Risk Behaviour in Adolescence Patterns, Determinants and Consequences /

• Main Author: Richter, Matthias (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wiesbaden : VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, 2010.
• Subjects: Social sciences.; Child development.; Sociology.; Social groups.; Family.; Youth.; Social Sciences.; Sociology of Familiy, Youth and Aging.; Sociology, general.; Childhood Education.

Adolescents are generally thought to be healthy. However, adolescent risk behaviours, such as substance use, a poor diet or early sexual activity, are topics that keep generating high academic and media interest. Despite considerable explanatory efforts, not much is known yet about the proximate and...

Table of Contents:

• Conceptual framework
• Material and methods
• Results of the empirical studies
• Discussion and perspectives.