The aim of this study was to investigate gaps between knowledge on HIV/AIDS and sexual behavior among teenagers. The study used a cross-sectional design with a representative random sample of 1,158 teenagers (14 to 19 years of age) enrolled in nine public secondary schools and who answered validated questionnaires. Data analysis included descriptive statistics and tests of hypotheses (chi-squar...

Using data from the National Educational Longitudinal Study (NELS), we found that teenagers who live in nonmarried families are less likely to graduate from high school or to attend college, more likely to smoke or drink, and more likely to initiate sexual activity. Not all nonmarried families are alike, however. In particular, teenagers living with their single mothers and with at least one gr...

The article addresses the issue of strategic prevention and fight against cybercrime related to children and teenagers with the use of blended learning in order to establish greater awareness and increase the knowledge of children, teenagers as, parents and educators regarding illegal internet content and related activities. Based on the theoretical background, practical experience and the anal...

Heuristic evaluation can be described as a usability engineering method for quick, cheap and easy evaluation of a user interface. This method attempts to detect the problems of a system in terms of usability. Most commonly this kind of evaluation is carried out by an expert. However, this paper proposes a different perspective and asks teenagers to become experts and carry out a simplified form...

Two studies are reported in which the aim was to develop a short self-report scale to assess Motivation for Smoking Cessation in Teenagers (MSCT). An initial pool of 29 items was developed from previous work and through interviews with 50 teenagers in an attempt to assess the constructs of autonomous and controlled regulation. Using responses from a further 198 teenagers, Principal Component An...