Adolescents at Risk
Psychosomatic health complaints, low life satisfaction, excessive sugar consumption and their relationship with cumulative risks

Publication date: 2016_13
Publication series:
Innocenti Working Papers
No. of pages: 32
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Abstract
Adolescence is a time of transitions when experimentation,
risk taking and active peer interactions can be viewed as a part of the development
process. Yet, for some groups of young people with reported poor psychosomatic
health, low life satisfaction or unhealthy eating habits these experiences may
be different. Empirical evidence is limited for recognising the overlapping and
cumulative risks of adolescents’ health disadvantage and multiple externalized
risk behaviours and outcomes (smoking, drinking, binge drinking, regular
fighting, injuries and bullying). Drawing on the most recent 2013/2014 data of the
Health Behaviour of School Children (HBSC) study, this paper examines the risks
of individual and cumulative risks (three or more types) associated with being
in the bottom group of psychosomatic health complaints, life satisfaction and
unhealthy eating (excessive sugar consumption) across 29 countries.
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