@article{ref1,
title="Are Parental Gender Role Beliefs a Predictor of Change in Sexual Communication in a Prevention Program?",
journal="Behavior modification",
year="2007",
author="Armistead, Lisa and Long, Nicholas and Whitaker, Daniel J. and Miller, Kim S. and Forehand, Rex and Gale McKee, Laura",
volume="31",
number="4",
pages="435-453",
abstract="This study examined if pre-intervention maternal gender role beliefs predict change in sexual communication in a sexual risk behavior prevention program designed to increase parent—pre-adolescent communication about sex. A sample of 281 African American fourth and fifth graders and their mothers participated in the five-session program and completed computerized questionnaires at baseline, postintervention, and 6-month follow-up. Based on mother report, more egalitarian maternal gender role beliefs predicted greater increases in parent—pre-adolescent communication about sex at postintervention. Based on pre-adolescent report, similar findings emerged at the 6-month follow-up, but only for boys. The relationship of maternal gender role beliefs to changes in sexual communication was not accounted for by maternal comfort with sexual communication with their pre-adolescents. The implications of maternal gender role beliefs in a prevention program designed to increase communication about sexual topics are considered.<p />",
language="",
issn="0145-4455",
doi="10.1177/0145445506298411",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0145445506298411"
}