Older adolescents reported more Sexual
Risk Behavior at baseline.
Hierarchical Logistic Regression of Parent Connectedness and Mother — Child Communication Effects on Sexual
Risk Behavior at Wave 2 (N = 2,207)
At initial entry in step 2, adolescents reporting higher levels of parent connectedness at Wave 1 were less likely to engage in sexual
risk behavior at Wave 2, B = — 0.17, SE = 0.07, p =.008, odds ratio = 0.84.
Parent participation in the intervention was significantly associated with less Sexual
Risk Behavior at 18 - months in the bivariate analysis.
Older adolescents also had higher odds of reporting sexual
risk behavior at Wave 2, B = 0.14, SE = 0.04, p <.001, odds ratio = 1.15.
In the first step, adolescents who reported sexual
risk behavior at Wave 1 had higher odds reporting sexual
risk behavior at Wave 2, B = 0.61, SE = 0.09, p <.001, odds ratio = 1.78.
Greater participation by MLH predicted fewer family conflicts, and was indirectly associated with less adolescent sexual
risk behavior at the 18 month follow - up assessment.
African - American adolescents in the sample were younger, reported less supportive friendships at both waves of measurement, reported higher levels of parent connectedness at both waves of measurement, and were less likely to engage in sexual
risk behavior at Wave 2.
More boys reported engaging in sexual
risk behavior at Wave 1, but there were no gender differences in sexual risk at Wave 2.
Parent participation was significantly and negatively associated with Sexual
Risk Behavior at baseline (−.23).
Hierarchical Logistic Regression of Interactive Family - peer Effects on Sexual
Risk Behavior at Wave 2 (N = 2,652)
Objective To examine the long - term effects of an intervention combining teacher training, parent education, and social competence training for children during the elementary grades on adolescent health -
risk behaviors at age 18 years.
Not exact matches
Whether the employee simply has a knack for always saying the worst possible thing or the
behavior puts your business
at risk for a sexual harassment claim, it's important to do something about the employee as soon as possible.
«Our overall mood influences our willingness to take
risks,» said Victor Ricciardi, finance professor
at Goucher College and co-editor of the book «Investor
Behavior: The Psychology of Financial Planning and Investing.»
Terry Kurzynski, senior partner
at security firm Halock Security Labs, said that smart entities perform enterprise - wide
risk assessments to find where their systems are most vulnerable and to spot aberrations in user
behavior.
But millennials are more likely to be exposed to the technologies that display this kind of spending
behavior, he said, which puts them
at higher
risk for irresponsible spending.
One study looked
at the
behavior of about 60,000 investors from 1991 to 2002 and found that people took greater market
risks when their party controlled Washington.
Far better to focus on the
behavior of the «
at -
risk» customers.
That occurs
at the point that investors begin a subtle shift toward
risk - aversion, which we read through the
behavior of market internals.
At higher interest rates, banks would have more options to generate returns while taking less
risk (Federal Reserve's ultra-low rates have pushed financial market participants into riskier
behaviors such as taking higher interest rate
risk, credit
risk, etc):
Kogan wrote in the email that he wanted to create statistical models that could accurately identify people
at risk for various diseases and illnesses by examining their Web browsing and purchase
behaviors, and combine that with medical data from Harvard.
That sort of
behavior is typical of pre-recession market action, and though we're still not yet
at the point where a recession appears inevitable, the
risks continue to mount.
We do not get
at (or «interfere with») the underlying
behavior driving the epidemic; we simply reduce the
risk or harm by providing condoms, clean needles, treating the curable sexually transmitted diseases, etc..
CNN: My Take: Catholic bishops» election
behavior threatens their authority Vincent Miller, Gudorf Chair of Catholic Theology and Culture
at the University of Dayton., argues that «By putting voters in a «with us or against us» bind, some of America's bishops have
risked eroding their own authority.»
As GLBTQ folks experiment, trying to satisfy the unsatisfiable, they begin to pursue extremely unhealthy
behaviors that place them
at high
risk, way beyond the straight population, for the transmission and reception of fatal and debilitating illnesses.
Because studies show that one - off concussion education isn't enough to change concussion symptom reporting
behavior, Step Three in the SmartTeams Play SafeTM #TeamUp4 ConcussionSafetyTM game plan calls for coaches, athletes, athletic trainers, team doctors (and,
at the youth and high school level, parents) to attend a mandatoryconcussion safety meeting before every sports season to learn in detail about the importance of immediate concussion symptom reporting, not just in minimizing the
risks concussions pose to an athlete's short - and long - term health, but in increasing the chances for individual and team success.
Why Family Therapy Works for Teens What is Youth
At -
Risk Behavior?
Uninvolved parenting is associated with the worst outcomes for children: Kids who are raised with this style of parenting tend to be emotionally withdrawn, anxious and may be
at greater
risk for delinquent and dangerous
behaviors as well as substance abuse.
It is a worry for parents that too many high school students nationwide continue to practice
behaviors that place them
at risk for serious health problems.
Volunteering promotes healthy lifestyle and choices — children that volunteer are less likely to use drugs, drink alcohol or participate in other
at -
risk behaviors
Most teens don't get enough sleep, putting them
at greater
risk for a slew of unhealthy
behaviors, from physical inactivity to fighting.
Sleepy Teens More Likely to Have Risky
Behavior Most teens don't get enough sleep, putting them
at greater
risk for a slew of unhealthy
behaviors, from physical inactivity to fighting.
The «Hidden In Plain Sight» initiative helps parents spot signs of
at -
risk behaviors using an interactive display of a teenager's bedroom.
Rather than dismissing schoolyard bullying as «a phase» that children will eventually outgrow, parents have the unique opportunity to alter these
behaviors by helping young children overcome the very fears, anxieties, and insecurity that place them
at risk.
For future research, Berlin is looking
at programs that work with low - income or high -
risk families and try to promote supportive parenting
behaviors.
They are
at increased
risk of experiencing depression, anxiety disorder, and psychological distress, especially if they face up to the seriousness of their bullying
behavior.
Parents in
at -
risk families who completed the Start Smart program with their child reported more positive parenting attitudes and
behaviors, as well as better parent - child relationships.
We are aware that these
behaviors put infants and mothers
at risk for multiple health and social problems.
Genetic / epigenetic knowledge is important for determining whether there are
at -
risk women for negative postpartum mood or poor mothering
behaviors after exposure to certain birth interventions or birth experiences affecting the oxytocin system.
Attachment - based intervention for enhancing sensitive discipline in mothers of 1 - to 3 - year - old children
at risk for externalizing
behavior problems: a randomized controlled trial.
You can always find examples of women who smoked around their kids who did not die of SIDS — remember,
risk is calculated by looking
at the
behavior of large numbers of people, not individuals.
Some children suffer from conditions that put them
at higher
risk for both
behavior problems and difficulties forming attachment relationships.
I do want to say that if your family members continue to respond to you and your daughter in this negative way then it places her
at higher
risk for low self - esteem, depression, and high -
risk behaviors.
Given the large number of children who were co-sleeping yet did not succumb to SIDS, the authors wondered whether co-sleeping alone had put children
at risk for sudden death or a combination of
behaviors.
Additionally, adolescents in single - mother and single - father families are
at higher
risk of risky
behaviors, victimization, and mental distress compared to those in two - parent families.
If your child regularly plays games with plots based on violence and aggression, research shows he is
at risk for increased aggressive
behavior.
These studies are
at risk for selection bias both of cases and of control individuals and their results might be influenced by potential confounders such as other health
behaviors that may be independently associated both with breastfeeding and childhood leukemia
risk, although this is of course not limited to case - control studies.
Infants with untreated torticollis may be
at increased
risk for early motor delay, global delay, impaired balance and coordination, delay in acquisition of gross motor skills, and reinforcement of altered movement patterns due to adaptive motor
behavior.
Part of the reason kids are more
at risk is because of the type of
behavior they engage in.
Without healthy relationships, humans are
at a definite
risk for social and learning disabilities, mental illness, and unhealthy, risky
behaviors used to fill the void left by the unmet needs in the first attachment relationship — that with each child's primary caregiver.