Colin Wyld
Biographic Data
| ID | 4239618 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Colin Wyld |
| GIVEN NAMES | Colin |
| FAMILY NAME | Wyld |
| SIGNATURE | WYLD C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Tasmania |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Social support as a factor inhibiting teenage risk-taking: Views of students, parents and professionals
A large-scale study conducted in Tasmania, Australia, of teenage risk-taking across 26 potentially harmful risk activities has examined a range of factors that encourage or inhibit risk-taking. Among these factors, the degree of social and professional support the teenage students say they would access for personal, study or health problems has been examined and correlated with the respondents’ risk-taking profiles. Findings reveal that the wider…
Gender Differences in Adolescent Risk Taking: Are They Diminishing
Research investigating patterns of intergenerational risk taking has produced evidence of increased risk taking of female adolescents compared with their mother's generation and a reduction in the traditional gap between levels of teenage male and female risk taking. The research is part of a larger, multistage project on factors affecting adolescent risk taking conducted between 1999 and 2003 in Tasmania, Australia, using quantitative and qualit…
Pre-service professionals' constructs of adolescent risk-taking and approaches to risk management
The research explored constructs of potentially harmful adolescent risk-taking of 220 university students in their final year of degree courses in education, law, medicine, nursing, psychology and social work, who anticipated they would be dealing with young people professionally. Their personal risk hierarchies, and their own experience of risk-taking when they were teenagers, were investigated as potential influences upon the normative orientat…
Social support as a factor inhibiting teenage risk-taking: Views of students, parents and professionals
A large-scale study conducted in Tasmania, Australia, of teenage risk-taking across 26 potentially harmful risk activities has examined a range of factors that encourage or inhibit risk-taking. Among these factors, the degree of social and professional support the teenage students say they would access for personal, study or health problems has been examined and correlated with the respondents’ risk-taking profiles. Findings reveal that the wider…
Gender Differences in Adolescent Risk Taking: Are They Diminishing
Research investigating patterns of intergenerational risk taking has produced evidence of increased risk taking of female adolescents compared with their mother's generation and a reduction in the traditional gap between levels of teenage male and female risk taking. The research is part of a larger, multistage project on factors affecting adolescent risk taking conducted between 1999 and 2003 in Tasmania, Australia, using quantitative and qualit…
Pre-service professionals' constructs of adolescent risk-taking and approaches to risk management
The research explored constructs of potentially harmful adolescent risk-taking of 220 university students in their final year of degree courses in education, law, medicine, nursing, psychology and social work, who anticipated they would be dealing with young people professionally. Their personal risk hierarchies, and their own experience of risk-taking when they were teenagers, were investigated as potential influences upon the normative orientat…
Pre-service professionals' constructs of adolescent risk-taking and approaches to risk management
The research explored constructs of potentially harmful adolescent risk-taking of 220 university students in their final year of degree courses in education, law, medicine, nursing, psychology and social work, who anticipated they would be dealing with young people professionally. Their personal risk hierarchies, and their own experience of risk-taking when they were teenagers, were investigated as potential influences upon the normative orientat…
Social support as a factor inhibiting teenage risk-taking: Views of students, parents and professionals
A large-scale study conducted in Tasmania, Australia, of teenage risk-taking across 26 potentially harmful risk activities has examined a range of factors that encourage or inhibit risk-taking. Among these factors, the degree of social and professional support the teenage students say they would access for personal, study or health problems has been examined and correlated with the respondents’ risk-taking profiles. Findings reveal that the wider…
Gender Differences in Adolescent Risk Taking: Are They Diminishing
Research investigating patterns of intergenerational risk taking has produced evidence of increased risk taking of female adolescents compared with their mother's generation and a reduction in the traditional gap between levels of teenage male and female risk taking. The research is part of a larger, multistage project on factors affecting adolescent risk taking conducted between 1999 and 2003 in Tasmania, Australia, using quantitative and qualit…
Psychology (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works) · Youth Development and Social Support (3 works) · Developmental psychology (2 works) · Medicine (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Resilience and Mental Health (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Youth Education and Societal Dynamics (2 works) · Alcohol (1 works)