Risk-Taking Behaviors of Adolescents With Extreme Obesity: Normative or Not?

Risk-taking behaviors of adolescents with extreme obesity: normative or not?

OBJECTIVE Present first published data detailing high-risk behaviors of adolescent high school students (HSS) with extreme obesity (BMI ≥ 99th percentile for age and gender) compared with healthy weight peers (5th-84th percentile). METHODS The 2007 Youth Risk Behavior Survey was used to compare HSS with extreme obesity (N = 410) and healthy weight peers (N = 8669) in their engagement in (1) t...

Self-efficacy, Adolescents’ Risk-taking Behaviors, and Health

Perceived self-efficacy makes a difference in how people feel, think, and act (Bandura 1997). Thus, it is reasonable that self-efficacy also governs health behaviors. The role that self-beliefs play in the realm of health behaviors, health outcomes, and health care has been the object of many studies, and the construct of self-efficacy has sparked a great deal of valuable research in health psy...

Obesity-Related Behaviors among Poor Adolescents and Young Adults: Is Social Position Associated with Risk Behaviors?

HighlightsDifferent measures of social position capture unique dimensions of relative rank among youth.Youth-specific measures of social position may be important in identifying the most at-risk for obesity.Lower social status youth are more likely to be at-risk for obesity-related behaviors compared to those with a higher rank. This cross-sectional study examines multiple dimensions of social ...

Running head: ANXIETY SENSITIVTY AND RISK-TAKING BEHAVIORS Dowd 1 Anxiety Sensitivity and Risk-Taking Behaviors

[Comparative study of the subjective emotional experience among adolescents showing depressive symptoms associated or not with risk-taking behavior].

INTRODUCTION Relationships between risk-taking behavior and depressive disorders in young people are considered as a complex psychopathological problem. Previous findings showed strong correlations between substance abuse, risk-taking behavior and depressive symptoms. Nevertheless, questions remain concerning potential common factors of depression and risk-taking behavior. Besides research focu...