The Relationships between Economic Scarcity, Concrete Mindset and Risk Behavior: A Study of Nicaraguan Adolescents

Aguilar, Pilar, Caballero, Amparo, Sevillano, Verónica, Fernández Sedano, Itziar, Muño, Dolores y Carrera, Pilar . (2020) The Relationships between Economic Scarcity, Concrete Mindset and Risk Behavior: A Study of Nicaraguan Adolescents. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

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Título The Relationships between Economic Scarcity, Concrete Mindset and Risk Behavior: A Study of Nicaraguan Adolescents
Autor(es) Aguilar, Pilar
Caballero, Amparo
Sevillano, Verónica
Fernández Sedano, Itziar
Muño, Dolores
Carrera, Pilar
Materia(s) Psicología
Abstract Background: Nicaragua is one of the poorest countries in Latin America, with an extremely low human development index (HDI). Fifty-two percent of the Nicaraguan population are children and adolescents under 18 years of age. Nicaraguan adolescents present several risk behaviors (such as teenage pregnancies, consumption of alcohol, tobacco, cannabis). Our study examines the links between risk behaviors, fatalism, real economic scarcity, and concrete construal level for adolescents with low and middle-low socioeconomic status in Nicaragua. Methods: Nicaraguan adolescents (N = 834) from schools located in especially vulnerable areas (low economic status) or in neighborhoods with middle-low social class completed several scales and questions to evaluate fatalism (SFC—social fatalism scale), construal level (BIF) and their past and future risk behaviors (smoking cigarettes, smoking cannabis, unsafe sex, and alcohol consumption). Results: We identified that the poorest individuals who maintained a concrete style of thinking had the highest rates of past and future risk behaviors. This vulnerable group also reported the highest levels of fatalism, i.e., negative attitudes and feelings of helplessness. Encouragingly, the adolescents who were able to maintain an abstract mindset reported healthier past and future habits and lower fatalism, even when they belonged to the lowest social status. In the middle-low economic group, the construal level was not as relevant to maintaining healthy habits, as adolescents reported similar rates of past and future risk behavior at both construal levels. Conclusions: All these results support the importance of considering construal level when studying vulnerable populations and designing risk prevention programs
Palabras clave poverty
construal level
fatalism
risk behaviors
Editor(es) MDPI
Fecha 2020-05-28
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Identificador bibliuned:DptoPSyO-FPSI-Articulos-Ifernandez-0001
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DOI - identifier https://doi.org/10.3390/IJERPH17113845
ISSN - identifier 1661-7827 eISSN 1660-4601
Nombre de la revista International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
Número de Volumen 17
Número de Issue 11
Publicado en la Revista International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
Idioma eng
Versión de la publicación publishedVersion
Tipo de recurso Article
Derechos de acceso y licencia http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
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Notas adicionales La versión publicada de este artículo, publicado por primera vez en International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (2020) 17 (11) 3845, está disponible en línea en el sitio web del editor: MDPI, https://doi.org/10.3390/IJERPH17113845
Notas adicionales The published version of this article, first published in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (2020) 17 (11) 3845, is available online at the publisher's website: MDPI, https://doi.org/10.3390/IJERPH17113845

 
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