Risk Factors for Adolescent Substance Use and Addictive Behaviors
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Public Health Statistics and Risk Assessment".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 October 2020) | Viewed by 64631
Special Issue Editors
Interests: adolescent health and personality factors; health promotion interventions; risk factors for cardiovascular disease; cognitive decline; global health
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Adolescence is a time when maturational changes take place and adolescents begin to make their own decisions and to develop behavioral patterns that differ from childhood. There is a special vulnerability to risk-taking behaviors including substance use and addictive behaviors.
It has been described that personal, genetic, and environmental factors could contribute to these risk behaviors. Personality and genetic factors could predispose one to certain behavioral addictions. Factors related to the environment, family, school, and peers influence adolescent choices and therefore their future physical and mental health.
Although tobacco and alcohol consumption are declining worldwide, in many countries cannabis consumption seems to have been stable for the last 15 years. Furthermore, new behavioral addictions, such as internet gambling or smartphone addiction, which have come with new technology irruption in the last decades, have become a new challenge for public health.
While a broad literature exists on risk factors for some individual addictions, less is known about some topics such as the interaction between addiction, substance use, and multiple risk-behaviors in adolescence. Neither adequately describes the influence of the context where the addiction takes place (ludic, social, etc.) or the pattern related to simultaneous or sequential use of different substances during adolescence and their relationship with the dynamic friendship networks.
A wide range of topics will be included in this Issue, related to risk and protective factors for addictive behaviors and substance use during adolescence, including risk perception, neurobiological risk factors, socioeconomic and cultural factors for smartphone addiction, internet addiction, internet gaming addiction, substance abuse (tobacco, alcohol cannabis), etc.
This Special Issue in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health is dedicated to recent findings on “Risk Factors for Adolescent Substance Use and Addictive Behaviors” to make substantial contributions to knowledge in understanding why some adolescents engage in these high-risk health behaviors.
Dr. Aina M. Yañez
Dr. Alfonso Leiva Rus
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- adolescent health
- adolescent behavior
- addictive behavior
- substance use disorder
- internet addiction
- internet gaming disorders
- family environment
- personality factors
- environmental factors
- neurobiological factors
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