| Abstract [eng] |
The relationship between health risk behaviours, identity, and resilience among late adolescence, Urtė Čepukonytė, Vilnius, Vilnius University, 2018, p. 53. The aim of this work is to assess the relationship between the types of health risk behaviors of adolescents (smoking, alcohol use, drug use, unsafe sexual behavior) and to determine how these relationships relate to the individual context of adolescents i.e. identity and resilience. To determine late (16-19 years) adolescents (N = 192) health risk behaviors was used the health risk Inventory (Health Risk Behaviors Inventory; Irish 2011), measure identity was used Identity inventory (EOMEIS-II: Objective Measure of Ego Identity Status, the extended version; Bennion, Adams, 1986), determine resilience – resilience scale (Resilience Scale for Adults (RSA) (Hjmedal, Friborg, Martinussen & Rosenvinge, 2001). The health risk behaviour of older adolescents was found to be higher in alcohol use and drug use and unsafe sexual behavior are positively related to each other. Health risk behaviour types: smoking, alcohol and drug use, and unsafe sexual behavior are positively related to each other, the status of achieved identity is positively related to resilience, smoking is negatively related to planned future and social resources; alcohol use is negatively related to planned future; the drug use are negatively related to family cohesion and positive to social resources; unsafe sexual behavior is positively related to social competence; the achieved identity is not negatively related to types of health risk behaviour; 18-19 year-olds are more likely to be at risk for general health risk behavior, smoking, unsafe sexual behavior, and adolescents aged 16-17 have more family cohesion; drug use predicts unsafe sexual behavior; negative perception of self predicts smoking; negative planned future predicts alcohol use, high social competence of self and older age predict unsafe sexual behavior; resilience does not predict the status of achieved identity. |
