Adolescents and risk : behaviors, functions, and protective factors /

Adolescents and risk : behaviors, functions, and protective factors /

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Author / Creator:Bonino, Silvia.
Uniform title:Adolescenti e rischio. English
Imprint:Milano ; New York : Springer, c2005.
Description:1 online resource (xii, 371 p.) : ill.
Language:English
Subject:
Risk-taking (Psychology) in adolescence.
Adolescent Behavior -- psychology.
Risk-Taking.
Adolescent.
Risk-taking (Psychology) in adolescence.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8874638
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Other authors / contributors:Cattelino, Elena.
Ciairano, Silvia.
ISBN:8847002907
9788847002906
8847003938 (electronic bk.)
9788847003934 (electronic bk.)
9786610413515
6610413517
Notes:Originally published in Italian: Adolescenti e rischio / Silvia Bonino, Elena Cattelino, Silvia Ciairano. Firenze : Giunti, c2003.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [351]-371).
Translated from the Italian.
Description based on print version record.
Summary:The volume provides a substantial contribution to the understanding of adolescent risk behavior, informative and useful for both scientists and practitioners. The chapters deal with each of the key risk behaviors that are of concern at this developmental stage: tobacco smoking, alcohol use, marijuana and other drugs use, precocious and unprotected sexual behavior, eating disorders, risky behavior, risky driving, deviant and antisocial behavior. The book combines theoretical analysis and the findings of a wide research project, where the multiple contexts in the ecology of daily adolescent life.
Other form:Print version: Bonino, Silvia. Adolescenti e rischio. English. Adolescents and risk. Milano ; New York : Springer, c2005 8847002907
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Risk Behavior in Adolescence
  • 1.1. Adolescents and Adolescence
  • 1.2. Development as Action in Context
  • 1.3. Developmental Tasks
  • Box 1.1. Developmental Tasks in Adolescence
  • 1.4. Risk and Well-Being
  • Box 1.2. Adolescence as a Conflict and Problem: An Adult Projection
  • 1.5. Functions of Risk Behavior
  • Box 1.3. Identity Development: Continuity and Change
  • 2. The Study
  • 2.1. Theoretical Framework and Objectives
  • 2.2. The Instrument
  • 2.3. The Sample
  • 2.4. Presentation of Results and Statistical Analysis
  • 3. Psychoactive Substance Use
  • 3.1. Psychoactive Substance Use: Tobacco, Alcohol, and Marijuana
  • 3.1.1. Cigarette Smoking
  • 3.1.2. Alcohol Consumption
  • 3.1.3. Marijuana Smoking
  • 3.1.4. The use of Different Substances
  • 3.2. Age and Context of Initiation
  • 3.2.1. Precociousness, Contexts of Use, and Risk
  • 3.3. Homogeneity within Peer Groups
  • 3.4. Parents: Models and Attitudes
  • 3.5. Functions of Psychoactive Substance Use
  • 3.5.1. All Grown Up
  • 3.5.2. Cigarettes, Marijuana, and Transgression
  • Box 3.1. Moderate Drinkers
  • 3.5.3. What Is It Like? Experimentation
  • 3.5.4. The Ritual Function
  • 3.5.5. Marijuana Use as an Escape
  • Box 3.2. High-Risk Adolescents
  • 3.6. Protective Factors
  • 3.6.1. What Type of Knowledge Is Most Useful?
  • 3.6.2. The School Experience
  • 3.6.3. Use of Free Time
  • 3.6.4. External Regulation, Support, and Control
  • 4. Risk-Taking Behavior and Risky Driving
  • 4.1. Risk-Taking Behavior
  • 4.1.1. Males and Risk
  • 4.2. Functions of Risk-Taking Behavior
  • 4.2.1. Self-Affirmation and Experimentation
  • 4.2.2. Identification and Social Acceptance
  • 4.2.3. Escape Through Action and Excitement
  • 4.3. Driving in Adolescence: A Step Toward Independence
  • 4.3.1. Adolescents at the Wheel
  • 4.4. Risky Driving
  • 4.4.1. Offenses, Risks, and Accidents
  • 4.4.2. Driving Under the Influence of Psychoactive Substances
  • Box 4.1. Road Accidents and Heuristic Reasoning
  • Box 4.2. Driving Ability, Driving Style, and the Consumption of Psychoactive Substances in Adolescence
  • 4.4.3. Fines
  • 4.5. Functions of Risky Driving
  • 4.5.1. Adulthood, Self-Affirmation, and Experimentation
  • 4.5.2. Identification and Peer Emulation
  • 4.5.3. Adolescent Escape
  • 4.6. Protective Factors
  • 5. Antisocial Behavior
  • 5.1. Antisocial Behavior in Adolescence
  • 5.2. Multiple Forms of Antisocial Behavior
  • 5.2.1. Gender Differences
  • 5.2.2. School Differences
  • 5.2.3. Age Differences
  • 5.3. Functions of Antisocial Behavior
  • 5.3.1. Experimentation and Identity Affirmation
  • 5.3.2. Social Visibility, Acceptance, and Desirability
  • Box 5.1. Self-Exoneration, Self, and External Regulation
  • 5.3.3. Transgression and Relations with Authority
  • 5.4. Antisocial Behavior in Context
  • 5.4.1. The Family
  • 5.4.2. The School Experience
  • 5.4.3. Peers
  • 5.4.4. Free Time
  • 6. Sexual Behavior, Contraception, and AIDS
  • 6.1. Sexual Activity in Adolescence: A Transition Toward Adulthood
  • 6.2. Experimenting with Affection and Sex: Age and School Differences
  • 6.3. Sexuality in Boys and Girls
  • 6.4. Contraception and the Prevention of Sexually Transmitted Diseases. Behavior, Relational Conditions, Attitudes, and Knowledge: Which Is Most Important?
  • 6.4.1. Contraceptive Behavior
  • 6.4.2. Information and Attitudes Toward Contraception
  • 6.4.3. Knowledge on the Prevention of Sexually Transmitted Diseases such as AIDS
  • 6.4.4. Knowing Is Essential, but Is It Enough?
  • 6.5. Functions of Sexual Behavior in Adolescence
  • 6.5.1. Adulthood: Realization, Anticipation, and Exasperation
  • 6.5.2. Adolescent Sexual Activity as Transgression, Experimentation, and Exploration
  • 6.5.3. Ritual and Emulation Functions
  • 6.5.4. One or More Partners: What Is the Difference?
  • 6.5.5. Different Functions of Sexual Activity in Relation to the Way It Is Carried Out
  • 6.6. Adolescents and Pregnancy
  • 6.7. Family, School Experience, and Friends as Protective and Risk Factors
  • 7. Disturbed Eating
  • 7.1. Self-Perception, Social Relationships, and Eating in Adolescence
  • 7.2. Body and Body Image: Gender Differences
  • 7.3. Knowledge of the Risks Involved in an Unhealthy Lifestyle
  • 7.4. Healthiness and Regularity of Eating Habits: A Controversial Relationship
  • 7.4.1. Daily Eating Habits of Adolescents, Their Parents, and Their Friends
  • 7.4.2. Eating, Body Image, Knowledge, and Models
  • 7.5. Disturbed Eating: A Gender Phenomenon
  • 7.5.1. Dieting, Comfort Eating, and Purging Behavior: Many Sides of the Same Coin
  • 7.5.2. Different Patterns of Disturbed Eating
  • 7.5.3. Disturbed Eating and Distorted Body Image: A Female Risk
  • 7.6. Functions of Disturbed Eating
  • 7.6.1. Disturbed Eating as an Emotional Strategy for Problem Resolution and a Way to Affirm Independence and Competence
  • 7.6.2. Disturbed Eating as Transgression, Experimentation, and a Way of Exercising Control
  • 7.6.3. Disturbed Eating as Communication, Emulation, and Surpassing
  • 7.6.4. The Highest Risk Group
  • 7.7. Main Protective and Risk Factors
  • 8. Prevention: What Can We Do?
  • 8.1. The Health and Well-Being Myth
  • 8.2. Prevention Methods
  • 8.3. Risk Behavior: The Main Protective Factors
  • 8.4. Prevention Based on Functions: Direct and Indirect Action
  • 8.5. Which Type of Knowledge: What to Avoid
  • 8.6. Conclusion
  • Appendix
  • References

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