Leisure time preferences and health-risk behavior of teenagers in the post-communist Central European countries

Abstrakt

In Central and Eastern Europe, alcohol consumption, smoking, and substance use have become a substantial problem mainly among young people as well as changes of their leisure time occupations. The paper uses the binary logistic regression to measure the association between a certain type of leisure occupations and health-risk behaviors to show which activities are the most prone to health-risk behaviors.

Klíčová slova

• risk behavior
• alcohol consumption
• smoking
• drug use
• teenagers
• Central and Eastern Europe