| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立臺灣大學 === 衛生政策與管理研究所 === 87 === The purpose of this study, which was achieved through secondary data analyzing, was to examine the distribution of adolescents'' health risk behaviors and to further evaluate the relationship between their religion and these health risk behaviors.
Stratified cluster sampling was used to select 1477 1st to 3rd grade junior high school students in Taipei City to be the samples of this study. The variables of this study were deviant behavior, risk-taking behavior, substance abuse, sex-related behavior, suicidal ideation, and religion.
The results were:
(1) The three most prevalent behaviors were lying (90.2%), swearing (83.6%), and chasing up ad down stairs (73.7%). (2) The prevalence of behaviors that may bring negative consequences or break the laws, such as joining gang (5.0%), taking drug (0.8%), and having sex (4.9%), was between low and moderate. (3) About the incidence rate of health risk behaviors, the third grade were higher than the first grade; boys were higher than girls; weak internal locus controllers were higher than strong ones; students with bad family or peer relationships were higher than students with good relationships. (4) Students'' religion was highly correlated with their parents''. (5) Buddhists disapproved health risk behavior more than people with no religion; substances abuse behavior was less common among Christian than among no religious group. (6) Religiosity was positively correlated with deviant behavior and suicidal ideation, and Buddhists had more suicidal ideation than people without religious belief.
The results of this study suggested that to prevent students from engaging in health risk behaviors, schools provide intervention project. On one hand, to lead students to form a correct attitude toward health risk behaviors and cultivate good peer relationships; on the other hand, to help parents and their children building better relationships and choosing a suitable religion.
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