Assessment of factors affecting the validity of self-reported health-risk behavior among adolescents: evidence from the scientific literature
| Autor: | William R. Grady, Nancy D. Brener, John O. G. Billy |
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| Rok vydání: | 2003 |
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Self-assessment Self-Assessment Psychometrics Adolescent Substance-Related Disorders Sexual Behavior Population Poison control Violence Affect (psychology) Developmental psychology Risk-Taking Injury prevention Humans education education.field_of_study Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Human factors and ergonomics Feeding Behavior Tobacco Use Disorder Psychiatry and Mental health Alcoholism Adolescent Behavior Pediatrics Perinatology and Child Health Psychology |
| Zdroj: | The Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine. 33(6) |
| ISSN: | 1054-139X |
| Popis: | We reviewed the existing empirical literature to assess cognitive and situational factors that may affect the validity of adolescents' self-reports of alcohol and other drug use, tobacco use, behaviors related to unintentional injuries and violence, dietary behaviors, physical activity, and sexual behavior. Specifically, we searched for peer-reviewed journal articles published in 1980 or later that examined the factors affecting self-report of the six categories of behavior listed above. We also searched for studies describing objective measures for each behavior. Self-reports of each of six types of health-risk behaviors are affected by both cognitive and situational factors. These factors, however, do not threaten the validity of self-reports of each type of behavior equally. The importance of assessing health-risk behaviors as part of research activities involving adolescents necessitates the use of self-report measures. Researchers should familiarize themselves with the threats to validity inherent in this type of assessment and design research that minimizes these threats as much as possible. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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