https://padlet.com/erin_myers1/vw6s3vtdcizx Made with a taste for adventure en-us 2019-05-08 13:20:31 UTC 2025-12-29 16:35:01 UTC hello@padlet.com erin_myers1 https://padlet.com/erin_myers1/vw6s3vtdcizx/wish/358035196 Technology, school, and media can play a huge role in your personal health.  School is a very big influencer as the book says “School is typically the largest and most important institution 
with which young people are involved, and it is a primary con-
text for their development. School influences adolescent risk 
behaviors in many aspects. Schools have broad structural 
characteristics that vary (such as the socioeconomic status of 
the population they serve, their size and the ratio of teachers 
to students, school and classroom size, and student and 
teacher mobility).“ ( pg 6 section 4.2)
It can affect your personality as well as your risk factors. “ another big factor is technology just because it is so ingrained in our daily lives. The book says “Among the environmental influences that affect teenagers’ de-
velopment, perhaps the most difficult to study is the wide, 
fast-evolving array of media and technologies that are part of 
their lives. Any list of the sorts of devices and programming to 
which young people may have access is likely to be at least 
somewhat outdated within months, but researchers have be-
gun actively exploring both the effects of media on adolescent 
behavior and ways of structuring both their interactions with 
it and interventions designed to address media-related prob-
 lems.” The last big influencer is media which is very intertwined with technology. People tend to use their likes and dislikes to categorize themselves on social media and this can lead to very cliquey behavior “A  third 
theoretical model posits that adolescents use media as part of 
their individuation process. They use their preferences for pro-
gramming or music to convey messages about their social 
identity, in the same way that their choices of clothing and 
peer groups do” (pg 8 section 4.2)

There was a stretch of time during volleyball season where I was forced to make a bad health decision because of school. I was on the girls volleyball team so we had to stay at school until 5:00 meaning I was getting home at 5:30 having done no homework. Then by the time I was done with my homework I had no time to eat dinner. It was a very bad cycle that continued until seasons end. ]]> 2019-05-08 13:34:52 UTC https://padlet.com/erin_myers1/vw6s3vtdcizx/wish/358035196