title: Parent-teen worry about the teen contracting AIDS.
abstract: A secondary data analysis of the National Commission on Children: 1990 Survey of Parents and Children was conducted with a subsample of 457 parent-teen pairs who responded to the "worry about AIDS" question. The teen's worry about contracting AIDS was associated with race, parent's education, the amount of discipline from the parent for engaging in sex, the teen's desire to talk to the parent about the problem of sex, the teen's rating of the neighborhood as a safe place to grow up, whether the parent listened to the teen's telephone interview, and the parent's response to whether his or her teen had a history of sexually transmitted disease. Of the parent-teen pairs in the subsample, 46% (N = 210) agreed in their responses about worry. Agreement was more frequent among the parent-teen pairs when compared to randomly constructed surrogate pairs. Dyadic analysis supported a family system view of perceived susceptibility.
authors.affiliation: Department of Nursing, Henson School of Science, Salisbury State University, USA.
authors.forename: R M
authors.initials: RM
authors.lastname: Carroll
authors.forename: M P
authors.initials: MP
authors.lastname: Shepard
authors.forename: M M
authors.initials: MM
authors.lastname: Mahon
authors.forename: J A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Deatrick
authors.forename: A J
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: Orsi
authors.forename: H J
authors.initials: HJ
authors.lastname: Moriarty
authors.forename: S L
authors.initials: SL
authors.lastname: Feetham
mesh_terms: D000163:Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology* / Q000635:transmission*; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001294:Attitude to Health; D005239:Fear; D005260:Female; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D015404:Nursing Methodology Research; D010290:Parents / Q000523:psychology*; D000297:Psychology, Adolescent; D012307:Risk Factors; D012725:Sexual Behavior / Q000523:psychology; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014481:United States / Q000453:epidemiology