In adolescence, health-related behaviors and protective factors influenced them represent a
primordial preoccupation concerning prevention. Among health-risk behaviors, smoking and …

Among the factors affecting adolescent health behaviors, coping mechanisms have a
significant effect on decisions regarding health behaviors. In the frame of coping …

Psychological variables such as self-efficacy, stress, and coping have proven their predictive
power on health protective and health risk behaviour in adolescence and adulthood …

This chapter reports partial results of an extensive research project called Health-Enhancing
and Health-Threatening Behaviour: Determinants, Models, and Consequences. This project …

This study investigates the importance of psychological concepts with regard to health-
related behaviour in elementary school children based on self-report data of 802 second …

In recent years health promotion is a matter of great interest among researchers in the field
of social sciences. The aim of the present study was to identify patterns of health related …

Self-perceived health gets an important role in investigating adolescents' health status that is
closely connected with objective health status as well as with subjective well-being and the …

Health Behavior of Adolescents in Negative Life Events, Social Support, and Protective and
Risk Behavior. The examination of the health-behaviour of adolescents is in the focus of the …

Adolescence is a critical life period in the perspective of health behavior. This life period is
marked by the crystallization of the health related behaviors and their integration in the …

The purpose of the present exploratory study was twofold:(a) to investigate the relationship
among parents' and children's knowledge regarding health enhancing behaviors, self …