청소년의 스트레스 스트레스 대처방식과 위험행동

Stress, Stress Coping Strategies and Risk Behaviors

  Adolescents" risk behaviors have been studied in may ways. Unique developmental characteristics of adolescence and rapidly changing social environment have drawn attention to explore factors that influence adolescents" risk-taking behaviors. This study examined how stress and stress coping strategies of high school students influence their problem behavior such as internet abuse, smoking, drinking, running-away attempts, and suicidal thinking. Two hundred sixty eight self questionnaires were finally analyzed using SPSSWIN 10.0.   Results showed that adolescents" internet abuse rate(using internet for game and viewing pornography, covert use) was rather high among male adolescents. 23.7% of respondents have experienced smoking, 16.4% current smokers, 85.2% are drinkers with 33.6% binge drinkers, 18.8% have ever actually ran-away, 36.3% have thought about suicide, the data presented Avoidance coping and self-related stress are factors to influence adolescent smoking; family related stress, peer-related stress, and avoidance coping to running away; and elevation of overall stress is a factor to explain suicidal thinking among adolescents.   Limitations of the present study and ideas for the further research are suggested.