Conformity and risk behaviour among Czech and American Adolescents

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.21125/edulearn.2016.0746" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.21125/edulearn.2016.0746</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.21125/edulearn.2016.0746" target="_blank" >10.21125/edulearn.2016.0746</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Conformity and risk behaviour among Czech and American Adolescents

Original language description

The essence of the research is a transcultural analysis of conformity among two groups of adolescents (American and Czech). The prominent goal of the research was to take a look to the phenomenon of general conformity, peer conformity, peer pressure and popularity as well finding how risk behavior is related to the mentioned manifestations of group behavior. The partial goal of the research was to find out the inner consistence among the scales of the questionnaire which could contribute deeper psychological grasp of the connections. There was a particular accent on the cultural, age and sex differences among the Czech and American adolescents. The participants were students aged 19-21. The comparison of the result among the adolescents of a different sex has shown some interesting information. The statistical analysis showed that men perceive the peer pressure more than the girls. The young men are predisposed to the risk activities than the young girls. We understand that as a manifestation of identification of the young men with the adults while they often experiment with situations and activities marked as risk such as alcohol, smoking etc. On the other hand the girls are more submissive than the men who can explain the presence and the domination of the both phenomenon of conformity. The other analysis assumed search of the essential statistical argumentation of the relations between the peer pressure, popularity, general conformity, and peer conformity and risk behavior. This group of variables was compared with the age and the sex as independent factors of the social behavior of the adolescent. The results we obtained showed that the scales are consistent.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

D - Article in proceedings

CEP classification

AN - Psychology

OECD FORD branch

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Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach<br>I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2016

Confidentiality

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

Article name in the collection

EDULEARN16 Proceedings

ISBN

978-84-608-8860-4

ISSN

2340-1117

e-ISSN

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Number of pages

8

Pages from-to

7959-7966

Publisher name

International Association of Technology, Education and Development (IATED)

Place of publication

Madrid

Event location

Barcelona, Spain

Event date

Jul 4, 2016

Type of event by nationality

EUR - Evropská akce

UT code for WoS article

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