Peer/Individual Risk Factors

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  1. Finish this sentence: “Peer and individual risk factors are …”

Answer: b

Why?

Individual factors include neurological and biological make up and personality traits. Peer factors include friends with favorable attitudes toward or engaged in problem behaviors like smoking, underage drinking, or violence.

  1. About 40-50% of kids who are aggressive in the first grade will become delinquents and drug users as teenagers unless helped early with effective preventive interventions.

Answer: a – True

  1. Other peer and individual risk factors include (check all that apply)

Answer: a, c, e, f

  1. Because delinquent friends are the strongest correlate of delinquent behavior, it’s best to wait to begin delinquency prevention efforts until middle school when youths begin to develop these friendships.

Answer: b – False

Why?

Reducing risk factors, earlier in development, like family management problems and academic failure, decreases the likelihood that young people will choose delinquent friends during middle school.

  1. Constitutional risk factors are violations of individual’s legal rights that lead them to commit crimes.

Answer: b – False
Why? Constitutional factors are neurological, biological and personality characteristics of individuals themselves.

  1. The earlier in adolescence that teens begin to drink, the greater the risk that they will develop alcohol disorders like alcohol abuse and alcohol dependence.

Answer: a – True