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Leisure, risk awareness and personality factors among female students

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Abstract

Purpose

The physical and psychological well-being of students is a subject of concern and public health. This study addresses the question of leisure among female students, their risk assessment concerning these leisure activities and the possible relations with the Multidimensional Health Locus of Control (MHLC).

Methods

A sample of 61 female students completed two questionnaires about their leisure activities and the risk assessment and the Multidimensional Health Locus of Control (MHLC) Scale. Several statistical methods were used.

Results

Female students do not consider their leisure activities risky. Female students are more internal than external. The power given to the others, in particular to the family, can play a positive role in the awareness of risks, and thus it can favor good health.

Conclusion

If most of the hypotheses are confirmed, certain invalidations give rise to new reflections concerning the direction that preventive action should take for the physical and psychological well-being of female students.

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Notes

  1. “Botellón”: Massive meetings in public places where young people get together to binge until late at night. They also share other substances such as different types of drugs.

  2. https://www.r-project.org/

  3. http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/releases/2015/ear-care/en/

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Acknowledgements

We would like to thank Soledad Andrés for certain contributions to the first part concerning the practices of young Spaniards.

We would like to thank the reviewers for their remarks, which helped to improve the quality of the paper.

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  1. Laboratoire de Psychologie des Pays de la Loire (LPPL) UPRES EA 4638, Maison de la recherche Germain Tillion, University of Angers, 5 bis boulevard Lavoisier, 49045, Angers cedex 01, France

    Gaymard Sandrine

  2. Laboratoire Angevin de Recherche en Ingénierie de Systèmes (LARIS), EA 7315, Institut des Sciences et Techniques de l’Ingénieur d’Angers (ISTIA), University of Angers, 62 avenue Notre Dame du Lac, 49000, Angers, France

    Tiplica Teodor

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Table 1

Table 1 Socio-demographic variables of the study population
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Table 2

Table 2 Each item of the MHLC in the different subscalesD
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Table 3

Table 3 Frequency table of the leisure categorical variables used in this study
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Sandrine, G., Teodor, T. Leisure, risk awareness and personality factors among female students. J Public Health 24, 521–534 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10389-016-0752-5

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