The influence of socioenvironmental risk factors on risk-taking behaviors among Bahamian adolescents: a structural equation modeling analysis.

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Health Psychology and Behavioral Medicine Pub Date : 2024-01-08 eCollection Date: 2024-01-01 DOI:10.1080/21642850.2023.2297577

Elizabeth Schieber, Ava Wang, Grace Ou, Carly Herbert, Hoa T Nguyen, Lynette Deveaux, Xiaoming Li

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Abstract

Background: Adolescents' risk-taking behaviors can have profound impacts on their future health. Few studies have established a relationship between multiple social environmental factors and adolescent risk behaviors. We used structural equation modeling to examine the role of parental monitoring and environmental risks on adolescents' behavioral intentions and risk behaviors.

Methods: Data were collected through the baseline survey of a national implementation project among 2205 Grade 6 students in 24 government schools in The Bahamas in 2019. Structural equation modeling examined relations among parental monitoring, environmental risk factors, behavioral intentions, and risk behaviors.

Results: Students had engaged in various delinquent, substance use, and sexual risks. In the structural equation model, parental monitoring demonstrated direct negative (protective) effects on behavioral intentions and risk behaviors, whereas environmental risk factors had a direct positive effect on adolescent behavioral intentions and risk behaviors. The model had an R² value of 0.57 for adolescent risk behaviors.

Conclusion: Parental monitoring and environmental risk factors had strong influences on risk-taking behaviors of early adolescents. Future adolescent health behavior interventions should consider offering additional prevention resources to early adolescents who are exposed to multiple environmental risk factors.

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社会环境风险因素对巴哈马青少年冒险行为的影响：结构方程模型分析。

背景：青少年的冒险行为会对他们未来的健康产生深远的影响。很少有研究确定了多种社会环境因素与青少年冒险行为之间的关系。我们采用结构方程模型研究了父母监督和环境风险对青少年行为意向和风险行为的影响：数据是通过2019年巴哈马24所公立学校2205名六年级学生的国家实施项目基线调查收集的。结构方程模型研究了父母监督、环境风险因素、行为意向和风险行为之间的关系：学生参与了各种犯罪、药物使用和性风险行为。在结构方程模型中，父母的监督对行为意向和风险行为有直接的负向（保护性）影响，而环境风险因素对青少年的行为意向和风险行为有直接的正向影响。该模型对青少年危险行为的 R2 值为 0.57：结论：父母的监督和环境风险因素对早期青少年的冒险行为有很大的影响。未来的青少年健康行为干预措施应考虑为面临多种环境风险因素的早期青少年提供额外的预防资源。

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Health Psychology and Behavioral Medicine PSYCHOLOGY, CLINICAL-

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3.50

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3.70%

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24 weeks

期刊介绍： Health Psychology and Behavioral Medicine: an Open Access Journal (HPBM) publishes theoretical and empirical contributions on all aspects of research and practice into psychosocial, behavioral and biomedical aspects of health. HPBM publishes international, interdisciplinary research with diverse methodological approaches on: Assessment and diagnosis Narratives, experiences and discourses of health and illness Treatment processes and recovery Health cognitions and behaviors at population and individual levels Psychosocial an behavioral prevention interventions Psychosocial determinants and consequences of behavior Social and cultural contexts of health and illness, health disparities Health, illness and medicine Application of advanced information and communication technology.