Risk behaviour in adolescence: Two perspectives
2011
This chapter focuses on development of risk behavior in
adolescence. Although the results of our longitudinal study do
not cover the whole range of risk behaviours in adolescence,
they support the meaningful distinction between two forms of
risk behaviour. The first is linked to focusing on peers and
the relationships with them associated with growing autonomy in
the relationship with parents. This form is characterized by a
neutral or negative attitude to school as an institution and by
experimenting with alcohol, nicotine, or cannabis (i.e. not the
so-called hard drugs). With respect to the high prevalence of
this behaviour it seems that we can consider this “risk
exploration” to be more of a developmental norm with some
specifically Czech cultural background. The second form of risk
behaviour is represented by social pathological behaviours:
delinquent behaviour and aggressive behaviour. Its prevalence
is low and it is associated with negative relationships with
both peers and parents.
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