Adolescent Health-Risk and Problem Behavior

Valois, Robert F.; Kammermann, Sandra K.; Valois, Aubrie A.

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-69909-7_31-2

Robert F. Valois^2,3,4,
Sandra K. Kammermann^5,4 &
Aubrie A. Valois⁴

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Adolescent Problem and Health Risk Behaviors: Risk behaviors, Health-risk behaviors, Health-compromising behavior, Antisocial behavior, Delinquency, Deviant behavior, Defiant behavior, At-risk-youth and behavior emanating from a lack of youth developmental assets

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Problem behavior is socially defined as a problem, as a source of concern, or as undesirable by the social and/or legal norms of conventional society and its institutions of authority. Problem behavior usually elicits some form of social control response, whether minimal, such as a statement of disapproval, or extreme, such as incarceration (Jessor 1991; Jessor et al. 1991). The concept of “problem behavior” has been extended in the adolescent health literature to include risk behaviors, health-risk behaviors, health-compromising behavior, antisocial behavior, and behavior emanating from a lack of youth developmental assets (Valois 2003, 2013; Valois et al. 2014).

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Valois, R.F., Kammermann, S.K., Valois, A.A. (2020). Adolescent Health-Risk and Problem Behavior. In: Maggino, F. (eds) Encyclopedia of Quality of Life and Well-Being Research. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69909-7_31-2

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