Hopelessness and risk behaviour among adolescents living in high-poverty inner-city neighbourhoods
Hopelessness and risk behaviour among adolescents living in high-poverty inner-city neighbourhoods
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DOI：
10.1016/s0140-1971(02)00136-7
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发表时间：
2003-04-01
影响因子：
3.8
通讯作者：
Bolland, JM
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作者：
Bolland, JM
关于市中心生活的民族志文献认为，青少年对不确定的未来的反应是放弃希望，导致他们从事高水平的危险行为。然而，很少有定量研究证明这种关系。这项研究通过对 2468 名市中心青少年的调查来测试这种关系，询问他们有关绝望、暴力和攻击行为、药物使用、性行为和意外伤害的问题。近 50% 的男性和 25% 的女性有中度或重度的绝望感。此外，对所考虑的每种危险行为都预测了绝望。这些结果表明，针对内城区青少年的有效预防和干预计划应通过提高使他们能够克服绝望的局限性的技能来消除绝望。 (C) 2003 年青少年服务专业人员协会。由爱思唯尔科学有限公司出版。保留所有权利。
Ethnographic literature on inner-city life argues that adolescents react to their uncertain futures by abandoning hope, leading them to engage in high levels of risk behaviour. However, few quantitative studies demonstrate this relationship. This study tests this relationship using a survey of 2468 inner-city adolescents, asking them questions about hopelessness, violent and aggressive behaviour, substance use, sexual behaviour, and accidental injury. Nearly 50% of males and 25% of females had moderate or severe feelings of hopelessness. Moreover, hopelessness predicted of each of the risk behaviours considered. These results suggest that effective prevention and intervention programmes aimed at inner-city adolescents should target hopelessness by promoting skills that allow them to overcome the limitations of hopelessness. (C) 2003 The Association for Professionals in Services for Adolescents. Published by Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.