Adolescent risk-taking and social influence in the context of exploration

Adolescents are often described as a strange and different species that behaves like no other age group, typical behaviours being excessive risk-taking and sensitivity to peer influence. Different theories of adolescent behaviour attribute this to different internal mechanisms like undeveloped cognitive control, higher sensation-seeking or extraordinary social motivation. Many agree that some of adolescent risk-taking behaviour is adaptive. Here we argue that to understand adolescent risk-taking, and why it may be adaptive, research needs to pay attention to the adolescent environments’ structure and view adolescents as learning and exploring agents in it. We identify three unique aspects of the adolescent environment: 1) the opportunities to take risks are increased significantly, 2) these opportunities are novel and their outcomes uncertain, and 3) peers become more important. Next, we illustrate how adolescent risk-taking may emerge from learning using agent-based modelling, and show that a typical inverted-U shape in risk-taking may emerge in absence of a specific adolescent motivational drive for sensation-seeking or sensitivity to social information. The simulations also show how risky exploration may be necessary for adolescents to gain long-term benefits in later developmental stages and that social learning can help reduce losses. Finally, we discuss how a renewed ecological perspective and the focus on adolescents as learning agents may shift the interpretation of current findings and inspire future studies.

Deviant behaviour of adolescents as a manifestation of individual anomie: Social and gender aspects of the problem

Introduction. The present paper continues the line of research related to the various forms of anomie in Russian society. In the proposed study, individual forms of anomie manifestation are considered on the example of deviant behaviour of adolescents (students aged 13-17 years old) depending on the gender and mechanisms of its perception by teachers of educational institutions (mental representation of the phenomenon).The aim of the research is to identify the main forms of individual anomie (as deviant behaviour of adolescents) from the standpoint of the teachers' perceptions of student behavior (mental representation of the behaviour of adolescents, depending on the factor of their gender and deviant / prosocial type of behaviour).Methodology and research methods. To obtain sociological data, the following methods were used: questionnaire survey, focused interview, testing. Further, the obtained results were processed by mathematical processing methods (the Fisher analysis of variance (type III SS, polynomial effect)). The influence and interaction of gender factors and the type of deviant/ prosocial behaviour in adolescents (through the mental representation of this phenomenon by teachers of educational organisations) were considered. The current research involved 1643 students aged from 13 to 17 years old and 832 teachers.Results and scientific novelty. As a result of the conducted research, it was determined that the most pronounced forms of deviant behaviour of modern adolescents in the perception of teachers of educational organisations are smoking and absenteeism. This deviant behaviour of adolescents aged 13-17 years old can be considered as the manifestation of individual anomie (in the perception of teachers as “abnormal”). The structure of adolescents' deviant behaviour in the “deviant” group differs more from the structure of adolescents' behaviour in the “prosocial” group. The gender factor of the research participants has a significant impact on the structure of teachers' perception of the behaviour of adolescents in the group of “deviant” and “prosocial” types of behaviour.The scientific novelty of the work lies in the fact that for the first time the authors of the study considered the deviant behaviour of adolescents as the manifestation of individual anomie. Moreover, for the first time, the authors investigated the structure of deviant behaviour of adolescents aged 13-17 years old (with differentiation by gender) and identified the features of the “norm” of behaviour of adolescents in the Russian Federation in the perception of teachers of educational organisations. This allows us to identify the system-forming factors, which influence the attribution of adolescent behaviour to the category of “norm/normality” (as manifestations of anomie), and to consider the mechanisms of teachers' mental representation of the “deviant/prosocial” type of student behaviour, depending on gender.

Student's Risk Perception and Attitude towards Drug Abuse in Educational Institutions of Pakistan

The current study aimed at exploring the attitude and risk perception of the students towards drug abuse. It was conducted through a quantitative survey technique in the educational institutions (Schools, Colleges and Universities) of four metropolitan cities of Pakistan. The sample size for the survey was 4997 students, using a multistage cluster sampling technique. The study found that although a majority (79%) of the students has a negative attitude towards the use of drugs, and consider its consumption as risky (poor health, lack of sleep, physical weakness, low academic performance, family conflicts and involvement in crimes), yet every fifth of the students is vulnerable to become a drug addict, as 21 percent of the respondent’s regard drug consumption as a risk-free activity. Conclusively, findings of the study, even though limited in the scope, are important to understand adolescent behaviour to ascertain the direction of future public policy on drug abuse in Pakistan.

THE NEUROSCIENCE ASPECTS OF ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOUR AND ITS IMPLICATIONS

Education is considered to be a tool for providing knowledge, building character and promising a comfortable lifeto its learners. To ensure desired learning outcomes, a lot is being done in the areas of developing better curriculum, making state of the art institutions, improving teacher quality, providing digital platforms, enhancing parental involvement etc. However, when it comes to designing Pedagogical Tools based on the learning patterns of the brain, there is seen a wide gap between what is researched in laboratories and what is witnessed in our classrooms. Pedagogical practices not based on an understanding of how a learner’s brain works and what are its needs can lead to undesired behavioural consequences in them. This becomes more pronounced as learners enter into adolescence, a period in development marked with rapid changes at mental, physical, emotional and psychological levels. This paper looks into various researches that have been done in Cognitive Neuroscience and their educational implications on adolescent learners. It explores why educational practices must take into consideration the cognitive aspects of an adolescent’s brain like role of reward system, enhancing Working Memory, providing multisensory stimulus, using memory strategies, understanding learner behavior and needs etc. This paper concludes by providing insights on how learnings from these Neuroscience researches can address the issue of high risk behaviour tendencies and mental disorders amongst adolescent learners.

The ratio of the mental and delinquent model of adolescent behaviour

At present, the identification of psychological factors as a determinant of the illegal behaviour of adolescents is of great importance. The mental model allows explaining and predicting the behaviour of other people and reflecting one’s own mental inner reality. The study of the mental model in adolescents with delinquent and law-abiding behaviour using specially designed narratives provided us with the opportunity to analyse the understanding by adolescents, who have committed and not committed crimes, of the mental states of their own and that of another person, as well as the causes of such states in the process of social interactions. The ability to understand the mental world is paramount and necessary for understanding social interactions, for the correct formation of motives and semantic attitudes of the individual. The results of an empirical study allowed us to confirm the hypothesis that the deficit of the mental model is formed in the family; it is associated with the personality characteristics of the adolescent and, obviously, affects the formation of delinquent behaviour.

The Effect of Health Education through HIV/AIDS Booklet Media on Adolescent Behavior for HIV/AIDS Prevation in Darussalam Health Preventation Lhokseumawe City

According to Republic of Indonesia Minister of Health Regulation Number 52 of 2017, health development is aimed at increasing awareness, willingness and ability to live healthy for everyone so that the highest degree of public health can be realized as an investment for the development of productive human resources. This research is Quasy experiment with one-group-pretest and posttest without a control group which describes the effect of health education through the HIV/AIDS booklet media on adolescent behaviour. The population were 71 people, and all were as the sample. Based on the Wilcoxon Signed Rank test, the significance value is 0.000 <.05. Based on the multivariate analysis with the MANOVA test, it was found that the attitude variable (R-Square = .773) was the variable that had the strongest correlation with the experiment giving the HIV/AIDS booklet media. The results showed the effect of health education through the HIV/AIDS Booklet Media on changes in adolescent behaviour for HIV/AIDS prevention, indicated by an increase in knowledge, attitudes and actions before and after the distribution of HIV/AIDS booklets. Increasing the implementation of HIV/AIDS socialization activities for vocational high school youth by providing education using media tailored to educational targets, one of which is the HIV/AIDS booklet media for vocational high school students and students as a preventive effort in reducing HIV/AIDS cases among vocational high school adolescents so that teenagers in this school become liaison information related to HIV/AIDS to adolescents in other schools.

Tingkat Penggunaan E-Commerce pada Remaja di Kota dan Kabupaten Bogor

Pesatnya perkembangan E-Commerce di beberapa tahun belakang, menjadikan E-Commerce sebagai prospek bisnis besar dalam dunia perdagangan. Tren penggunaan E-Commerce ini melanda dunia remaja, dibuktikan dengan adanya survey OTX dan The Intelligence Group yang dilakukan terhadap remaja berusia 13-17 tahun, hampir 6 dari setiap 10 remaja pernah membeli produk dan jasa lewat internet. Hasil survey ini menunjukkan bahwa perilaku remaja dalam berbelanja di E-Commerce telah berkembang dan menjadi gaya hidup remaja perkotaan. Namun, akses internet di Indonesia saat ini dapat dijangkau hingga ke daerah pedesaan, maka dari itu saat ini E-Commerce dapat diakses oleh semua orang tanpa adanya batasan geografis. Penelitian ini dilakukan di dua lokasi yang berbeda yaitu di Kota dan Kabupaten Bogor. Hal ini untuk membandingkan hasil data dari kedua lokasi tersebut. Tulisan ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui perbedaan tingkat penggunaan E-Commerce yang dilihat dari frekuensi penggunaan aplikasi, durasi akses aplikasi, dan banyaknya aplikasi E-Commerce pada gawai yang dimiliki oleh remaja Kota dan Kabupaten Bogor. Penelitian ini menggunakan pendekatan kuantitatif dan didukung dengan data kualitatif. Data kuantitatif didapat melalui kuesioner dan data kualitatif didapatkan dari wawancara mendalam. Hasil dari penelitian ini menunjukkan adanya perbedaan signifikan dalam hal penggunaan E-Commerce oleh remaja yang tinggal di daerah pedesaan dan di Kota Bogor. Perbedaan nampak dalam hal durasi akses dan tingkat kepemilikan aplikasi E-Commerce.Kata Kunci : E-Commerce, ICT, Internet, Remaja=====ABSTRACTThe development of Electronic-Commerce (E-Commerce) in the past few years has made E-Commerce as a big business prospect in the world of commerce. The trend of E-Commerce is coming to adolescent’s world, there’s evidenced by the OTX survey and The Intelligence Group conducted on adolescents aged 13-17 years, the survey said that 6 out of every 10 teenagers have bought products and services online. The results of this survey indicate that adolescent behaviour in shopping in E-Commerce has developed and become a lifestyle of urban youth. While internet access in Indonesia can be reached up to rural areas, it means E-Commerce can be accessed by everyone without geographical restrictions. This research was conducted in two different locations, on Urban and Rural Area in Bogor to compare the results of data from the two locations. This paper aims to determine differences in the level of E-Commerce usage, and the indicator to measure it is the frequency of application usage, the duration of application access, and the number of E-Commerce applications on devices. This research uses a quantitative approach and is supported by qualitative data. Quantitative data obtained through questionnaires and for qualitative data obtained from in-depth interviews. The results of this study is the duration of access and the amount of E-Commerce has significant differences between the adolescent who lived in Urban and Rural Area of Bogor.Keywords : E-Commerce, ICT, Internet, Teenagers

Tingkat Penggunaan E-Commerce pada Remaja di Kota dan Kabupaten Bogor

Pesatnya perkembangan E-Commerce di beberapa tahun belakang, menjadikan E-Commerce sebagai prospek bisnis besar dalam dunia perdagangan. Tren penggunaan E-Commerce ini melanda dunia remaja, dibuktikan dengan adanya survey OTX dan The Intelligence Group yang dilakukan terhadap remaja berusia 13-17 tahun, hampir 6 dari setiap 10 remaja pernah membeli produk dan jasa lewat internet. Hasil survey ini menunjukkan bahwa perilaku remaja dalam berbelanja di E-Commerce telah berkembang dan menjadi gaya hidup remaja perkotaan. Namun, akses internet di Indonesia saat ini dapat dijangkau hingga ke daerah pedesaan, maka dari itu saat ini E-Commerce dapat diakses oleh semua orang tanpa adanya batasan geografis. Penelitian ini dilakukan di dua lokasi yang berbeda yaitu di Kota dan Kabupaten Bogor. Hal ini untuk membandingkan hasil data dari kedua lokasi tersebut. Tulisan ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui perbedaan tingkat penggunaan E-Commerce yang dilihat dari frekuensi penggunaan aplikasi, durasi akses aplikasi, dan banyaknya aplikasi E-Commerce pada gawai yang dimiliki oleh remaja Kota dan Kabupaten Bogor. Penelitian ini menggunakan pendekatan kuantitatif dan didukung dengan data kualitatif. Data kuantitatif didapat melalui kuesioner dan data kualitatif didapatkan dari wawancara mendalam. Hasil dari penelitian ini menunjukkan adanya perbedaan signifikan dalam hal penggunaan E-Commerce oleh remaja yang tinggal di daerah pedesaan dan di Kota Bogor. Perbedaan nampak dalam hal durasi akses dan tingkat kepemilikan aplikasi E-Commerce.Kata Kunci : E-Commerce, ICT, Internet, Remaja=====ABSTRACTThe development of Electronic-Commerce (E-Commerce) in the past few years has made E-Commerce as a big business prospect in the world of commerce. The trend of E-Commerce is coming to adolescent’s world, there’s evidenced by the OTX survey and The Intelligence Group conducted on adolescents aged 13-17 years, the survey said that 6 out of every 10 teenagers have bought products and services online. The results of this survey indicate that adolescent behaviour in shopping in E-Commerce has developed and become a lifestyle of urban youth. While internet access in Indonesia can be reached up to rural areas, it means E-Commerce can be accessed by everyone without geographical restrictions. This research was conducted in two different locations, on Urban and Rural Area in Bogor to compare the results of data from the two locations. This paper aims to determine differences in the level of E-Commerce usage, and the indicator to measure it is the frequency of application usage, the duration of application access, and the number of E-Commerce applications on devices. This research uses a quantitative approach and is supported by qualitative data. Quantitative data obtained through questionnaires and for qualitative data obtained from in-depth interviews. The results of this study is the duration of access and the amount of E-Commerce has significant differences between the adolescent who lived in Urban and Rural Area of Bogor.Keywords : E-Commerce, ICT, Internet, Teenagers