SCHOOL RELATIONS AND BEHAVIOR WHICH MAY BE DANGEROUS FOR ADOLESCENTS AGED 15-17 YEARS
Objective - to study self-evaluation of school relations and dangerous behavior for health in adolescents aged 15-17 years. Material and methods . 340 adolescents aged 15-17 years from Ivanovo region were questioned by standard questionnaire developed by international research network HBSC “Schoolchildren behavior concerning health”. The results were comparable with research data of the Russian Federation. Results and discussion . One third of the adolescents from Ivanovo region (the same parameters in the Russian Federation) have no problems in school environment. At the same time one third of them considered school environment as hostile one. They more frequently than their schoolmates of the same age have reduced mood (50,8 and 14 %), more rarely consider their life as favorable (72,4 and 83,5 %), and their schoolmates as kind and responsible persons (54,8 and 63 %), more rarely they like to be at school (7,2 and 20,5 %). Such behavior which may be dangerous for health (smoking, alcohol intake) is not widely spread and is comparable with the same data in the Russian Federation as a whole. But schoolchildren from Ivanovo region rarely answered that they smoke (30,4 and 50 %), take alcohol (6,5 and 11 %) than the adolescents of the same age in the Russian Federation as a whole. Conclusions . The revealed peculiarities stipulated the necessity to improve psychological and pedagogical treatment of senior pupils, individual work with the adolescents and wide educational activity in the field of primary prophylaxis of bad habits.