Parents' Contributions to Children's Knowledge and Attitudes Regarding AIDS: Another Look |
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| Authors: | Sigelman, Carol K. Mukai, Takayo Woods, Teresa Alfeld, Corinne |
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| Affiliation: | George Washington University, National Institute of Mental Health Japan, University of Miami, University of Michigan 2All correspondence should be addressed to Carol K. Sigelman, Department of Psychology, The George Washington University, Washington, DC 20052 |
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| Abstract: | Attempted to determine, using a sample of students in Grades3, 5, and 7, whether parent-child communication about AIDS andparent knowledge of AIDS predict children's knowledge, socialattitudes, and worry regarding AIDS, partially replicating testsby Sigelman, Derenowski, Mullaney, and Siders (1993) of maineffects, interaction, and potentiation models of parent-childsocialization. Most parents had talked to their children aboutAIDS but many were susceptible to myths about HIV transmission.Child age was the strongest predictor of accurate knowledgeand positive attitudes, but gender, ethnicity, and parent educationalso made modest contributions. Consistent with the potentiationmodel, parent knowledge of common transmission myths predictedchild knowledge of those same myths (and willingness to interactwith individuals who have AIDS as well) only when parent-childcommunication about AIDS was relatively extensive (and onlywhen child rather than parent reported it). Findings suggestthat both the quantity and quality of parental messages mustbe considered by socialization researchers but that parentsmay not be the primary socializers of knowledge and attitudesregarding AIDS and other health issues. |
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| Keywords: | AIDS parents children socialization knowledge attitudes. |
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