ورزش و خطرپذیری در برابر سویمصرف (سیگار، مواد مخدر و الکل) در دانش‌آموزان دبیرستانی شهر تهران

Substance abuse, violation and sexual behavior are the main reasons of fatalityin adolescents and the youth. most risky behaviors including cigarettes, alcohol,drugs and unsafe sexual contacts occur under the age of 18. traditionally, sport isregarded as a means to encourage and develop healthy behaviors and a factor toprotect and prevent risky behaviors. the present study studied 406 studentsincluding 271 male and 135 female students to compare the vulnerability of maleand female athlete and non-athlete adolescents to risky behaviors such as smoking,drugs and alcohol. iranian adolescence risk-taking scale (iars) was used tomeasure the risk taking (zadeh mohammadi & ahmadabadi, 2008). thoseadolescents who have been a member of athletic teams had higher mean insubscale ‘drinking alcohol’. those athletes who participated in provincialcompetitions and higher levels, those who engaged more than three sessions aweek in sport teams and those athletes who attended sport camps had a highermean. also, there was no significant difference between individual and groupsports. when explaining the higher levels of risk-taking in those who weremembers of athletic teams and clubs , factors such as duality, and the difficulty inplaying the role of a student and an athlete simultaneously, camp condition, lack ofsufficient control over members’ behaviors except when they are playing, peers’collective norms, normative pressure to conform with various expectations of theteam, lack of scientific attitude towards school athletic organizations in iran, andconcurrent influence of personality features like sensation and novelty sought intendencies toward sport and risky behaviors can be taken into account.