The Relationship Between Vocational College Students' Social Networks And Risk Behaviors

Risk behaviors refer to the actions that are committed by an individual and that can be of direct or potential harm to the development of his own mental and physical health and to others and the society.In the recent several decades, juvenile risk behaviors have become the hotspot in the fields like epidemiology,social psychology and developmental psychology.It is indicated in domestic and abroad investigations and researches that juvenile risk behaviors are spreading widely throughout the whole world.In the western countries,(especially in America and the UK and Holland, etc.) studies on juvenile risk behaviors were commenced and great progresses have been made since 1970's,and nowadays some topics on the arising characteristics of juvenile risk behaviors, their influencing factors as well as their countermeasures have achieved plentiful research findings.While compared with those in western countries,researches done by some psychologists and medical staffs of China lag behind and lack of systematic features and all-sidedness,which is not beneficial to understanding the features and mechanism of the arising and development of Chinese juvenile risk behaviors , and putting forward the penetratingly defending and intervening countermeasures to them.This paper,based on the investigations of the risk behaviors of vocational college students,analyses the current situation of Chinese juvenile risk behaviors,the relationship between juvenile risk behaviors and relation nets and the approaches of realizing and preventing risk behaviors.The main topics in this paper include the current situation of risk behaviors,the relationship between various risk behaviors,and the relationship between social networks and risk behaviors of vocational college students.By using the revised Juvenile Risk Behavior Questionnaire,Social Network Questionnaire,Accompaniers'Evaluations on Individual Misconducts Questionnaire,this paper makes a stochastic and layered sampling research of the current situation of these risk behaviors such as unintentional injuries,violent injuries,suicide and running away from home,smoking,drinking and other drug use,unsafe sexual behaviors,inappropriate weight-losing,unhealthy diet,lack of physical activity and internet addiction as well as the relationship between these behaviors and social networks and personality particularity.Hence it comes to a conclusion as follows:1. the universalism of risk behaviors of vocational college students Some risk behaviors are of rather high occurrence among vocational college students, which can be classified into two kinds:behaviors like violation of traffic rules (crossing the street anywhere instead of through the zebra crossing,jumping the red light and retrograding when riding a bicycle,driving without fastening safety belt,etc.),drinking and smoking even getting drunk in the past and in recent days, inappropriate diet and lacking of physical activities are of higher occurrence than those like property losses,planning to run away from home,recent smoking, heavy smoking,weight-losing by exercises and keeping on a diet,net addictions etc.Some of these risk behaviors arise on vocational college students more than high school students while some others,arise vice versa,which are much less when compared with the occurrence in the foreign countries.2. the differences between cities and countries, genders and the parental civilization in terms of risk behaviors of vocational college studentsIt is indicated according to the classification of their home address that some risk behaviors are of different occurrences between students from cities and those from countries.Girls'risks behaviors occur more obviously than boys in weight-losing and lack of physical activities while boys commit more in unintentional injury,violent injuries,smoking,drinking and other drug using,sexual behavior,unhealthy diet and net addiction,etc.than girls.What's more,there exist some differences between the students when their parents are of different educational background.These differences are not as universal as the first two kinds mentioned above.3. the pertinence of various risk behaviors among vocational college studentsVarious risk behaviors among vocational college students are of high pertinence,which shows that they are also of assembling characteristic,i.e.once a student commits one kind of risk behavior,it will be of greater chances that he will do another one in his later life.4. the relationship between vocational college students'social networks and risk behaviorsVocational college students'social networks and risk behavious are linked closely. The accompany of parents,intermediary assistance,affection support and intimacy are of negative correlation with unintentional injuries,violent injuries,running away and suicide,smoking, drinking,sexual behaviors,weight-losing,unhealthy diet and net addiction.The disputes and conflicts with parents are of strikingly positive correlation with most risk behaviors like unintentional injuries,violent injuries, running away and suicide,smoking, drinking,sexual behaviors,weight-losing,unhealthy diet and net addition.The features of group accompaniers are of strikingly positive correlation with unintentional injuries,violent injuries,running away and suicide,smoking, drinking,sexual behaviors,weight-losing,lacking of exercises,unhealthy diet and net addition except for losing weight.The researches show that the relevance of risk behaviors will differ if vocational college students are of different relationships with their own parents, the features of group accompaniers, and the prediction of risk behaviors among vocational college students. The features of accompaniers are of high pretesting capability of unintentional injuries,violent injuries,smoking,drinking and drug-abusing,running away and suicide,sexual behaviors,weight-lising,unhealthy diet and net addition but for lacking of physical activities. Individual awareness of parents'support, such as parents'accompany, intermediary assistance, affection support and intimacy are of negative correlation with some risk behaviors, while diputes and confliction with parents are of positive correlation with some risk behavious.