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...