Decision-Making Orientation and AIDS-Related Knowledge, Attitudes, and Behaviors of Hispanic, African-American, and White Adolescents

Lilly M. Langer; Rick S. Zimmerman; George J. Warheit; Robert C. Duncan

doi:10.1037/0278-6133.12.3.227

Decision-Making Orientation and AIDS-Related Knowledge, Attitudes, and Behaviors of Hispanic, African-American, and White Adolescents

Lilly M. Langer, Rick S. Zimmerman, George J. Warheit, Robert C. Duncan

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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)
Pages (from-to)	227-234
Number of pages	8
Journal	Health Psychology
Volume	12
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1037/0278-6133.12.3.227
State	Published - May 1993

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adolescents
AIDS-related knowledge, attitudes, beliefs, behaviors, and skills
decision-making
decision-making orientation/directedness
information processing

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Applied Psychology
Psychiatry and Mental health
Psychology(all)

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