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Health Education Research, Vol. 7, No. 2, 269-276, 1992
© 1992 Oxford University Press

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Risk-seeking and safety-seeking behaviours: a study of health-related behaviours among Norwegian school children

F. Thuen, K.I. Klepp and B. Wold

Research Center for Health Promotion, University of Bergen Øysteinsgate 1, 5007 Bergen, Norway

The purpose of this study was to investigate risk-seeking and safety-seeking behaviours among schoolchildren in Norway. Behaviours that give rise to a subjective experience of risk were labelled risk seeking, and use of various kinds of safety equipment was labelled safety seeking. The results yielded moderate to weak, but significant, inter-relationships between the various kinds of safety equipment. Factor analysis indicated that safety-seeking behaviours and risk-seeking behaviours form two separate, although negatively correlated, dimensions among the respondents. These dimensions seem to be part of more general health-related behaviour patterns, previously labelled health-compromising and health-enhancing lifestyles. Our findings indicate that risk seeking and safety seeking can be useful terms in the planning and development of health education programmes aimed at reducing accidents among young people.


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