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Abstract
From the influence of peers in the acquisition of behaviors that could endanger or protect health, we aimed to verify the existence of differences in levels of sport practice, consumption of tobacco and alcohol, and life satisfaction among students of the third Cycle of Basic Education attending two different types of schools in Portuguese Mainland: Basic Schools of second and third Cycles of Basic Education (BS2/3), attended by students aged between 10 and 16 and Secondary Schools with third Cycle of Basic Education (SS/3), attended by students aged between 12 and 18 years. The instruments used were the ‘Inventory of Health-related Behaviors of Adolescents’ (Corte-Real et al. 2004) and the ‘Scale of Satisfaction With Life’, a translated and adapted version of the Satisfaction With Life Scale (SWLS; Diener et al. 1985). The sample consisted of 5624 adolescents (53% ♀ and 47% ♂) aged between 12 and 17 years old ( = 14,33;
= 1,359). We found no statistically significant differences in none of the variables, except in the consumption of tobacco, in which we realized that students who attended SS/3 schools had higher intakes compared with adolescents of the same age, who were attending BS2/3 schools. We also concluded that girls showed more pronounced differences in all variables.