore the demographic of ever-growing importance for future prevention ...
Corbinian Fuchs +6 more
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Frontiers in Public Health, 2018 IntroductionRisk behaviors commonly co-occur, typically emerge in adolescence, and become entrenched by adulthood. This study investigated the clustering of established (physical inactivity, diet, smoking, and alcohol use) and emerging (sedentary ...
Katrina E. Champion +7 more
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Risk behavior of youth – social definition of risk
Zeszyty Pracy Socjalnej, 2020 Social defining of the risk behaviors is rooted in a diverse, multidimensional world of norms, values, rituals and discourses. Including social contexts of engaging in the risk behaviors and production of knowledge about them allowed us to go beyond standard cause-and-effect descriptions and examine these actions as an essential element of everyday ...
Michał Wanke +2 more
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Behavioral reduction of infection risk [PDF]
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 1999 Evolutionary biologists have long postulated that there should be fitness advantages to animals that are able to recognize and avoid conspecifics infected with contact-transmitted disease. This avoidance hypothesis is in direct conflict with much of epidemiological theory, which is founded on the assumptions that the likelihood of ...
J M, Kiesecker +3 more
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