The determinants of adolescents’ deviant behaviours

Psychosocial Determinants of Mental Health and Risk Behaviours in Adolescents

This study aimed at identifying the prevalence of emotional problems among children and adolescents in Portugal. Gender, developmental aspects, their psychosocial determinants, and the time trends over 8 years were also explored. The three waves of a cross-sectional survey obtained from the HBSC nationally representative samples of 10-17 year old children and adolescents in 1998, 2002, and 2006...

Health Behaviours and Lifestyle Determinants of Health

Behavioral Determinants of Obesity among Adolescents: A Qualitative Study

Background: Overweight and obesity are the most serious public health challenges of developed and developing countries. The prevalence of childhood obesity has increased worldwide. This study aims to identify the behavioral determinants of overweight and obesity among adolescents. Methods: This is a qualitative study with directed approach to content analysis of in-depth semi-structured intervi...

Protective and compensatory factors mitigating the influence of deviant friends on delinquent behaviours during early adolescence.

This study examined factors that could moderate or compensate the link between exposure to deviant friends and delinquent behaviours in a sample of 265 early adolescents. The putative moderating or compensatory factors referred to the behavioural domain (i.e. novelty seeking, harm avoidance), the biological domain (i.e. physical maturation), the sociofamily domain (i.e. sociofamily adversity, p...

Understanding the social determinants of behaviours: can new methods help?

An individual’s behaviourundoubtedly results fromasetof comlicated processes involving interactions between environmental actors, personal characteristics, and biology. Moreover it is clear hat social processes, both through their influence on the social ndphysical environments inwhichpeople live andwork, aswell as hrough the transmissionofnormsandattitudes throughsocial netorks, play a key rol...