Topic Variation in Levels of Agreement Between Parents and Adolescents |
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| Authors: | JESSOP DOROTHY JONES |
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| Affiliation: | Dorothy Jones Jessop is a sociologist and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Pediatrics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine. The research reported in this paper was carried out while the author was affiliated with the school of Public Health of Columbia University. The research was supported by grants from the National Institute on Drug Abuse: DA–000–64, ‘Family Processes in Adolescent Drug Use,’ Denise B. Kandel, Principal Investigator; and #5–P01–DA–01097 to the Center for Socio-Cultural Research on Drug Use, Columbia University. The author wishes to thank Denise Kandel for the use of these data and for her general help and support; Herbert Menzel and Caroline Persell, for their help on this paper and throughout the larger work of which this was a part; the friends and colleagues whose comments have been most helpful; and Mima deJesus for typing assistance. Any inadequacies are the responsibility of the author. |
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The object of this paper is to examine why agreement betweenparents and adolescents varies across topics in the way it doesand why discrepancies take the particular form they do. Datafrom a large-scale survey of adolescents matched with independentreports from their parents (N=3,988) have been used to showthat the level of dyadic agreement is influenced by the objectivityof the topic, its relation to social norms, and its salienceto the respondents. Agreement is high when the topic is objectiveand unambiguous, and when it does not activate problems of socialdesirability or personal threat. Topics which refer to recentevents produce slightly less agreement than less timebound topicswhen the topic is a potentially threatening one. The level ofagreement does not change if the referent is changed from theparent, to the student, or to those outside the dyad. |
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