Risk Behavior Among Slovak and Czech Adolescents Through the Lens of Self-Regulation, Prosociality, and Antisociality

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.35198/01-2024-003-0002" target="_blank" >10.35198/01-2024-003-0002</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Risk Behavior Among Slovak and Czech Adolescents Through the Lens of Self-Regulation, Prosociality, and Antisociality

Original language description

INTRODUCTION: In the present article, we focused on the relationship between risk behavior in adolescents, self-regulation, prosociality and antisociality. We work under the assumption that the development of the ability to self-regulate facilitates processes of internalization, thereby strengthening the conscious effort toward prosocial behavior and the reduction in antisocial tendencies. This creates suitable conditions for minimizing risk behaviors typical for adolescence. METHODS: Our research sample consisted of 3,092 adolescents enrolled in upper secondary education (ISCED 3) in Slovakia and Czechia, ranging in age from 15 to 19 (M = 16.81, SD = 1.11). We collected data using 4 questionnaires/ scales: the Occurrence of Adolescents Risk Behavior, the Risk Behavior Scale, the Prosocial Tendency Measure-Revised, and the Self-regulation Questionnaire. All used methods were available in both Slovak and Czech with acceptable values of reliability. RESULTS: The main result of our statistical analysis is the output from the regression analysis. We found that age, sex, nationality, altruism, antisocial behavior and self-regulation were predictors of risk behavior in adolescents. The adjusted R2 coefficient explained approximately 18 % of the variability. CONCLUSION: Our data supported the predicted relationship between the test variables. Specifically, we found that a higher probability of risk behavior in adolescents between theage 15 to 19 exists in older adolescents, girls (small difference), those with weaker self-regulation ability, higher antisocial tendencies, and lower prosociality.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_SC - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50101 - Psychology (including human - machine relations)

Project

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Continuities

N - Vyzkumna aktivita podporovana z neverejnych zdroju

Publication year

2024

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Adiktologie

ISSN

1213-3841

e-ISSN

2570-8112

Volume of the periodical

24

Issue of the periodical within the volume

3

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

10

Pages from-to

205-214

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-105007316183