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Clusters of Contemporary Risk and Their Relationship to Mental Well-Being Among 15-Year-Old Adolescents Across 37 Countries
Journal of Adolescent Health
Vol. 66Issue 6SupplementS40–S49Published in issue: June, 2020
- Sophie D. Walsh
- Tal Sela
- Margaretha De Looze
- Wendy Craig
- Alina Cosma
- Yossi Harel-Fisch
- and others
Cited in Scopus: 25
Adolescents' mental well-being has become a growing public health concern. Adolescents' daily lives and their engagement in risks have changed dramatically in the course of the 21st century, leading to a need to update traditional models of risk to include new exposures and behaviors. To date, studies have examined the relationship between (mainly traditional) risk behaviors and adolescent mental well-being or looked at risk factors that jeopardize mental well-being such as lack of social support but have not combined them together to highlight the most significant risks for adolescent mental well-being today.