Health compromising behaviors among Chinese adolescents: Role of physical abuse, school experience, and social support

This study examined the influence of immediate social environment on health compromising behaviors (HCB) among 6564 high school students in China. Results showed that physical abuse by parents was a major risk factor that accounted for high rates of HCB. Perceived positive school experience and soci...

Full description

Saved in:

Bibliographic Details
Published in:	Journal of health psychology Vol. 16; no. 3; pp. 457 - 466
Main Authors:	So-kum Tang, Catherine, Wong, William C.W., Leung, Phil M.S., Chen, Wei-qin, Lee, Albert, Ling, Davina C.
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	London, England SAGE Publications 01-04-2011 Sage Publications
Subjects:	Adolescence Adolescent Adolescents Behavioural psychology Biological and medical sciences Child Abuse China Chinese Female Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology Health Health Behavior Health compromising behaviour Health Surveys High schools Humans Illness and personality Male Parent-child relations Parents Personal Satisfaction Personality, behavior and health Protective factors Psychology and medicine Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry Psychology. Psychophysiology Risk-Taking Schooling Schools Selfinjury Social Support Students - psychology Suicide Asia China school experience and health behaviors Physical abuse and health behaviors health compromising behaviors in China Human Social environment Violence Mental health Protective factor Victimology School environment Child abuse Adolescent Risk factor Health behavior Public health Social support
Online Access:	Get full text
Tags:	Add Tag No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!

Description
Summary:	This study examined the influence of immediate social environment on health compromising behaviors (HCB) among 6564 high school students in China. Results showed that physical abuse by parents was a major risk factor that accounted for high rates of HCB. Perceived positive school experience and social support were protective factors associated with low rates of HCB. These two protective factors also buffered the adverse influence of abuse on the practice of individual HCB. In particular, parental abuse was associated with sexual experimentation, non-fatal self-harm, and suicide behaviors only at low levels of protective factors.
Bibliography:	ObjectType-Article-1 SourceType-Scholarly Journals-1 ObjectType-Feature-2 content type line 23 ObjectType-Article-2 ObjectType-Feature-1
ISSN:	1359-1053 1461-7277
DOI:	10.1177/1359105310384297