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- Title
Racial Differences in Adolescents' Perceived Vulnerability to Disease and Injury.
- Authors
Ey, Sydney; Klesges, Lisa M.; Patterson, Stephen M.; Hadley, Wendy; Barnard, Marie; Alpert, Bruce S.
- Abstract
This study examined gender and racial differences in adolescents' risk perceptions of major diseases and motor vehicle injury and whether these perceptions agree with national mortality rates and parental health history. Adolescent (N = 135; 55% African-American) boys and girls reported on their chances compared to other adolescents of developing specific diseases or experiencing a motor vehicle injury and their knowledge of parental health history. Logistic regression models revealed that girls' risk perceptions were similar to boys' ratings even though females are at less risk than males per national figures. Caucasian adolescents inaccurately perceived that they were at significantly greater risk than African-American peers for motor vehicle injury, stroke, cancer, and heart attack. Adolescents' knowledge of a father's diabetes was predictive of greater perceived vulnerability to diabetes.
- Subjects
RISK perception; ADOLESCENT psychology; DISEASES; ACCIDENTS; PSYCHOLOGY
- Publication
Journal of Behavioral Medicine, 2000, Vol 23, Issue 5, p421
- ISSN
0160-7715
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1023/A:1005568930849