TERRA INCOGNITA? ADOLESCENTSKA SPOLNOST I RIZIČNO PONAŠANJE
TERRA INCOGNITA? ADOLESCENT SEXUALITY AND RISK-TAKING BEHAVIOR

Summary/Abstract: The paper examines theoretical concepts of adolescent sexual risk-taking and related methodological questions. In the first part, three models of risk-taking behavior are discussed: epidemological or the risk group model, the personality trait (risk seeking actor) model, and the model of risk factors. Discussing their shortcomings, the author proposes a reconceptualization which includes rationality, commonness and sequential (path-dependent) organization of the sexual risk-taking in adolescence. In the second part of the paper the author presents a preliminary testing of these extensions using data from a pilot study carried out in 1998 on 417 high-school students. The concluding part offers a brief discussion of the much needed preventive and educational programs in Croatia.

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