OBJECTIVE The current study examines the prevalence of health risk behaviors and their cumulative effects on cardiovascular disease (CVD) among a sample of adults. Age cohort is also examined to determine the role of age in predicting CVD and risky health behaviors. METHOD Medical records of a sample of adults from the Seattle Longitudinal Study categorized into one of four age-group cohorts ...

The present study examines the individual and joint contributions of personality, situations, and relationship contexts as they shape risky sexual behaviors. Data on 7,511 discrete sexual events collected from a community sample of 1,946 young adults were analyzed with multilevel modeling. Results showed that meaningful between-persons differences in risky sexual behavior exist and that these d...

We investigate the effect of teenage driving on mortality and risky behaviors in United States using a regression discontinuity design. estimate that total rises by 5.84 deaths per 100,000 (15 percent) at minimum legal age cutoff, driven an increase motor vehicle fatalities 4.92 (44 percent). also find poisoning deaths, which are caused primarily drug overdoses, rise 0.31 (29 cutoff this is con...

background: young people engage in risky behaviors unintentionally and these behaviors might be reduced or inhibited by preventative behaviors. although adolescents' risky behaviors are known as unplanned or unintentional, preventative behaviors are intentional. the aim of the present study was to assess students’ behavior intentions to avoid drug abuse. methods: this study was a cross sectio...

Background: Although pedestrian-vehicle accidents are often the results of risky behaviors during road crossings, there is limited evidence concerning the risky road crossing behaviors of pedestrians. This study was aimed at eliciting and exploring the reasons that can help explain why young pedestrians take risky road crossing behaviors. Methods: A qualitative content analysis approach was con...

substance abuse, violation and sexual behavior are the main reasons of fatality in adolescents and the youth. most risky behaviors including cigarettes, alcohol, drugs and unsafe sexual contacts occur under the age of 18. traditionally, sport is regarded as a means to encourage and develop healthy behaviors and a factor to protect and prevent risky behaviors. the present study studied 406 stude...

Individual differences in impulsive and risky choice are key risk factors for a variety of maladaptive behaviors such as drug abuse, gambling, and obesity. In our rat model, ordered individual differences are stable across choice parameters, months of testing, and span a broad spectrum, suggesting that rats, like humans, exhibit trait-level impulsive and risky choice behaviors. In addition, imp...