Table 1.

Rural Adolescent Risk Behavior Codes and Descriptions

PURPOSE OF RISKY BEHAVIOR The motivators behind and reasons for enacting risky behaviors. RISKY BEHAVIOR TYPES Types of risky behavior that may include “risky outdoor activities,” a “substance possession,” and/or “substance use.” If no specific type of risk was mentioned, the utterance was coded into this broad category. Risky outdoor activities Activities conducted outdoors, wherein the adolescent does not take the proper precautions in ensuring his/her safety and the safety of those around him/her. Such activities may include hunting while unsupervised, dirt biking without a helmet, four-wheeling in the dark, etc. These risky outdoor activities may not become “risky” until substances or other actions are introduced to the scene. Substance use Including alcohol, tobacco, marijuana, or other substance use. RISKY BEHAVIOR—WHEN Utterance of the temporal sense, time of day, portion of the day (i.e. afternoon), day of the week, portion of the week (i.e. weekend) when a risky behavior occurred. RISKY BEHAVIOR—WHERE Utterance of where any risky behaviors occurred. Examples may include: outdoors; school property; a peer, friend, family member, or the adolescent’s home; party; etc. RISKY BEHAVIOR—WHO Utterance of who acted out the risky behavior, i.e. the interviewee himself/herself, the interviewee’s peer, the interviewee’s adolescent friend, a family member, etc. Category was broadened to provide a conceptual understanding of the types of risky behaviors which adolescents witnessed or enacted. IDENTIFCATION THROUGH RISK Utterance of seeing oneself as being risky and or attaching risk to one’s identity. LAY CONCEPTUALIZATIONS OF RISK Utterances relating to the adolescent’s view of what actions are risky and what exactly makes an activity risky or dangerous. PROTECTIVE FACTORS Factors that perhaps prevent or protect the adolescent from certain risky situations. CONCEPT MEMO Time- and date-stamped annotations related to furthering conceptual understanding of any topics, difficulties in coding a specific utterance, and arguments for coding an utterance in one way versus another. PROCESS MEMO Time- and date-stamped annotations related to the progress of the coding work, in general.