caa a22 4500 475738993 CHVBK 20180406123454.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170329e20001001xx s 000 0 eng 10.1023/A:1005568930849 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1023/A:1005568930849 Racial Differences in Adolescents' Perceived Vulnerability to Disease and Injury [Elektronische Daten] [Sydney Ey, Lisa Klesges, Stephen Patterson, Wendy Hadley, Marie Barnard, Bruce Alpert] This study examined gender and racial differences in adolescents' risk perceptions of major diseases and motor vehicle injury and whether these perceptions agree with national mortality rates and parental health history. Adolescent (N = 135; 55% African-American) boys and girls reported on their chances compared to other adolescents of developing specific diseases or experiencing a motor vehicle injury and their knowledge of parental health history. Logistic regression models revealed that girls' risk perceptions were similar to boys' ratings even though females are at less risk than males per national figures. Caucasian adolescents inaccurately perceived that they were at significantly greater risk than African-American peers for motor vehicle injury, stroke, cancer, and heart attack. Adolescents' knowledge of a father's diabetes was predictive of greater perceived vulnerability to diabetes. Plenum Publishing Corporation, 2000 risk perceptions nationallicence perceived vulnerability nationallicence adolescents nationallicence Ey Sydney Department of Psychology, University of Memphis, 38152, Memphis, Tennessee aut Klesges Lisa Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Tennessee, USA aut Patterson Stephen Department of Psychology, Ohio University, USA aut Hadley Wendy Department of Psychology, University of Memphis, 38152, Memphis, Tennessee aut Barnard Marie Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Tennessee, USA aut Alpert Bruce Department of Psychology, Ohio University, USA aut Journal of Behavioral Medicine Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers 23/5(2000-10-01), 421-435 0160-7715 23:5<421 2000 23 10865 https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1005568930849 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1005568930849 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Ey Sydney Department of Psychology, University of Memphis, 38152, Memphis, Tennessee aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Klesges Lisa Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Tennessee, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Patterson Stephen Department of Psychology, Ohio University, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Hadley Wendy Department of Psychology, University of Memphis, 38152, Memphis, Tennessee aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Barnard Marie Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Tennessee, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Alpert Bruce Department of Psychology, Ohio University, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of Behavioral Medicine Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers 23/5(2000-10-01), 421-435 0160-7715 23:5<421 2000 23 10865 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer