Ayres, C. and Pontes, N. (2018), USA | To examine the factors that may influence health responsibility among adolescents | Correlational study design | Health responsibility, resilience, neighborhood perception, social support, and health promoting | Health responsibility ―adolescent lifestyle profile (ALP-R2) Hendricks, Pender, & Hendricks, (2001), Resilience―brief resilience scale (BRS), Dalen, Wiggins, Tooley, Christopher, and Bernard (2008), Social support―the multidimensional scale of perceived social support (MSPSS), (Zimet, Dahlem, Zimet, & Farley, (1988), and neighborhood perception―perceived neighborhood disorder scale (PNDS), Ross & Mirowsky, (2001) | 122 adolescents aged 13 - 18 years in an urban setting in USA | Significant relationship was found between health responsibility and health promoting behaviors (r = 0.733, P < 0.001) and between health responsibility and neigborhood perception (r = 0.163, P < 0.01). No relationships were found between the dependent variable of health responsibility and the independent variables of resilience and social support in this population |