Parental Expertise, Trustworthiness, and Accessibility: Parent-Adolescent Communication and Adolescent Risk Behavior

A communication framework of persuasion and attitude change was utilized to analyze parent-adolescent communication about adolescent risk behavior. Three parent dimensions were deemed important: (a) perceived expertise, (b) perceived trustworthiness, and (c) perceived accessibility. Data were collec...

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Veröffentlicht in:Journal of marriage and family Jg. 68; H. 5; S. 1229 - 1246
Hauptverfasser: Guilamo-Ramos, Vincent, Jaccard, James, Dittus, Patricia, Bouris, Alida M.
Format: Journal Article
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Malden, USA Blackwell Publishing Inc 01.12.2006
National Council on Family Relations
Blackwell Publishing
Blackwell Publishing Ltd
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adolescence
Adolescent mothers
adolescent sexual/contraceptive behavior
Adolescents
Adolescents in Families
Attitude Change
Attitudes
Behavior
Children
Cigarette smoking
Cigarettes
Communication
Communication (Thought Transfer)
Communication models
Contraception
Credibility
Daughters
Disadvantaged
Expertise
Experts
Family studies
Gender Differences
Intergenerational relations
Intergenerational relationships
Interpersonal Communication
Interpersonal relations
Knowledge
Mothers
Neighborhoods
New York
Parent Child Relations
Parent Child Relationship
Parent-adolescent relations
Parents
Parents & parenting
Persuasion
Poverty Areas
Resistance (Psychology)
Risk
Risk behavior
Sexual Behavior
Sexual intercourse
Smoking
Social communication
Social Psychology
Survey data
Surveys
Teenagers
tobacco use
Trust
U.S.A
New York
ISSN:0022-2445, 1741-3737
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Zusammenfassung:A communication framework of persuasion and attitude change was utilized to analyze parent-adolescent communication about adolescent risk behavior. Three parent dimensions were deemed important: (a) perceived expertise, (b) perceived trustworthiness, and (c) perceived accessibility. Data were collected in surveys from 668 mother-adolescent dyads in economically disadvantaged neighborhoods in New York City (N = 668). Results showed weak correspondence between how expert, trustworthy, and accessible mothers thought they were on the one hand and how their sons and daughters characterized them on the other. All dimensions were related to how often adolescents said they talked with their mothers about a risk behavior, which, in turn, was predictive of lower levels of adolescent risk behavior. Implications for future research are discussed.
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Division of Adolescent and School Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 4770 Buford Highway NE, MS K‐33, Atlanta, GA 30341.
Department of Psychology, Florida International University, 11200 SW 8th Street, University Park, DM 263, Miami, FL 33199.
School of Social Work, Columbia University, 1255 Amsterdam Avenue, New York, NY 10027.
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ISSN:0022-2445
1741-3737
DOI:10.1111/j.1741-3737.2006.00325.x