Abstract
How adolescents' personal sense of directedness (i.e., peer, parent, or self-directed orientation) affects the decision-making processes of adolescent students regarding AIDS-related knowledge, attitudes, beliefs, behaviors, and skills (KABBS) is examined. The sample consisted of 10th-grade students in 8 public high schools (N = 2,515) in Dade County (greater Miami), Florida. The findings showed that decision-making orientation and directedness was a significant predictor of AIDS-related KABBS of adolescents. Overall, the level of AIDS-related KABBS that were associated with low risk was found significantly more often among self-directed students and least often among peer-directed students. The findings of this study suggest that future preadult health-risk research should incorporate the concept of differences of information processing across adolescents.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 227-234 |
Number of pages | 8 |
Journal | Health Psychology |
Volume | 12 |
Issue number | 3 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - May 1993 |
Keywords
- adolescents
- AIDS-related knowledge, attitudes, beliefs, behaviors, and skills
- decision-making
- decision-making orientation/directedness
- information processing
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Applied Psychology
- Psychiatry and Mental health
- Psychology(all)