Unhealthy Behaviors in Adolescents: Multibehavioral Associations with Psychosocial Problems
Unhealthy Behaviors in Adolescents: Multibehavioral Associations with Psychosocial Problems
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DOI：
10.1007/s12529-013-9316-z
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发表时间：
2014-06-01
影响因子：
2.7
通讯作者：
De Leeuw, Johannes Robertus Josephus
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作者：
Busch, Vincent;De Leeuw, Johannes Robertus Josephus
一些不健康的行为与青少年的社会心理健康有关。以往的研究表明，不同的青少年健康行为聚集在一起，为了了解这些关联，研究个体行为与心理社会问题之间的关系是很重要的。这项研究解决了“青少年健康行为是否与心理社会问题相关，以及某些健康行为在多大程度上混淆了其他健康行为与青少年心理社会问题之间的关系”这一研究问题。2012年9月，从荷兰的2,690名高中生中收集了关于广泛健康行为和人口统计数据的自我报告问卷数据。在调整了人口统计学特征后，几乎所有的不健康行为都被发现与社会心理问题显著相关。然而，在纠正了其他行为的混淆后，社会心理问题与更少的行为有关，即强迫性上网和玩电子游戏、吸烟、使用大麻和被欺负。这些关联在男孩和女孩中有所不同。在对行为聚类进行调整的多行为分析中，可能导致相当大的行为间混淆，一些行为与青少年的社会心理问题有关。这种行为分析方法可以更好地了解行为和心理健康，确定的特定关联可以在设计有效的预防方案时使用，例如促进健康的学校干预措施。
Several unhealthy behaviors are associated with psychosocial health in adolescents. Previous studies have shown that different adolescent health behaviors cluster, and, in order to understand these associations, it is important to investigate the relations between individual behaviors and psychosocial problems.This study addressed the research question "Are adolescent health behaviors associated with psychosocial problems, and to what extent do certain health behaviors confound the relations between other health behaviors and psychosocial problems in adolescents?"Self-reported questionnaire data on a broad range of health behaviors and demographics were collected from 2,690 high school students in the Netherlands in September 2012.After adjustment for demographic characteristics, nearly all unhealthy behaviors were found to be significantly associated with psychosocial problems. However, after correction for confounding by other behaviors, psychosocial problems were associated with fewer behaviors, namely compulsive internet use and videogame playing, smoking, cannabis use, and being bullied. These associations differed in boys and girls.In multibehavioral analyses adjusted for behavioral clustering, which can cause considerable interbehavioral confounding, several behaviors were associated with psychosocial problems in adolescents. This approach to behavior analysis provides a better insight into behaviors and psychosocial health, and the specific associations identified can be utilized when designing effective prevention programs, such as health-promoting school interventions.