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

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dc.contributor.authorAguilar, Pilar
dc.contributor.authorCaballero, Amparo
dc.contributor.authorSevillano, Verónica
dc.contributor.authorMuño, Dolores
dc.contributor.authorCarrera, Pilar
dc.contributor.authorFernández Sedano, Iciar
dc.date.accessioned2024-05-20T11:57:08Z
dc.date.available2024-05-20T11:57:08Z
dc.date.issued2020-05-28
dc.description.abstractBackground: 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 programsen
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dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.3390/IJERPH17113845
dc.identifier.issn1661-7827 eISSN 1660-4601
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14468/12749
dc.journal.issue11
dc.journal.titleInternational Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
dc.journal.volume17
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherMDPI
dc.relation.centerFacultad de Psicología
dc.relation.departmentPsicología Social y de las Organizaciones
dc.rightsAtribución 4.0 Internacional
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
dc.subject.keywordspoverty
dc.subject.keywordsconstrual level
dc.subject.keywordsfatalism
dc.subject.keywordsrisk behaviors
dc.titleThe Relationships between Economic Scarcity, Concrete Mindset and Risk Behavior: A Study of Nicaraguan Adolescentses
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