Exploring effects of multi-level factors on transitions of risk-taking behaviors among middle-to-late adolescents.

ABSTRACT: Adolescents experiment with risk behaviors, including delinquency, substance use, and sexual activity. Multi-level social factors, such as having high-risk peers, neighborhood risks, and parental monitoring, influence adolescents' behaviors. We modeled transition patterns in Bahamian adolescents' risk behaviors across three high school years and examined the effects of multi-level factors. We collected data from 2,564 Bahamian adolescents in Grade 10 and follow-ups through Grade 12. We used latent transition model to identify adolescents' risk statuses. Further analyses used multinomial logistic regression to explore the effects of multi-level factors on assignment to those latent statuses and transitions. We identified four distinct statuses: "low risk" (47.9% of the sample at baseline),

SUBMITTER: Guo Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10516360 | biostudies-literature | 2023 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature