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Risk Behaviours in Adolescence: Prediction Cognitive and Psychosocial

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 April 2020

C.M. Sousa Albuquerque ,
V.D. Franco ,
C.P. Ferreira O Albuquerque  and
C.P. Baptista Mota
C.M. Sousa Albuquerque
Affiliation:
Escola Superior de Saúde de Viseu, Viseu, Évora
V.D. Franco
Affiliation:
University of the Évora, Portugal, Évora
C.P. Ferreira O Albuquerque
Affiliation:
Hospital of São Teotónio, Portugal
C.P. Baptista Mota
Affiliation:
Rehabilitation, Escola Superior de Saúde de Viseu, Viseu, Portugal

Abstract

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This investigation's main goal was to determine if some psychosocial (self-concept, control locus, assertiveness and satisfaction towards social support) and cognitive variables (health beliefs and attitudes towards health) were associated to health related behaviours. The sample was constituted by 829 teenagers, 382 male and 447 female, whose average age is 14.66 years old, who attended the 9th grade of the public and daily schools in the district of Viseu, Portugal.

Results:

  1. 1. Study on the association between health and risk behaviours and psychosocial variables: The better the self-concept, the better the behaviours; The higher the satisfaction with social support, the better the behaviours; The higher the assertiveness, the better the behaviours; The association between control locus and healthy and risk behaviours is not significant.

  2. 2. Study on the association between health and risk behaviours and cognitive variables: The more favourable the attitudes towards health, the better the behaviours; The more adequate the health beliefs, the better the behaviours.

  3. 3. Study on the psychosocial variables interaction effects with cognitive variables in health and risk behaviour prediction: The interaction variable was revealed as the best health and risk behaviour predictor is the variable resulting from Factor 1 - behavioural aspect (Self-Concept) and Factor 4 - preventive attitude (Attitudes Towards Health) interaction, with a determination coefficient (R2) of .409. The patterned coefficient analysis Beta (beta=.427) indicates that the higher this interaction effect (F1 - behavioural aspect * F4 - preventive attitude) the better the behaviours.

Type
P02-18
Information
European Psychiatry , Volume 24 , Issue S1: 17th EPA Congress - Lisbon, Portugal, January 2009, Abstract book , January 2009 , 24-E708
Copyright
Copyright © European Psychiatric Association 2009
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