Are Parental Health Habits Transmitted to Their Children? An Eight Year Longitudinal Study of Physical Activity in Adolescents and Their Parents

Autor/inn/en	Anderssen, Norman; Wold, Bente; Torsheim, Torbjorn
Titel	Are Parental Health Habits Transmitted to Their Children? An Eight Year Longitudinal Study of Physical Activity in Adolescents and Their Parents
Quelle	In: Journal of Adolescence, 29 (2006) 4, S.513-524 (12 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0140-1971
DOI	10.1016/j.adolescence.2005.05.011
Schlagwörter	Parent Child Relationship; Parent Influence; Child Health; Health Behavior; Adolescents; Longitudinal Studies; Leisure Time; Physical Activities; Physical Activity Level; Foreign Countries; Norway + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Health behaviour; Gesundheitsverhalten; Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; Longitudinal study; Longitudinal method; Longitudinal methods; Längsschnittuntersuchung; Freizeit; Ausland; Norwegen
Abstract	Parents are believed to play a role in influencing their children's health behaviours. This longitudinal study of two generations (parents and their children) examined associations between parents' self-reported leisure-time physical activity changes and the self-reported physical activity changes of their offspring in a sample of 557 adolescents over an 8 year period (from 13 to 21 years of age). The results revealed only weak and non-existent associations between changes in parents' physical activity and changes in adolescent physical activity from 13 to 21 years of age. The findings did not support the hypothesis that adolescents' leisure-time physical activity covaried with their parents' leisure-time physical activity over time. This may mean that parental physical activity is not transmitted to their children to the degree that is often believed. (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10