Adolescent Intentions Research Articles

The Uptake of Human Papillomavirus Vaccination and Its Associated Factors Among Adolescents: A Systematic Review.

Background: The purpose of this review was to explore the uptake of the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination, its associated factors, and the facilitators of and barriers to HPV vaccination among adolescents. Methods: A comprehensive literature search was conducted through 5 electronic databases, including PubMed, CINAHL, Cochrane Library, Medline, and PsycInfo from January 2006 to March 2015 for studies examining the uptake, awareness, knowledge, acceptability, and intention of adolescents with regard to HPV vaccination. Results: Twenty-eight studies were identified and included. The HPV vaccination uptake rate (at least 1 dose) varied significantly among countries, ranging from 2.4% to 94.4%. Scotland achieved the highest uptake of all the studies included in this review, while Hong Kong had the lowest, at 2.4% to 9.1%. This review also showed that adolescents had limited awareness and knowledge of HPV infections and vaccines, even 10 years after the vaccine had become available. Conclusions: It is recommended that barriers to the uptake of the vaccine should be addressed, and that school-based sexual health education of HPV infection and vaccine promotion should be reinforced.

Examining the emerging entrepreneurial mindset in adolescence: A study in Nigeria.

This study investigated the relationship of family environment, network, parental socio-economic status, self-efficacy and proactive personality on entrepreneurial intention of secondary school adolescents and the mediating role of self-efficacy. The participants were 250 secondary school SS2 adolescents randomly selected from six secondary schools in Ibadan Metropolis, Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria. Structural Equation Modelling was used to analyse the data obtained from the participants. The results showed that all the contextual and individual factors had significant relationship with entrepreneurial intention and self-efficacy partially mediated the relationship. It was suggested that counselling psychologists should consider the contextual and individual variables while assisting students in building their entrepreneurial intention.

Rejection sensitivity in adolescents with major depression

Rejection sensitivity (RS) is defined as the disposition to anxiously expect rejection, to perceive it as likely, and to overreact to it. Former studies showed heightened RS in clinically depressed adults and identified it as a predictor for symptoms of depression in adolescents. However, to date there are no studies examining RS as a disposition in adolescents with clinical Depression. In the present study, we compared differences in RS and behavioral intentions in depressive and healthy adolescents after a rejection situation. We included n = 28 adolescents with depression and n = 32 healthy control participants between the ages of 12–17 and applied a German version of the Children’s Rejection Sensitivity Questionnaire “CRSQ”. It was found that, compared to controls, depressive adolescents show higher RS, are more anxious about rejection, and rate the likelihood of being rejected higher. Furthermore, adolescents with depression more often indicated to resign to rejection and blame themselves for it than their healthy counterparts. Our results are in concordance with the clinical picture and with cognitive theories of the disorder. In future studies, it would be important to examine whether corresponding interventions can have a positive impact on the course of the disease.

The effectiveness of narrative versus informational smoking education on smoking beliefs, attitudes and intentions of low-educated adolescents

Objective: This study tests the effectiveness of narrative versus informational smoking education on smoking beliefs, attitudes and intentions of low-educated adolescents.Design: A field experiment with three waves of data collection was conducted. Participants (N = 256) were students who attend lower secondary education. At the first and third waves, they completed a questionnaire. At the second wave, 50.8% of the participants read a smoking education booklet in narrative form and 49.2% read a booklet in informational form. After reading, all participants also completed a questionnaire at wave 2.Main outcome measures: Beliefs about negative consequences of smoking, attitudes towards smoking and intentions to smoke were measured.Results: Repeated measures analyses with time as a within-subjects factor and condition as a between-subjects factor showed that beliefs about smoking were more negative at Wave 2 compared to Wave 1, irrespective of condition. However, attitudes towards smoking were more positive at Wave 3 compared to Wave 1 when participants had read the narrative version.Conclusion: These results show that narrative smoking education is not more effective than informational smoking education for low-educated adolescents and can even have an unintended effect for this target group by making attitudes towards smoking more positive.

청소년의 기업가정신이 창업의지에 미치는 영향: 사회적 지원세력의 조절효과를 중심으로

This study is carrying out an empirical analysis on the effect of youth entrepreneurship on entrepreneurial intentions of adolescents. As indicated in preceding researches, the study divided youth entrepreneurship into risk taking, innovativeness and proactiveness. And it analyzed the effect of the youth entrepreneurship on adolescents` entrepreneurial intentions focused on moderating effect of social support. The results of an empirical analysis for 251 adolescents living in Suncheon are as follows: First, as youth entrepreneurship, risk taking, innovativeness, and proactiveness positively (+) affected entrepreneurial intentions. This result, as preceding researches put emphasis, means that the fact that as risk taking, innovativeness and proactiveness appear high, entrepreneurial intentions also appear high, applies equally to adolescents as well. Second, as a verification result of moderating effect, social support adjusted the relationship between proactiveness and entrepreneurial intentions positively (+). This result shows that the positive effect of adolescents` proactiveness on entrepreneurial intentions is reinforced by the social support that adolescents hold. It is expected that the results of this study will be able to present a useful implication both theoretically and practically by suggesting that in view of social capital, the relationship between youth entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial intentions of adolescents can depend on social support. This study also focuses on adolescents as the subject of this study, and this subject is very meaningful because future foundation of company would be positively affected by the entrepreneurial intentions grown during an adolescent period. Finally, education for adolescents on entrepreneurship must be important because youth entrepreneurship have positive effect on the entrepreneurial intentions.

Intensi remaja pergi ke kafe susu di Sleman DIY

Intention of teenager in consuming milk at milk cafe of Sleman YogyakartaPurposeThis study aimed to explore the intentions of adolescents who come into the cafe milk in Sleman.MethodsThis study used a qualitative method with an exploratory and phenomenological design, with purposive sampling by considering the prescribed criteria. Informants of this study were thirteen informants. They consisted of nine adolescents, one manager of the cafe, two employees cafe and one academic nutritionist. Data collection was done from March-May 2015 by observation and interviews.ResultsResults showed that intention of adolescents who come to the cafe were for refreshments, using the facilities such as wifi (coursework), and for an organization's activities (meetings). Adolescent attitudes were positive and support the cafe milk and milk consumption behavior. Subjective norms included among others that adolescents wanted to socialize, to be recognized, to share information and build closer relationships with their friends.ConclusionThe health aspect is not the main intention of adolescents to come to the cafe milk. Adolescents come to the cafe milk with different intentions. Adolescents consume the milk in milk cafe because it has many benefits. However, the health benefits were only the last intention. The consumer intention was influenced by the positive attitudes of adolescents towards the cafe milk which includes media promotion of health and the subjective norm of adolescents toward the consumption of milk in the milk cafe.

Relationship between Self-Determination Motivation, Exercise Flow and Exercise Adherence Intention of Adolescents Participating in School Sports Club through the Prior Learning

이 연구는 선행학습을 통해 학교 스포츠클럽에 참여하는 중, 고등학교 학생들의 자기결정성동기와 운동몰입 및 운동지속의도 유형을 파악하고 자기결정성동기와 운동몰입이 운동지속의도에 미치는 상대적인 영향을 조사, 분석하여 학교 스포츠클럽에 참여하는 청소년들의 운동지속의도 향상에 필요한 기초 자료를 제공하는 데 그 목적이 있다.BR 2015~2016년 교육부에 등록되어 있고 서울시와 경기도 지역에 소재하고 있는 중, 고등학교에 재학하고 있는 학생들 중, 선행학습을 통해 학교스포츠 클럽에 참여하고 있는 학생들 157명을 대상으로 자기결정성동기와 운동몰입이 운동지속의도에 미치는 상대적인 영향을 분석한 결과, 다음과 같은 결론을 얻게 되었다.BR 연구대상자 특성별 자기결정성동기는 학교 스포츠클럽에 참여한 경력이 많을수록 내적동기 수준과 내적규제 수준이 높은 것으로 나타났으며, 운동몰입은 경력이 많을수록 인지몰입과 행위몰입 수준인 높은 것으로 나타났고 운동지속의도는 경력이 많을 수록 가능성 수준이 높은 것으로 나타났다.BR 그리고 경향성과 가능성 및 강화성 운동지속의도에 가장 많은 영향을 미치는 자기결정성동기와 운동몰입 및 운동지속의도 하위요인들로서는 내적동기가 가장 영향력이 큰 것으로 나타났으며, 그 다음으로는 내적규제 요인과 행위몰입 요인인 것으로 나타났다.

Understanding adherence to treatment and physical activity in children with hemophilia: The role of psychosocial factors

ABSTRACTThe objective of this study was to identify psychosocial factors to explain intentions of children and adolescents with hemophilia to adhere to recommendations for self-care. Twenty-four patients with hemophilia A and B, aged 6–18 years old, and their parents, completed a survey. Measures assessed factors from the theory of planned behavior, physical activity, and medical treatment adherence. The results indicate that past behaviors, attitudes, and subjective norms explained a large proportion of the intention to engage in future nonrecommended physical activity. This study supports the need to investigate motivational factors underlying behaviors in larger scale studies and identifies targets for future interventions.

‘Vape’ or ‘Not to Vape’: Understanding Adolescent and Young Adult Intention to Smoke

‘Vape’ or ‘Not to Vape’: Understanding Adolescent and Young Adult Intention to Smoke

Association between exposure to sexually explicit content in the electronic media and sexual intentions of in-school adolescents in Southwest Nigeria.

Many adolescents are exposed to a significant amount of sexual content in the media. This has far-reaching effects on their sexual practices as this exposure is occurring at a period when most adolescents are often not sure of the choices to make, and the choices they make during adolescence affect their health when they become adults. The aim of this study was to assess the association between exposure of in-school adolescents to sexual content in the electronic media and their sexual intentions. In this cross-sectional study, information was obtained from 750 senior secondary school students in private and public schools using interviewer-administered questionnaire. Sexual media content in the movies, music video and Internet was assessed using a modified version of the sexual media diet tool. The dependent variable was sexual intention; the main independent variable was exposure to sexually explicit content in the media and confounders that were controlled for selected individual (age, sex, religiosity, self-esteem and attachment to parents), family (parents' marital status, parents' type of marriage, hands-on parenting and parent-adolescent communication on sex) and environmental factors (school connectedness and influence from peers) which were previously reported to be associated with sexual intentions of adolescents. Chi-square test was used to determine associations between sexual content of the electronic media and adolescents' sexual intentions, and confounders were controlled for using logistic regression analysis. Thirty-six percent of respondents were exposed to overtly explicit sexual content from all forms of media in the 3 months prior to this study. Twenty-four percent of the adolescents indicated their intention to have sex within 12 months following the study. Predictors of sexual intention were as follows: moderate [odds ratio, OR=2.21 (95% confidence interval, CI: 1.22-3.99)] and high exposure to sexual content in the media [OR=3.02 (95% CI: 1.69-5.43]; attending a public school [OR=2.19 (95% CI: 1.26-3.83)]; moderate peer pressure [OR=2.36 (95% CI: 1.41-3.95)] and high peer pressure [OR=10.32 (95% CI: 2.94-36.31)]; and previous history of sexual intercourse [OR=3.89 (95% CI: 2.25-6.76)]. Many adolescents were exposed to sexually explicit content in the media and this had a strong association with sexual intention. Interventions to censor sexually explicit content in the media are required to protect adolescents from the consequences of early exposure to sex.

Initiation, influence, and impact: adolescents and parents discuss the marketing of gambling products during Australian sporting matches.

BackgroundHarmful gambling is a significant public health issue. Alongside the rapid diversification of gambling products, are rapid increases in the marketing for specific types of gambling products, such as online wagering. While concern has been raised about the impact of gambling promotions during sporting matches on the gambling beliefs and behaviours of adolescents, very little research has explored adolescents’ and parents’ attitudes towards the marketing of gambling products within sport.MethodsA qualitative study was conducted with 59 family groups comprising of at least one parent and one adolescent (14–18 years old) in Victoria, Australia. Parents and adolescents were interviewed separately and asked questions relating to their gambling attitudes and behaviours. They were then brought together, and advertising reception techniques were utilised to prompt discussions about the marketing of gambling during sport. A thematic approach to analysis was used, constantly comparing similarities and differences between and across groups.ResultsThree main themes emerged. First, was initiation of sport as a platform for the promotion of gambling. Adolescents perceived that the use of embedded promotions (for example during the match) and the use of athletes in gambling promotions were significant mechanisms for creating an alignment between gambling companies and sporting teams and codes. Second, was the influence of marketing messages in creating a perception that gambling was always accessible, and was an integral part of the sporting experience. Third was the impact of marketing messages on adolescent’s discourses about sport. Parents described that they had noticed that wagering, and ‘odds’ discussions, had become embedded in adolescents narratives about sporting matches.Discussion and conclusionsGambling marketing during sport has significantly increased. While the gambling industry states that it does not aim to intentionally target young people, adolescents are increasingly aware of the relationship between gambling and sport. Future research should explore the impacts and influence of gambling promotions during sport on the gambling attitudes and consumption intentions of adolescents. Effective public health policy is needed to develop comprehensive regulatory frameworks to protect young people from unnecessary exposure to the marketing for this potentially harmful adult product.

Effects of Exergaming and Message Framing in School Environments on Physical Activity Attitudes and Intentions of Children and Adolescents

Although interventions targeting the health of students in schools are becoming common, few studies have examined how health messages operate at the group level in school environments. This study examines the effects of message-based health interventions (extrinsic vs. intrinsic goal framing) in group environments (exergame competitive vs. exergame noncompetitive) on eliciting attitudes and intentions toward physical activity among children and adolescents. We conducted a 7-week school-based intervention program involving 336 children and 259 adolescents in Singapore in which pre- and post-intervention responses were recorded. Our findings revealed the difference in responses between child and adolescent groups. Children who participated in noncompetitive exergames with extrinsically framed health messages and those who participated in competitive exergames with intrinsically framed health messages demonstrated more favorable attitudes toward physical activity. However, the same effects were absent in our adolescent group. These findings suggest that the integration of exergames into competitive and noncompetitive environments can serve as a gateway to traditional physical activity in schools when strategically combined with intrinsically and extrinsically framed messages. Practical and theoretical implications for schools and health educators are discussed.

Psychoeducation on the Risks of Early Marriage to Reduce Early Marriage Intentions in Adolescents

There are various reasons for someone to marry at an early age, one of which is the condition of someone who has a strong desire to marry at a young age. Early marriage intention is the tendency of a marriage that has a desire to marry at the age of teenagers or under the age of 20 years. The increasing intention of early marriage can be overcome, one of them is by providing psychoeducation. The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of providing psychoeducation on early marriage in reducing the intention of early marriage in adolescents. The research subjects were 55 teenagers who were taken purposively. This research is a quasi-experimental research. This type of research uses a pre-experimental design method with the type of pre-test and post-test one group design. The results showed that there was a significant difference in scores for the treatment without psychoeducation and with the treatment with psychoeducation t (-39.305; p = 0.000 <0.05). Thus, it can be concluded that psychoeducation can be used to reduce early marriage intentions.

Examining the relationship between personality and affect-related attributes and adolescents' intentions to try smoking using the Substance Use Risk Profile Scale

Assessments of adolescents' smoking intentions indicate that many are susceptible to smoking initiation because they do not have resolute intentions to abstain from trying smoking in the future. Although researchers have developed personality and affect-related risk factor profiles to understand risk for the initiation of substance use and abuse (e.g., alcohol), few have examined the extent to which these risk factors are related to the tobacco use intentions of adolescents who have yet to try tobacco smoking. The objective of this study was to examine the relationships between personality and affect-related risk factors measured by the Substance Use Risk Profile Scale (SURPS) and smoking intentions in a sample of adolescents who have not experimented with tobacco smoking. Data is based on responses from 1352 participants in the British Columbia Adolescent Substance Use Survey (56% female, 76% in Grade 8) who had never tried smoking tobacco. Of these 1352 participants, 29% (n=338) were classified as not having resolute intentions to not try smoking. Generalized estimating equations were used to examine the relationship between each SURPS dimension (Anxiety Sensitivity, Hopelessness, Impulsivity and Sensation Seeking) and the intention to try cigarettes in the future. Hopelessness (AOR 1.06, 95% CI [1.03, 1.10], p<.001), Impulsivity (AOR 1.07 [1.03, 1.11], p<.001) and Sensation Seeking (AOR 1.05 95% CI [1.02, 1.09], p<.01) had independent statistically significant associations with having an intention to try smoking. These findings may be used to inform a prevention-oriented framework to reduce susceptibility to tobacco smoking.

Psychosocial Correlates of Condom Use Intentions among Junior High School Students in the Bolgatanga Municipality of Ghana

ABSTRACTObjectives: We explored sociodemographics, sexual experience, and psychosocial factors influencing condom use intentions of adolescents in Northern Ghana. Methods: Based on social cognitive theories and previous empirical studies investigating condom use, a cross-sectional survey was conducted among 2,018 adolescents (M age = 15.8 years) in Bolgatanga, Ghana. Correlations and multinomial logistic regressions were performed. Results: Findings showed that attitudes toward condom availability, injunctive norms toward condom use, sex experience, perceived susceptibility towards STIs, and perceived behavioral control toward buying as well as using condoms differentiated between people with different levels of intentions to use condoms. Conclusions: Implications for intervention development are discussed.

PSIKOEDUKASI TENTANG RISIKO PERKAWINAN USIA MUDA UNTUK MENURUKAN INTENSI PERNIKAHAN DINI PADA REMAJA

Various reasons for a person doing early marriage, one of which is a condition where a person who has a strong desire to be married at a young age or who can be called with the intention. Intentions early marriage is the tendency of a marriage that has the desire to get married at the age of adolescence or under the age of 20 years. Increased intentions early marriage can be resolved, either by providing psychoeducation. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of psychoeducation early marriage in reducing early marriage intentions in adolescents in South Borneo. The research subjects were followed psychoeducation by category amounted to 55 people. This study is a quasi experimental study (quasi) also called quasi-experiment which is resembling (similar). This research uses a method of pre-experimental design with a kind of pre-test and post-test one group design. This method is given to one group without a comparison group. The results showed there were significant differences in scores on treatment without psychoeducation and with the treatment given psychoeducation t (-39,305; p = 0.000 Keywords: Psychoeducation, intentions early marriage, teenage

Maintaining or changing a drinking behavior? GOKA's short-term outcomes

Binge drinking of alcohol increases the risk of mental health problems, school exclusion, convictions, fatal and non-fatal accidents. A simple cluster randomized control trial design was used to evaluate a social marketing program, Game On: Know Alcohol (GOKA). Pre and post data were collected for seven programs (942 students, mean age: 14.6years) and five control schools (578 students, mean age: 14.4years). Significant improvements in alcohol knowledge and affective attitude toward binge drinking were observed for adolescents who participated in GOKA compared to the control group, with maintenance of desirable subjective norms, instrumental attitudes and intentions. Given considerable external competition from messages promoting the benefits of alcohol use, a one-off program that modifies incorrect knowledge and alters perceptions of binge drinking as a fun, recreational activity represents an important step. This research demonstrates social marketing's capacity to change drivers and maintain inhibitors of binge drinking intentions of adolescents.

Marijuana Use, Motives, and Change Intentions in Adolescents

Research typically focuses on motives to use or abstain from marijuana (MJ) in isolation; few studies have integrated both constructs in models of MJ use decision making. We expand the existing literature by integrating these motives in cognitive models of use and cessation in adolescents. We expected use motives to account for past use and intentions for future use, and for motives to abstain to dominate models explaining intention, desire, and self-efficacy for quitting. Adolescent MJ users (N = 162) reported their use and abstinence motives as well as their use and cessation behavior via online survey conducted in high schools. Past use was related to high conformity and low coping, while past cessation attempts were related to high enhancement motives. Intentions to use were related to low negative consequences and conformity, and high enhancement and expansion motives to use. Quitting intention was related to social motives to use, as was quitting self-efficacy. Self-efficacy was also related to high personal/peer beliefs motives to abstain. While past MJ use and intended future use were almost exclusively accounted for by use motives, both motives to use and abstain impacted self-reported cognitions associated with cessation in this sample of adolescent MJ users.

The effects of persuasive communication and planning on intentions to be more physically active and on physical activity behaviour among low-active adolescents

The purpose of the present study was to examine, using the theory of planned behaviour (TPB) combined with a self-regulatory behaviour change approach, whether persuasive communication based on adolescents’ salient beliefs (SBCondition) and planning (PCondition) could promote the intention and physical activity (PA) behaviour of low-active adolescents participating in less than 1 h/day of moderate-to-vigorous physical activity. The protocol tested the effectiveness of two strategies used separately (i.e. SBC or PC) or in combination (i.e. CC = NSBC-SBC-PC) compared to a group receiving a message based on non-salient beliefs (NSBCondition). The 116 low-active students from ten 10th and 11th grade classes were assigned, using a cluster randomisation, into one of the four conditions (i.e. NSBC, SBC, PC and CC). Baseline data were collected two weeks before the intervention. The post-test data collection occurred directly after the intervention, and the follow-up took place two weeks later. Results showed that (1) the NSBC was the least effective strategy, (2) the SBC had no significant effect on PA behaviour and the TPB variables, (3) the PC had no significant effect on PA behaviour but increased the intention and perceived behavioural control and (4) the effects of the PC and the CC were not significantly different.

Investigating the actual career decisions of the next generation: The impact of family business involvement

While the current family business literature has deeply informed our understanding of the career intentions of adolescents with a family background in business, a salient gap emerges regarding the ways in which family business involvement impacts the careers of the next generation. This article reports the empirical results of an interpretive qualitative study of the phenomenon of the careers of next-generation family members. The findings suggest that the family business involvement of the next generation not only influences but also alters the careers of the next generation. Helping is proposed as a key means of family business involvement for the next generation and a unique resource for family businesses. Through the activity of helping, the next generation explores the arena of the family business, which has significant consequences on career decision making.