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3 results foundAuthor: Eisen, Marvin Title: Teen Risk-Taking: Promising Prevention Programs and Approaches Summary: For many, preadolescence and adolescence are difficult to navigate. Most teens have newly granted independence and a desire to test limits, yet they lack information and decisionmaking skills. This combination often leads to unnecessary risk-taking that can have harmful, even deadly, consequences. The most serious threats to the health and safety of adolescents and young adults are preventable. They result from such risk-taking behaviors as fighting, substance abuse, suicide, and sexual activity rather than from illness. Many teens do not engage in any of these behaviors; however, most teens that engage in any one of these behaviors are also likely to engage in others, thereby increasing the chance of damage to their health. Programs intended to educate preteens and teens by steering them away from such risky behavior are in demand and gaining in popularity. These programs often are based in schools, where they can potentially reach large and diverse groups of youth. They also are found in a variety of community settings. Although interest in problem behavior prevention programs is increasing, until recently little was known about what components and delivery mechanisms make for a successful intervention— and whether such components and means can be extended to or modified for other settings. Such information is crucial for those interested in either improving existing programs or establishing new ones based on successful models elsewhere. To help close this knowledge gap and to help program directors, practitioners, and community leaders enlarge the network of effective programs and approaches for at-risk youth, Urban Institute researchers reviewed what is known about successful prevention interventions and their dissemination. They identified 51 problem behavior prevention interventions whose initial effectiveness has been demonstrated through scientific evaluation. A subset of 21 programs was selected on the basis of the rigor of their evaluations or the strength of their results for closer examination of the program elements and/or delivery modes that appeared to be associated with their effectiveness. The researchers also explored with the assistance of experienced prevention scientists and schoolbased practitioners what might be the essential elements of schools’ and other community organizations’ readiness to undertake research-based problem behavior prevention programming. This guidebook to promising programs and approaches offers the fruits of that research. It is our hope that it will provide a helpful starting point for the development of a larger, more sustainable network of effective prevention programs and approaches for at-risk teens. Details: Washington, DC: Urban Institute, 2000. 104p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed October 24, 2012 at: http://www.urban.org/UploadedPDF/TeenRiskTaking_2.pdf Year: 2000 Country: United States URL: http://www.urban.org/UploadedPDF/TeenRiskTaking_2.pdf Shelf Number: 126787 Keywords: At-Risk Youth (U.S.)Risk TakingRisky Behaviors |
Author: Elsner, Benjamin Title: Rank, Sex, Drugs, and Crime Summary: In this paper we show that a student's ordinal rank in a high school cohort is an important determinant of engaging in risky behaviors. Using longitudinal data from representative US high schools, and exploiting idiosyncratic variation in the cohort composition within a school, we find a strong negative effect of a student's rank on the likelihood of smoking, drinking, having unprotected sex, and engaging in physical fights. We further provide suggestive evidence that these results are driven by status concerns and differences in career expectations. Details: Bonn: Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), 2015. 34p. Source: Internet Resource: IZA Discussion Paper No. 9478: Accessed November 28, 2015 at: http://ftp.iza.org/dp9478.pdf Year: 2015 Country: United States URL: http://ftp.iza.org/dp9478.pdf Shelf Number: 137360 Keywords: At-Risk YouthRisky BehaviorsStudent Misconduct |
Author: Favara, Marta Title: Psychosocial Competencies and Risky Behaviours in Peru Summary: We use a unique longitudinal dataset from Peru to investigate the relationship between psychosocial competencies related to the concepts of self-esteem, self-efficacy, and aspirations, and a number of risky behaviours at a crucial transition period between adolescence and early adulthood. First of all, we document a high prevalence of risky behaviours with 1 out of 2 individuals engaging in at least one risky activity by the age 19 with a dramatic increase between age 15 and 19. Second, we find a pronounced pro-male bias and some differences by area of residence particularly in drinking habits which are more prevalent in urban areas.Third, we find a negative correlation between early self-esteem and later risky behaviours which is robust to a number of specifications. Further, aspiring to higher education at the age of 15 is correlated to a lower probability of drinking and of engaging in criminal behaviours at the age of 19. Similarly, aspirations protect girls from risky sexual behaviours. Details: Bonn, Germany: Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), 2016. 51p. Source: Internet Resource: IZA Discussion Paper No. 10260: Accessed October 12, 2016 at: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2849745 Year: 2016 Country: Peru URL: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2849745 Shelf Number: 140683 Keywords: At-Risk Youth Risky Behaviors |