ERIC Number: EJ975312
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2012
Pages: 8
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ISSN: ISSN-0193-3973
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Unintentional Injury Risk in School-Age Children: Examining Interrelations between Parent and Child Factors
Wells, Melissa; Morrongiello, Barbara A.; Kane, Alexa
Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, v33 n4 p189-196 Jul-Aug 2012
Objective: Research on children's risk of injury reveals that parent and child factors are often interrelated. This study examined relations between children's risk taking, parent appraisal of this risk taking, and children's rate of injury in youth 8 and 9 years old. Methods: Responses to questionnaires and laboratory tasks were used to examine whether extent of consistency in children's physical risk taking related to mothers' accuracy in predicting children's risk behaviors, and if mothers' accuracy scores, in turn, related to rate of unintentional injury for their school-age children. Results: Child consistency in risk taking predicted parental accuracy in judging children's risk taking, and degree and direction of accuracy predicted children's injury rates. Conclusions: Parents' judgments about their children's likelihood of risk taking are influenced by children's behavioral consistency and have implications for children's frequency of injury. (Contains 2 tables and 1 figure.)
Descriptors: Mothers, Injuries, Parent Child Relationship, Risk, Correlation, Questionnaires, Laboratories, Task Analysis, Behavior, Children, Research, Accuracy, Prediction
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Adult Education; Elementary Education
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Language: English
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