Risk-Taking Behaviors Engaged in By Early Adolescents While on School Property

Abstract

These findings show the influence of family and schools as environments that can offer protection from health-risk behaviors in early adolescence.

The Role of Technology in Improving K-12 School Safety

“…Rates of violence differ across student subgroups, behavior, and activities. At the individual level, substance use is the most correlated with both perpetration and victimization (Horner, Rew, and Brown, 2012;Zhang and Johnson, 2005). But other characteristics of children are also correlated with perpetration and victimization.…”

“…These include mental health symptoms such as stress, depression, past suicide attempts, and sleep difficulties; personality characteristics such as aggression, impulsivity, lack of self-control; delinquent behaviors such as violent beliefs and school misbehavior; and prior exposure to violence (Horner, Rew, and Brown, 2012;Muula, Rudatsikira, and Siziya, 2008;Vogel and Barton, 2013). Other factors that are less consistently related include students' academic involvement and achievement (Cavanaugh, 2009;Watkins, 2008) and family factors such as income and parental education (Hutchinson et al, 2014;Horner, Rew, and Brown, 2012), and peer factors (Wilcox, May, and Roberts, 2006;Koo, Peguero, and Shekarkhar, 2012). Often these factors attenuate some of the differences observed by the demographic characteristics presented above.…”

“…At the individual level, substance use is the most correlated with both perpetration and victimization. But mental health symptoms (e.g., stress, depression, past suicide attempts, sleep difficulties), personality characteristics (e.g., aggression, impulsivity, lack of self-control), delinquent behaviors (e.g., violent beliefs, school misbehavior), and prior exposure to violence are also correlated with perpetration and victimization (Horner, Rew, and Brown, 2012). Other factors that are less consistently related include academic involvement and achievement and family and peer factors.…”

“…The relationship between economic status and violence is similarly mixed. Children from higher socioeconomic status (SES) families have been found to have a lower likelihood of being disciplined for student-and teacher-directed violence (Taylor, Davis-Kean, and Malan-chuk, 2007) and self-reported weapon-carrying (Coggeshall and Kingery, 2001;Wilcox and Clayton, 2001), yet several other studies have found no effect of family SES on involvement in suspendable offenses (Cavanaugh, 2009) and weapon-carrying (Cao, Zhang, and He, 2008;Horner, Rew, and Brown, 2012;Marsh and Evans, 2007;Wilcox, May, and Roberts, 2006) after accounting for other covariates. Although the proportion of students in poverty has a positive relationship to administrator-reported rates of school violence in several studies (Maume, Kim-Godwin, and Clements, 2010;Veliz and Shakib, 2012), this finding may be attributable to greater rates of disciplinary actions taken by school officials rather than actual violence as reported by students (Klein and Cornell, 2010).…”

Substantiating the need for primary care–based sexual health promotion interventions for ethnic minority adolescent women experiencing health disparities

“…Researchers have related sexual behavior resulting in sexually transmitted infection (STI)/HIV among adolescent women to psychological distress, substance use, and interpersonal violence (Adam, McGuire, Walsh, Basta, & LeCroy, ; Burns et al., ; Champion & Collins, ; Champion, Harlin, & Collins, ; DiClemente, Brown, Beausoleil, & Lodico, ; DuRant, Smith, Kreiter, & Krawchuk, ; Edwards et al., ; Glasgow, Lichtenstein, & Marcus, ; Horner, Rew, & Brown, ; Stockman, Lucea, & Campbell, ; Vega, Sribney, Aguilar‐Gaxiola, & Kolody, ; Yarber, ). To develop sexual health interventions within specific adolescent populations such as ethnic minority females, multifaceted models considering demographic, educational, environmental, and behavioral components are needed to explain phenomena that influence sexual behavior (Kumanyika & Grier, ).…”