Religiosity and Preventing Risky Behaviors

Religiosity and Preventing Risky Behaviors

There is a consensus among psychological theorists indicating that beliefs and behaviors are related. Since most of the homogeneous and institutionalized tenets among social groups and people, religious beliefs relation with behaviors is a theme deserved to be studied. Examining the relation between religious beliefs and risky behaviors will help to predict and prevent such behaviors. Most psyc...

religiosity and preventing risky behaviors

Media and risky behaviors.

Liliana Escobar-Chaves and Craig Anderson investigate two important trends among American youth and examine the extent to which the two trends might be related. First, the authors note that U.S. youth are spending increasing amounts of time using electronic media, with the average American youngster now spending one-third of each day with some form of electronic media. Second, the authors demon...

Risky music-listening behaviors and associated health-risk behaviors.

OBJECTIVE To examine, among adolescents and emerging adults attending inner-city lower education, associations between risky music-listening behaviors (from MP3 players and in discotheques and at pop concerts) and more traditional health-risk behaviors: substance use (cigarettes, alcohol, cannabis, and hard drugs) and unsafe sexual intercourse. METHODS A total of 944 students in Dutch inner-c...

Child abuse and risky behaviors among youths.

BACKGROUND Child abuse is an important health issue but it is little known how abuse experiences in childhood and current health risk behaviors are related. OBJECTIVES To (a) study the prevalence and characteristics of child abuse experience, (b) test the hypothesis that youths with a history of child abuse would have more health risk behaviors compared to their non-abused counterparts and (c...