Publication details
Souvislost psychických potíží a rizikového chování adolescentů
| Title in English | The link between psychic difficulties and risk behaviour in adolescents |
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| Year of publication | 2012 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Česká a slovenská psychiatrie |
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| Web | http://www.cspsychiatr.cz/dwnld/CSP_2012_2_72_79.pdf |
| Field | Psychology |
| Keywords | adolescents; ELSPAC; frame of mind; risk behaviour |
| Description | Aim: To verify if it is possible to identify an association between a frame of mind of adolescents and their involvement in some specific kind of a risk behaviour by the nonclinical group. Material and methods: The study sample is formed by the participants of ELSPAC (European Longitudinal Study of Parenthood and Childhood) and include 1.531 adolescents. The data used are from the fifteen-year-old age (of the children from the project) period. Respondents were divided into five groups by the risk behaviour (an addictive b., an anti-social b., a risk sexual b., a syndrome group, a control non-risk group). The data were analysed in the SPSS programme by standard statistical methods (Chí2-test, ANOVA, Scheffe test, RR), using these methods the differences between groups in subscales of SDQ questionnaire and in selected psychic difficulties were determined. Results: A degree of emotional problems and a score of hyperactivity-inattention scale too correspond to antisocial behaviour in boys, similarly in girls (all p<0,001). Further significant differences between groups were found in the psychic difficulties items. Non-risk adolescents suffer from them at least. In girls, risk behaviour relates to anxiosity, sleeping disorders, obtrusive thoughts (all p<0,001), and exhaustion (p<0,01); the most often in the group with antisocial behaviour. In boys, the group with antisocial behaviour also suffers the most often – from anxiosity, irascibility and exhaustion; and then the syndrome group from obtrusive thoughts and loss of appetite (all p<0,01). Conclusion: Psychic difficulties are related to risk behaviour. Involvement in risk behaviour does not mean that these individuals are not capable of prosocial behaviour. |
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