The Relationships among Adolescents' Attitudes toward Risk Behaviors, Perceived Benefits and Costs, and their Risk Behaviors

Original Article

Journal of the Korean Home Economics Association 2005;43(7):147-158.

청소년의 위험행동에 대한 태도, 지각된 이득 및 소실과 위험행동간의 관계

Jin-Min Lee

Dept. of Child and Family Studies, Kyungpook National University

ABSTRACT

This study investigated the relations of adolescents' attitudes toward risk behaviors, perceived benefits and costs, and their risk behaviors. The subjects were 955 high school freshmen in the DaeguKyungpook area. The major findings were as follows. (1) Adolescents' attitudes toward risk behaviors were positively associated with the perceived benefits of adolescent risk behaviors, but these were negatively associated with the perceived costs of adolescent risk behaviors. (2) Compared to boys, girls had more positive attitudes toward adolescent drinking. In addition, girls perceived more benefits but less costs of adolescent risk behaviors than did boys. (3) There were no gender differences in the relationships between dependent variables and adolescent risk behaviors.

Keywords: 위험행동, risk behaviors, 위험행동에 대한 태도, attitudes toward risk behaviors, 지각된 이득, perceived benefits, 지각된 손실, perceived costs, 성차, gender differences