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Adolescents' proxy reports of parents' socioeconomic status: How valid are they?

Journal of epidemiology and community health (1979), 2001-10, Vol.55 (10), p.731-737 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health ;2001 INIST-CNRS ;COPYRIGHT 2001 BMJ Publishing Group Ltd. ;Copyright: 2001 Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health ;ISSN: 0143-005X ;EISSN: 1470-2738 ;DOI: 10.1136/jech.55.10.731 ;PMID: 11553657 ;CODEN: JECHDR

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Title:
Adolescents' proxy reports of parents' socioeconomic status: How valid are they?
Author: Lien, N ; Friestad, C ; Klepp, K-I
Subjects: Adolescent ; Adolescents ; Agreements ; Analysis of Variance ; Analysis. Health state ; Biological and medical sciences ; Education ; Epidemiology ; Families & family life ; Female ; General aspects ; Health behavior ; Humans ; Longitudinal Studies ; Male ; Medical sciences ; Mothers ; Norway ; Parent and child ; Parental occupation ; Parents ; Parents & parenting ; Polls & surveys ; Problems ; proxy ; Proxy reporting ; Proxy statements ; Psychology, Adolescent ; Public health. Hygiene ; Public health. Hygiene-occupational medicine ; Questionnaires ; Reproducibility of Results ; Researchers ; School age children ; Self Disclosure ; Social aspects ; Social Class ; Social classes ; Social perception in children ; Social status ; Socioeconomic factors ; Socioeconomic status ; Studies ; Teenagers ; Theory and Methods ; Validity ; Vocational education
Is Part Of: Journal of epidemiology and community health (1979), 2001-10, Vol.55 (10), p.731-737
Description: STUDY OBJECTIVE Children's proxy reports on indicators of their parents' socioeconomic status (SES) have either been used uncritically or dismissed as invalid. This paper examines the validity of young adolescents' reports of parental SES by comparing adolescent reports with parents' own reports of SES. DESIGN, SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS In 1990, 924 13 year olds, along with 648 of their fathers and 735 of their mothers, participated in the baseline survey of The Norwegian Longitudinal Health Behaviour Study. Data on parental occupation were collected from both adolescents and parents at baseline, while data on parental education were collected at follow up from the adolescents at age 15 and from their parents when the adolescents were 19 years old. MAIN RESULTS Three different ways of grouping the SES categories based on occupational data were investigated, and the strength of agreement was good for all three groups, with κ statistics ranging from 0.65 to 0.86. There were no significant improvements of agreement when comparing adolescent data from age 15 to adolescent data from age 13. The strength of agreements between the adolescents' and parents' reports of parental education were fair; κ statistics were 0.30 and 0.38 for fathers' and mothers' education, respectively. The proportions of unclassified answers or no responses from the adolescents were similar for questions on occupation and education, and ranged from 11% to 16%. CONCLUSIONS The agreement between adolescents' and parents' reports of SES based on occupation was judged to be good, but adding a few specific questions may cue the adolescent to provide more detailed information, thereby reducing the numbers of unclassified answers or non-responders.
Publisher: London: BMJ Publishing Group Ltd
Language: English
Identifier: ISSN: 0143-005X
EISSN: 1470-2738
DOI: 10.1136/jech.55.10.731
PMID: 11553657
CODEN: JECHDR
Source: ProQuest One Psychology
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Adolescents' proxy reports of parents' socioeconomic status: How valid are they?

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health ;2001 INIST-CNRS ;COPYRIGHT 2001 BMJ Publishing Group Ltd. ;Copyright: 2001 Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health ;ISSN: 0143-005X ;EISSN: 1470-2738 ;DOI: 10.1136/jech.55.10.731 ;PMID: 11553657 ;CODEN: JECHDR

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