Is risk-taking behaviour more prevalent among adolescents with learning disabilities?

0479311 - PSÚ 2018 RIV GB eng J - Journal Article
Palfiová, M. - Dankulinčová Veselská, Z. - Bobaková, D. - Holubčíková, J. - Čermák, Ivo - Madarasová Gecková, A. - van Dijk, J.P. - Reijneveld, S. A.
Is risk-taking behaviour more prevalent among adolescents with learning disabilities?
European Journal of Public Health. Roč. 27, č. 3 (2017), s. 501-506. ISSN 1101-1262. E-ISSN 1464-360X
Institutional support: RVO:68081740
Keywords : adolescence * learning disabilities * risk taking behaviour
OECD category: Psychology (including human - machine relations)
Impact factor: 2.782, year: 2017

The aim of the study was to assess the associations between learning disabilities status and risk taking behaviours among Slovak adolescents and to explore whether family affluence and family composition have a moderating or mediating role in these associations. Data from the Slovak national HBSC study 2014 were analyzed. The sample comprised 1549 15-year-old adolescents. Adolescents with learning disabilitie are at high risk of early sexual experiences, fighting and bullying but not of smoking initiation, drunkenness or truancy. Non-intact and poor families do not increase the risks associated with learning diabilities status of adolescents, however, in these families adolescents with learning disabilities are more prevalent.
Permanent Link: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0275312