Lifelong Learn. 2015, 5, 98-108

https://doi.org/10.11118/lifele2015050298

Sense of Coherence and Adherence to Healthy Lifestyle Amongst Adolescents

Stanislav Pelcák, Stanislava Hoferková, Václav Bělík

Univerzita Hradec Králové, Pedagogická fakulta, Katedra sociální patologie a sociologie, Rokitanského 62, 500 03 Hradec Králové, Czech Republic

Received March 30, 2015
Accepted June 18, 2015

The article describes the risk behaviour syndrome in adolescence. WHO established adolescents as individual at-risk population group, we speak about so-called new morbidity of adolescents which is currently the main cause of mortality in this development period. Seriousness of risk behaviour manifestation is within the multi-causal aethiopathogenesis also influenced by salutoprotective factors of lifestyle. High level of sense of coherence prove individual's progress towards active health.