Problem Behavior Theory and Adolescent Health

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxiii

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2. Introduction to the Volume

   • Richard Jessor

   Pages 1-11

3. Health-Related Problem Behaviors: Drinking and Problem Drinking

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 13-13

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   2. Predicting the Initiation of Alcohol Use

      • Richard Jessor, Mary I. Collins, Shirley L. Jessor

      Pages 15-32

   3. Alcohol Use and Adolescent Development

      • Richard Jessor, Shirley L. Jessor

      Pages 33-54

   4. Adolescent and Young Adult Problem Drinking

      • John E. Donovan, Richard Jessor, Lee Jessor

      Pages 55-79

   5. Explaining Adolescent Problem Drinking

      • Richard Jessor

      Pages 81-104

   6. Problem Drinking and Psychosocial Development in Adolescence

      • Richard Jessor

      Pages 105-121

   7. Problem Drinking in College

      • Richard Jessor, Frances M. Costa, Patrick M. Krueger, Mark S. Turbin

      Pages 123-138

4. Health-Related Problem Behaviors: Marijuana Use

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 139-139

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   2. Marijuana Use in High School and College

      • Richard Jessor, Shirley L. Jessor, John Finney

      Pages 141-160

   3. Understanding the Initiation of Marijuana Use

      • Richard Jessor

      Pages 161-175

   4. Problem Behavior Theory and the Use of Marijuana

      • Richard Jessor, Shirley L. Jessor

      Pages 177-209

   5. Psychosocial Research on Marijuana Use: An Early Review

      • Richard Jessor

      Pages 211-237

   6. Understanding Marijuana Use in a National Sample of Adolescents

      • Richard Jessor, James A. Chase, John E. Donovan

      Pages 239-257

   7. Accounting for Marijuana Use in Adolescence and Young Adulthood

      • Richard Jessor, John E. Donovan, Frances M. Costa

      Pages 259-275

5. Health-Related Problem Behaviors: Early Sexual Intercourse Experience

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 277-277

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   2. The Transition to Sexual Intercourse Experience

      • Shirley L. Jessor, Richard Jessor

      Pages 279-296

   3. Predicting First Sexual Intercourse Experience

      • Richard Jessor, Frances M. Costa, Lee Jessor, John E. Donovan

      Pages 297-323

   4. Understanding Early Initiation of Sexual Intercourse in Adolescence

      • Frances M. Costa, Richard Jessor, John E. Donovan, J. Dennis Fortenberry

      Pages 325-349

This second volume of Richard Jessor’s influential works applies his groundbreaking theory to illuminating the psychosocial determinants of adolescent health. Focusing on a range of both health-compromising and health-enhancing behaviors, including problem drinking, marijuana use, risky driving, and early sexual experience as well as regular exercise and healthy diet, these writings advance understanding of the role of health behavior in adolescence and adolescent development. Chapters illustrate the relevance of the theory and of its interdisciplinary approach for research on behavioral health in adolescence and for the design of prevention/intervention programs to promote healthy development.  In addition, the book’s comparative studies of U.S. and Chinese youth reveal the generality of the theory across societal and national differences.


Topics featured in this book include:

• Alcohol use and problem drinking in adolescent health and development.
  
• Psychosocial research on marijuana use.
  
• Understanding early initiation of sexual intercourse in adolescence.
  
• Smoking behavior in adolescence and young adulthood. 
  
• Developmental change in risky driving.
  
• Healthy eating and regular exercise in adolescent health and development

Problem Behavior Theory and Adolescent Health is a must-have resource for researchers, professors, clinicians, and related professionals as well as graduate students in developmental and health psychology, sociology, criminology, criminal justice, public health, and related disciplines.
 

• Adolescence and problem drinking
• Contraceptive use and adolescence
• Drug abuse and adolescent development
• Early initiation of sexual intercourse
• Healthy eating and regular exercise adolescents in China
• Healthy eating and regular exercise adolescents in the U.S.
• Marijuana use and problem drinking during adolescence
• Marijuana use during high school and college
• Personality and adolescent health behaviors
• Problem Behavior Theory and cigarette smoking
• Problem Behavior Theory and psychosocial development
• Problem Behavior Theory and sexual development
• Problem Behavior Theory, drinking, and risky driving
• Problem drinking among college students
• Problem drinking during emerging adulthood
• Protective factors, alcohol, and adolescent development
• Protective factors, marijuana, and adolescent development
• Risk factors, alcohol, and adolescent development
• Risk factors, marijuana, and adolescent development
• Smoking and college students

“This book takes a fairly exhaustive look at adolescent health through Jessor’s theory and discusses the classic risky behaviors that many young people engage in. It would be a great addition to the libraries of clinicians and researchers who are working with youth.” (Gary B. Kaniuk, Doody's Book Reviews, September, 2017)

• Institute of Behavioral Science, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, USA

  Richard Jessor

Richard Jessor, PhD, ScD, is Distinguished Professor of Behavioral Science and Professor of Psychology, Emeritus at the University of Colorado Boulder where he has spent his entire academic career. One of the founders of the university’s Institute of Behavioral Science in 1959, he served as its Director from 1980 to 2001. He was Founding Director of the Institute’s Research Program on Problem Behavior and, later, its Research Program on Health and Society. From 1987 to 1997, he also directed the Mac Arthur Foundation’s Research Network on Successful Adolescent Development among Youth in High Risk Settings. He is the author or editor of ten books and has published over 135 articles and book chapters. In 2003, he was designated a “Highly Cited Researcher” in the Social Science: General category by the Institute for Scientific Information. 


Educated at the College of the City of New York and Yale University, where he received his B.A. degree in Psychology in 1946, Jessor received an M.A. from Columbia University in 1947 and a PhD in Clinical Psychology in 1951 from Ohio State University, where he was a student of Julian B. Rotter. He has been a consultant to various federal agencies and private foundations as well as the World Health Organization, Health and Welfare Canada, and UNICEF. He has served on several National Research Council panels and on the Carnegie Council on Adolescent Development. He was an invited Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences in 1995-96, and he received the Outstanding Achievement in Adolescent Medicine Award in 2005 from the Society for Adolescent Medicine. Jessor is, after 65 years, the longest-serving active faculty member at the University of Colorado. In May 2015, he was awarded the degree of Doctor of Science, honoris causa, by the Regents of the University of Colorado.

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