Identifying Russian and Finnish adolescents' problem behaviours
Purpose The purpose of the paper is to show that a syndrome of problem behaviours, i.e. early substance abuse, school and family problems and sexual promiscuity impairs normal development in adolescence. This comparative study looked for differences in the problem behaviour profiles of 15‐year‐old a...
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cremerald:10.1108/09654280710716897 2024-06-09T07:47:25+00:00 Identifying Russian and Finnish adolescents' problem behaviours Kemppainen, Ulla Tossavainen, Kerttu Vartiainen, Erkki Puska, Pekka Jokela, Veikko Pantelejev, Vladimir Uhanov, Mihail 2007 http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/09654280710716897 http://www.emeraldinsight.com/doi/full-xml/10.1108/09654280710716897 https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/09654280710716897/full/xml https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/09654280710716897/full/html en eng Emerald https://www.emerald.com/insight/site-policies Health Education volume 107, issue 1, page 81-98 ISSN 0965-4283 journal-article 2007 cremerald https://doi.org/10.1108/09654280710716897 2024-05-15T13:21:42Z Purpose The purpose of the paper is to show that a syndrome of problem behaviours, i.e. early substance abuse, school and family problems and sexual promiscuity impairs normal development in adolescence. This comparative study looked for differences in the problem behaviour profiles of 15‐year‐old adolescents in the Pitkäranta district in Russia and in eastern Finland, in order to develop more effective strategies for adolescents' health promotion. Design/methodology/approach Data from the Russian Pitkäranta Youth Study ( n =385) and the Finnish North Karelia Youth Study ( n =2098) were used. A K‐means clustering algorithm was used to identify homogenous groups of adolescents based on variation in selected health behaviour variables. Findings The paper finds that four different profiles including the variables of current smoking, first smoking experiments, first drinking experiments, experiences of drunkenness and sexual experiences were identified. The identified profiles, titled “Non‐ or late experimenters”, “Middle experimenters”, “Early experimenters” and “Child experimenters”, were found to be distinct across gender, country and other external variables. Adolescents more often in Pitkäranta than in eastern Finland belonged to “Non‐ or late experimenters” of minimal risk‐taking behaviours. Unhealthy dietary habits, use of illegal drugs, psychosomatic disorders and problems with parents were more common among “Early experimenters” and Child experimenters”. These findings added to the evidence of grouping of problem behaviours. Research limitations/implications The paper shows that there is a need to develop and implement tailored and coordinated health promotion programs for specific target groups of adolescents. Obviously, adolescents with a high level of risk‐taking behaviours would benefit from programs that acknowledge their cultural expectations in their everyday life contexts. Practical implications This paper describes a cross‐sectional comparison of health surveys among adolescents in two countries. ... Article in Journal/Newspaper karelia* karelia* Emerald Pitkäranta ENVELOPE(27.464,27.464,66.737,66.737) Health Education 107 1 81 98 |
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Purpose The purpose of the paper is to show that a syndrome of problem behaviours, i.e. early substance abuse, school and family problems and sexual promiscuity impairs normal development in adolescence. This comparative study looked for differences in the problem behaviour profiles of 15‐year‐old adolescents in the Pitkäranta district in Russia and in eastern Finland, in order to develop more effective strategies for adolescents' health promotion. Design/methodology/approach Data from the Russian Pitkäranta Youth Study ( n =385) and the Finnish North Karelia Youth Study ( n =2098) were used. A K‐means clustering algorithm was used to identify homogenous groups of adolescents based on variation in selected health behaviour variables. Findings The paper finds that four different profiles including the variables of current smoking, first smoking experiments, first drinking experiments, experiences of drunkenness and sexual experiences were identified. The identified profiles, titled “Non‐ or late experimenters”, “Middle experimenters”, “Early experimenters” and “Child experimenters”, were found to be distinct across gender, country and other external variables. Adolescents more often in Pitkäranta than in eastern Finland belonged to “Non‐ or late experimenters” of minimal risk‐taking behaviours. Unhealthy dietary habits, use of illegal drugs, psychosomatic disorders and problems with parents were more common among “Early experimenters” and Child experimenters”. These findings added to the evidence of grouping of problem behaviours. Research limitations/implications The paper shows that there is a need to develop and implement tailored and coordinated health promotion programs for specific target groups of adolescents. Obviously, adolescents with a high level of risk‐taking behaviours would benefit from programs that acknowledge their cultural expectations in their everyday life contexts. Practical implications This paper describes a cross‐sectional comparison of health surveys among adolescents in two countries. ... |
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