Mother-Adolescent Health Communication: Are All Conversations Created Equally?

Boone, Tanya L.; Lefkowitz, Eva S.

doi:10.1007/s10964-006-9138-2

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“…Second, the study confi rmed the salubrious effects of family programs, as documented by others (Dishion and Kavanagh, 2003;Spoth et al, 2007). Because girls often turn to their mothers for support and guidance, approaches that enhance mother-daughter bonds can draw from readily accessed resources (Boone and Lefkowitz, 2007). Third, the study argues for the viability of computer-mediated prevention programming.…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 64%

Gender-Specific Intervention to Reduce Underage Drinking Among Early Adolescent Girls: A Test of a Computer-Mediated, Mother-Daughter Program

Schinke

Cole

Fang

2009

J. Stud. Alcohol Drugs

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ABSTRACT. Objective: This study evaluated a gender-specific, computer-mediated intervention program to prevent underage drinking among early adolescent girls. Method: Study participants were adolescent girls and their mothers from New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut. Participants completed pretests online and were randomly divided between intervention and control arms. Intervention-arm girls and their mothers interacted with a computer program aimed to enhance motherdaughter relationships and to teach girls skills for managing confl ict, resisting media infl uences, refusing alcohol and drugs, and correcting peer norms about underage drinking, smoking, and drug use. After intervention, all participants (control and intervention) completed posttest and follow-up measurements. Results: Two months following program delivery and relative to control-arm participants, intervention-arm girls and mothers had improved their mother-daughter communication skills and their perceptions and applications of parental monitoring and rulesetting relative to girls' alcohol use. Also at follow-up, intervention-arm girls had improved their confl ict management and alcohol use-refusal skills; reported healthier normative beliefs about underage drinking; demonstrated greater self-effi cacy about their ability to avoid underage drinking; reported less alcohol consumption in the past 7 days, 30 days, and year; and expressed lower intentions to drink as adults. Conclusions: Study fi ndings modestly support the viability of a mother-daughter, computer-mediated program to prevent underage drinking among adolescent girls. The data have implications for the further development of genderspecifi c approaches to combat increases in alcohol and other substance use among American girls. (J. Stud. Alcohol Drugs 70: [70][71][72][73][74][75][76][77] 2009)

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 64%

Gender-Specific Intervention to Reduce Underage Drinking Among Early Adolescent Girls: A Test of a Computer-Mediated, Mother-Daughter Program

Schinke

Cole

Fang

2009

J. Stud. Alcohol Drugs

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“…Most of the topic-related queries were about sex. Although sex may be a more popular topic for adolescents in comparison with drugs and alcohol, previous research also indicates that mothers feel more comfortable when discussing drugs and alcohol with their adolescents in comparison with discussing sex [11]. Moreover, a previous study indicated that parents believed it is important to talk about sex and that doing so can be effective, but many of them had not done so because they did not know how [13].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Such a chatbot fits in with the tendency of adolescents to search for this information online [10]. This tendency could be explained by the difficulties the parents experience in communicating these topics [11], especially sex-related issues [12,13], which is reflected by parents' inclination to ask questions (instead of providing answers to the questions asked by their adolescent children). This may in itself be risky, resulting in adolescents' risk behavior [14], which is known to be highly prevalent among Dutch adolescents [15].…”

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An Artificially Intelligent Chat Agent That Answers Adolescents' Questions Related to Sex, Drugs, and Alcohol: An Exploratory Study

Crutzen

Peters

Portugal

et al. 2011

Journal of Adolescent Health

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“…Further, how often adolescents talk with their mothers about risk behavior is a protective factor against engaging in risk behavior. Compared to other topics, such as alcohol and drug use, mothers spend little time talking about sex for older teens (Boone & Lefkowitz, 2007). Because of the high importance of parent-child communication in regard to positive outcomes and the limited research conducted on younger adolescents, this research aims to establish what sex-related topics mothers have discussed or will discuss with their 9-to 15-year-old daughters.…”

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Mother–Daughter Communication About Sex: The Influence of Authoritative Parenting Style

Askelson

Campo

Smith

2012

Health Communication

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Parent-child communication about sex has been shown to delay sexual activity and increase contraceptive and condom use. The influence of authoritative parenting style and mothers' perception of daughters' risk on communication about sex was examined in this study. Mothers in a random sample (n=283) with daughters aged 9-15 years were mailed surveys asking about communication with their daughters regarding 11 sex-related topics. Multivariate linear regression was used to assess the influence of authoritative parenting style and mothers' perceptions of risk on the number of topics communicated about and age of the daughter at time of communication for a variety of sexual health communication topics. Authoritative parenting style was related to the number of topics communicated about and was a predictor of age of daughter at the time of communication about sexual intercourse, menstruation, dating/relationships, sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), HIV/AIDS, alcohol, contraceptives, and abstinence, while perceptions of risk were not significant influencers of age at the time of communication for any topics. This research points to the importance of parenting style in determining the timing of parent-child communication about sexual and other risk behaviors.

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Mother-Adolescent Health Communication: Are All Conversations Created Equally?

Cited by 34 publications

References 33 publications

Gender-Specific Intervention to Reduce Underage Drinking Among Early Adolescent Girls: A Test of a Computer-Mediated, Mother-Daughter Program

Gender-Specific Intervention to Reduce Underage Drinking Among Early Adolescent Girls: A Test of a Computer-Mediated, Mother-Daughter Program

An Artificially Intelligent Chat Agent That Answers Adolescents' Questions Related to Sex, Drugs, and Alcohol: An Exploratory Study

Mother–Daughter Communication About Sex: The Influence of Authoritative Parenting Style

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