Risk behavior and its relationship to self-efficiency expectations among adolescent

Abstract

The study aimed to investigate the relationship between risk behavior and self-efficacy expectations in adolescents, as well as to identify differences in risk behavior and self-efficiency expectations according to the gender variable, and to project the degree of self-efficacy expectations for adolescents in the degree of risk behavior. The study was conducted on a sample of 406 10th graders in some schools in rural Damascus (203 males and 203 females).

The study tools consisted of: Risk Behavior Scale (Ibrahim and Husseini 2013), Self-Efficiency Prediction Measure (Radwan, 1997).The results revealed a significant correlation between risk behavior and self-efficiency expectations, statistically significant differences in risk behavior according to the sex variable in favor of males and the absence of differences in self-efficiency expectations according to the sex variable, and that self-efficacy expectations are statistically indicative of risk behavior in adolescents.