Parental Awareness of Adolescent Risk Involvement: Implications of Overestimates and Underestimates

Journal of Adolescent Health

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 353-361

  Yang, Hongmei ^a   Stanton, Bonita ^a   Cottrel, Lesley ^b   Kaljee, Linda ^c   Galbraith, Jennifer ^c   Li, Xiaoming ^a   Cole, Mathew ^a   Harris, Carole ^d   Wu, Ying ^e  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF NURSING   (United States)

Author keywords

Adolescent; Parent adolescent communication; Parent adolescent discordance; Parental monitoring; Risk behaviors

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ADOLESCENCE; ADOLESCENT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MALE; MONITORING; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PARENTAL ATTITUDE; PERCEPTION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIGION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEXUAL FUNCTION; SUBSTANCE ABUSE; UNITED STATES; URBAN POPULATION; VIOLENCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AWARENESS; COMMUNICATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEISURE ACTIVITIES; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MARIJUANA SMOKING; MARYLAND; ODDS RATIO; PARENT-CHILD RELATIONS; PARENTS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK-TAKING; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SMOKING; VIOLENCE;

EID: 33747124665     PISSN: 1054139X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jadohealth.2005.12.008     Document Type: Article

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