ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR AND INTERESTS

Development of a measure of adolescent leisure interests.

OBJECTIVE Two studies examined the internal consistency and test-retest reliability of the Adolescent Leisure Interest Profile (ALIP), an 86-item measure of adolescent leisure activity interest, leisure participation, and feelings about leisure. In addition, leisure activity interests and participation of adolescents with and without disabilities were described, and the ability of the ALIP to d...

Adolescent Sexuality: Behavior and Meaning

Adolescent suicide and suicidal behavior.

This review examines the descriptive epidemiology, and risk and protective factors for youth suicide and suicidal behavior. A model of youth suicidal behavior is articulated, whereby suicidal behavior ensues as a result of an interaction of socio-cultural, developmental, psychiatric, psychological, and family-environmental factors. On the basis of this review, clinical and public health approac...

Reconceptualizing Adolescent Sexual Behavior

conceptualized in a negative and pro blematic context,” with the intent of preventing diseases and unplanned pre gn a n c i e s .5 For these and other re a s o n s , adolescent sexuality is typically conceptualized and studied as a dichotomy: Adolescents have had sex or they have not. H o w e v e r, the dichotomous sex–no sex view does not take into account the psychological and social context ...

Adolescent Smoking Behavior

INTRODUCTION One principal aim of tobacco control programs is the prevention of smoking initiation. Adolescent smoking prevalence peaked during the 1940s for males and during the early1970s for females. Since the 1940s, there has been a substantial decline in smoking prevalence among adolescent males. However, during the 1980s, the decline in prevalence stopped and began to level. The decline f...