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Risk Behaviour in Adolescence: Patterns, Determinants and Consequences - Softcover

Richter, Matthias

 
9783531173368: Risk Behaviour in Adolescence: Patterns, Determinants and Consequences
Softcover
ISBN 10: 3531173367 ISBN 13: 9783531173368
Publisher: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, 2010

Synopsis

Patterns, Determinants and Consequences

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About the Author

Dr. Matthias Richter is a Professor for Medical Sociology and Social Epidemiology at the Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine (ISPM) at the University of Bern.

From the Back Cover

Adolescents are generally thought to be healthy. However, adolescent risk behaviours, such as substance use, a poor diet or early sexual activity, are topics that keep generating high academic and media interest. Despite considerable explanatory efforts, not much is known yet about the proximate and distal determinants as well as the psychosocial and health-related consequences of risk behaviour in adolescence. The study is among the first to systematically examine the antecedents and consequences of risk behaviour from a comparative perspective over time and across countries. Matthias Richter presents findings from several empirical studies and extends current theoretical and empirical knowledge on adolescent risk behaviour.
This book is valuable reading for academics, practitioners and policy makers in a range of disciplines: sociology, psychology, educational sciences, public health and nursing sciences, with a special focus on adolescent risk behaviour.

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Publisher
VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften
Publication date
2010
Language
English
ISBN 10 
3531173367
ISBN 13 
9783531173368
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
123