Risky health-related behaviours among school-aged adolescents: a rational 'consumer' choice?

摘要: Within the contemporary culture of consumption, school-aged adolescents, though neither waged nor salaried producers, are nevertheless treated by media and advertisers as if they active consumers who engaged in project self. For those adolescents lack financial resources to 'buy into' this culture, anxiety may ensue. In order ease anxiety, acquire social status, some - not all make 'rational' 'consumer' choice engage risky health-related behaviour. situ ethnographic research is needed complement inform existing survey-based evidence on relationship between economic status behaviour among deal with pressures consumerism. Language: en