Person and Environment in HIV Risk Behavior Change Between Adolescence and Young Adulthood

This article explores how personal and environmental variables influence change in human immunodeficiency virus (HlV)-related risk behaviors between adolescence and young adulthood. Repeated interviews with 602 youths from 10 cities across the United States provide the data. These interviews first o...

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Published in:Health education & behavior 1995-05, Vol.22 (2), p.211-226
Main Authors: Stiffman, Arlene Rubin, Dore, Peter, Cunningham, Renee M., Earls, Felton
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adolescent
Adult
AIDS/HIV
Biological and medical sciences
Child of Impaired Parents - psychology
Environmental aspects
Female
Follow-Up Studies
Health Education
Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice
HIV Infections - prevention & control
HIV Infections - psychology
HIV Infections - transmission
Human immunodeficiency virus
Humans
Male
Medical sciences
Miscellaneous
Peer Group
Personal characteristics
Personality Assessment
Prevention and actions
Public health. Hygiene
Public health. Hygiene-occupational medicine
Relationship
Risk behaviour
Risk-Taking
Social Environment
Social Problems - psychology
United States
Urban Population
Young adults
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Summary:This article explores how personal and environmental variables influence change in human immunodeficiency virus (HlV)-related risk behaviors between adolescence and young adulthood. Repeated interviews with 602 youths from 10 cities across the United States provide the data. These interviews first occurred in 1984-1985 and 1985-1986 when the youths were adolescents and were repeated again in 1989-1990 and 1991-1992 when they were all young adults. A longitudinal multivariate analysis shows that 31% of the variance in HIV risk behaviors by inner-city young adults is predicted by a combination of adolescent risk behaviors, personal variables (suicidality, substance misuse, antisocial behavior), environmental variables (history of child abuse, poor relations with parents, stressful events, peer misbehavior, number of AIDS prevention messages), and interactions between variables (number of neighborhood murders with child abuse, number of neighborhood murders with substance misuse, and unemployment rates with antisocial behavior).
ISSN:0195-8402
1090-1981
1552-6127
2732-5601
DOI:10.1177/109019819502200209