Background: The aim of this study was to develop a causal model of social, academic, and emotional risk-taking based on parenting styles, sensation-seeking, stress coping styles with mediation of academic skills in students with high-risk behaviors.
Methods: This research was descriptive-correlational and especially, structural equation modeling (SEM). The statistical population of the study was all male and female high school students in the city of Karaj, Iran, in the academic year 2019-2020, from which 300 people were selected by multi-stage random sampling method. To collect data, the Iranian Adolescents Risk-Taking Scale of Zadeh Mohammadi et al. (2011), Social, Academic, and Emotional Behavior Risk Screener (SAEBRS) of Kilgus et al. (2014), Baumrind Parenting Styles Questionnaire (PSQ) (1991), Andler and Parker Coping Inventory for Stressful Situations (CISS) (1990), Zuckerman et al. Sensation Seeking Scale (SSS), and Academic Skills Questionnaire of Shabani et al. were used. Data were analyzed by structural equation analysis via SPSS and AMOS software.
Findings: The proposed model had a good fit. Parenting styles, sensation-seeking, and stress coping strategies were directly related to social, academic, and emotional risk-taking. Parenting styles, sensation-seeking, and stress coping strategies were indirectly related to social, academic, and emotional risk-taking through the variable of academic skills.
Conclusion: Findings consistent with the conceptual model suggest that parenting styles, sensation-seeking, and stress coping strategies are indirectly related to risky behaviors through academic skills. Moreover, parenting styles, sensation-seeking, and stress coping strategies are indirectly related to risk-taking through the variable of academic skills. These results have theoretical and practical applications in designing prevention programs about students' risk-taking and should be considered.
Type of Study:
Research |
Subject:
health Psychology Received: 2021/02/18 | Accepted: 2021/07/27 | Published: 2021/10/2