Internet Abuse Risk Factors among Spanish Adolescents

AbstractEmpirical evidence has revealed various factors that contribute to the development and maintenance of Internet abuse. The aim of this paper was to analyze, on a sample of Spanish adolescents, the relationship between Internet abuse and: (1) Personal and interpersonal risk factors, including social skills in both virtual and real-life contexts; (2) Drug use. A total of 814 high school students aged between 13 and 17 participated in this study, and were divided into two groups: Internet Abusers (IA = 173) and Non-Internet Abusers (NIA = 641). Questionnaires were used to analyze Internet and drug use/abuse, as well as social skills, in virtual and real contexts. Various interpersonal risk factors (family and group of friends) were also assessed. IA showed a more severe pattern of Internet and drug use, as well as poorer social skills in both contexts. Moreover, their groups of friends appeared more likely to become involved in risky situations related to Internet and drug abuse. Both IA and NIA showed more adaptive social skills in the virtual context than in the real one. There is a need for further research to build on these findings, with a view to designing specific preventive programs that promote responsible Internet use.

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Risk Factors for Drug Use in Urban Adolescents: A Three-Wave Longitudinal Study

Journal of Drug Issues ◽

10.1177/002204269302300306 ◽

1993 ◽

Vol 23 (3) ◽

pp. 443-462 ◽

Cited By ~ 8

Author(s):

Albert D. Farrell

Keyword(s):

Risk Factors ◽

Drug Use ◽

Urban Adolescents ◽

School Students ◽

Path Models ◽

Factor Index ◽

Model Drug ◽

The Relationship ◽

Best Fit ◽

Hard Liquor

A three-wave longitudinal panel design was used to examine the relationship between risk factors and drug use in a sample of 1,375 middle school students in an urban school system. The total number of risk factors was significantly related to subsequent initiation of use for beer, wine, hard liquor, cigarettes, and marijuana. Comparison of several path models relating risk factors to the frequency of drug use across three time points between the seventh and eighth grades indicated that a reciprocal model provided the best fit to the data. Within this model, drug use was predicted by previous levels of drug use and risk factors, and the risk factor index was predicted by previous levels of risk factors and drug use. These findings provide further support for the utility of a risk factors approach to identifying variables associated with drug use among adolescents.

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Is Coca Paste Currently a Drug of Abuse among High School Students?

Journal of Drug Education ◽

10.2190/5cpb-ncap-xmrg-6gcy ◽

1981 ◽

Vol 11 (3) ◽

pp. 205-212

Author(s):

George J. Huba ◽

Marilyn S. Alkin ◽

Peter M. Bentler

Keyword(s):

High School ◽

High School Students ◽

Longitudinal Study ◽

Los Angeles ◽

Drug Use ◽

School Students ◽

Drug Of Abuse ◽

Twelfth Grade ◽

Relationship Of ◽

The Relationship

During the spring of 1980 we included items about the use of coca paste in an ongoing longitudinal study of high school students in greater Los Angeles. Of 228 eleventh and twelfth grade males, four (1.8%) claimed to have used coca paste in the previous six months. Of 460 eleventh and twelfth grade females, five (1.1%) reported using coca paste during the six month period. We examine the usage rates in relationship to those for other drugs like liquor, marijuana, PCP, and cocaine. We also studied the relationship of the knowledge of coca paste, having friends who use the drug, and attitudes about the substance to other forms of drug use.

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Polish High School Students’ Knowledge about Cancer

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health ◽

10.3390/ijerph18094765 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 18 (9) ◽

pp. 4765

Author(s):

Monika Rucinska ◽

Radoslaw Sroda ◽

Olga Wilk ◽

Arian Saied ◽

Jakub Miloszewski ◽

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Keyword(s):

Risk Factors ◽

High School ◽

High School Students ◽

Cancer Risk ◽

School Students ◽

Cancer Risk Factors ◽

Knowledge Of Cancer ◽

Almost All ◽

The Relationship ◽

Global Health Problem

Background: Cancer, as the second most common cause of death after cardiovascular diseases, is a global health problem. There is still an increasing number of cancer incidences and deaths. Methods: The study was conducted as a part of the health promotion educational project concerning oncological education to develop the knowledge of cancer risk factors among high school students in Poland. A special questionnaire was filled out by students before the educational lesson on cancer conducted by medical students and young doctors. Results: The study was carried out on 227 high school students (aged 17–18 years). Most students (67.5%) indicated that genetic predisposition is the most important cancer risk factor. Only about a quarter of students pointed to the relationship between lifestyle and cancer. Moreover, 41% of students admitted to smoking cigarettes. Most of them (80.6%) claimed that they can modify their own cancer risk. Almost all responders believed that early detected cancer is curable. Conclusions: High school students do not know about cancer risk factors and they do not relate cancer with lifestyle. Some students indicated bad lifestyle habits such as tobacco smoking. It is necessary to emphasize cancer prevention in early education, especially focusing on modification of lifestyle.

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Effects of adolescent smartphone addiction on cybersexual delinquency

Social Behavior and Personality An International Journal ◽

10.2224/sbp.5916 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 45 (5) ◽

pp. 819-831 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Jin Choi ◽

Ok-joo Choi ◽

Joon-ho Kim

Keyword(s):

Risk Factors ◽

High School ◽

High School Students ◽

South Korea ◽

Smartphone Addiction ◽

School Students ◽

Korean Adolescents ◽

Verbal Violence ◽

The Relationship ◽

Positive Effect

We analyzed the relationship between smartphone addiction and cybersexual delinquency in a sample of Korean adolescents; further, we specifically delineated and analyzed the risk factors for smartphone addiction. Statistical analyses were performed based on the responses to a survey conducted with 1,020 high school students across South Korea. Results showed that adolescent smartphone addiction had a significantly positive effect on the likelihood of accessing cybersexual content and the frequency of engaging in cyber-verbal violence. Furthermore, the accessing of cybersexual content had a significantly positive effect on the frequency of engaging in cyber-verbal violence, and the frequency of engaging in cyber-verbal violence had a significantly positive effect on the development of cybersexual delinquency. Specifically, because adolescents are still in the process of developing socially, they are vulnerable to smartphone addiction; therefore, there is a need for appropriate interventions to be developed for use with this population.

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The relationship between social skills and misconduct with their teachers in high school students in the City Aligudarz 2018

International Journal of Adolescent Medicine and Health ◽

10.1515/ijamh-2018-0242 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 0 (0) ◽

Author(s):

Roghayeh Gilani ◽

Minoo Motaghi

Keyword(s):

High School ◽

High School Students ◽

Social Skills ◽

Skill Training ◽

School Students ◽

The Social ◽

Effective Relationships ◽

Random Manner ◽

The Relationship ◽

The City

Abstract Whereas adolescence is one of the most emotional periods in every person life so having social skills and increasing awareness cause persons have beneficial and effective relationships with other people and avoid socially absurd behavior. On the other hand, with the reduction of social behavior student’s communicational and the social aspects of growth will be improved: physical, psychological, mental and social. Hence, the aim of this study was to look at the relationship between students’ social skills at the second level of high school with their teachers in Aligoudarz Province, Iran. The present study is a descriptive quantitative study of the correlation type. Statistical samples included 200 boy and girl students in the second level of high school in Aligoudarz Province which were selected in a multistage random manner. Data collection included a three-part questionnaire which included demographic information, social skills and a researcher-created questionnaire about parents’ disorders which was supplemented by students and analyzed by statistical descriptive and inferential and SPSS 16 software. The findings of this study showed that there relation between students’ social skills and relationships with their teachers, hence by increasing students’ social skill training it can avoid disorder and help in their health education.

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Swedish high-school pupils’ attitudes towards drugs in relation to drug usage, impulsiveness and other risk factors

10.7287/peerj.preprints.254v1 ◽

2014 ◽

Author(s):

Fariba Mousavi ◽

Danilo Garcia ◽

Trevor Archer ◽

Béatrice Ewalds-Kvist

Keyword(s):

Risk Factors ◽

High School ◽

Gender Differences ◽

High School Students ◽

Drug Use ◽

Odds Ratio ◽

Drug Users ◽

School Students ◽

Drug Usage ◽

Positive Attitudes

Background: Illicit drug use influences people’s lives and elicits unwanted behaviour. Current research shows that there is an increase in young people’s drug use in Sweden. Therefore, this study aimed at investigating high-school students’ attitudes, impulsiveness and gender differences linked to drug use. Also risk and protective factors relative to drug use were in focus of interest. Method: High school pupils (n = 146), aged 17- 21 years, responded to the Adolescent Health and Development Inventory, Barratt Impulsiveness Scale (BIS-11) and Knowledge, and the Attitudes and Beliefs (KAB). Direct logistic, multiple regression analyses, and Multivariate Analysis of Variance were used to analyse the data. Results: Positive Attitudes towards drugs was predicted by risk factors, odds ratio = 37.31. Risk factors, odds ratio = 46.89, and positive attitudes towards drugs, odds ratio = 4.63, predicted drug usage. Family, friends and individual as risk factors was positively related to impulsiveness among drug users. Moreover, although males reported using drugs to a greater extent, but female expressed more positive attitude towards drugs and even reported more impulsiveness than male students. Conclusion: Positive attitudes towards drugs among adolescents seem to be part of a vicious circle including risk factors, such as friendly drug environments (e.g., friends who use drugs) and unsupportive family environments, and impulsiveness. Even pro-drug attitudes were interpreted as a sign of a social change defined as altered norms, values and symbols of the society. This study reinforces the idea that research must focus on gender differences relative to pro-drug attitudes along with testing for differences in the predictors of girls’ and boys’ delinquency and impulsiveness.

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