Positive parenting, adolescent adjustment, and quality of adolescent diet in nine countries.

Journal: Journal of adolescence

Volume: 94

Issue: 8

Year of Publication: 2022

Affiliated Institutions:  Association of University Centers on Disabilities, Center for Child and Family Policy, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA. Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, Massachusetts, USA. Department of Psychology, Università di Roma "La Sapienza", Rome, Italy. Division of Educational Sciences and Languages, University West, Trollhättan, Sweden. School of Public Health and Management, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China. Global Health, Duke Kunshan University, Kunshan, China. Department of Psychology, Maseno University, Maseno, Kenya. Division of Social Work and Social Pedagogy, University West, Trollhättan, Sweden. Department of Psychology and Neurosicence, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. Department of Psychiatry, Chiang Mai University, Suthep, Thailand. Department of Psychology, Universidad de San Buenaventura, Medellin, Colombia. Department of Psychology, Ateneo de Manila University, Quezon City, Philippines. Department of Special Education, Hashemite University, Zarqa, Jordan. Department of Humanistic Studies, University of Naples "Federico II", Naples, Italy. Child and Family Research, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.

Abstract summary 

We sought to understand the relation between positive parenting and adolescent diet, whether adolescents' internalizing and externalizing behaviors mediate relations between positive parenting and adolescent diet, and whether the same associations hold for both boys and girls and across cultural groups.Adolescents (N = 1334) in 12 cultural groups in nine countries were followed longitudinally from age 12 to 15. We estimated two sets of multiple group structural equation models, one by gender and one by cultural group.Modeling by gender, our findings suggest a direct effect of positive parenting at age 12 on a higher quality diet at age 15 for males (β = .140; 95% CI: 0.057, 0.229), but an indirect effect of positive parenting at age 12 on a higher quality diet at age 15 by decreasing externalizing behaviors at age 14 for females (β = .011; 95% CI: 0.002, 0.029). Modeling by cultural group, we found no significant direct effect of positive parenting at age 12 on the quality of adolescent diet at age 15. There was a significant negative effect of positive parenting at age 12 on internalizing (β = -.065; 95% CI: -0.119, -0.009) and externalizing at age 14 (β = -.033; 95% CI: -0.086, -0.018).We founder gender differences in the relations among positive parenting, adolescents' externalizing and internalizing behaviors, and adolescent diet. Our findings indicate that quality of parenting is important not only in promoting adolescent mental health but potentially also in promoting the quality of adolescents' diet.

Authors & Co-authors:  Zietz Cheng Lansford Deater-Deckard Di Giunta Dodge Gurdal Liu Long Oburu Pastorelli Skinner Sorbring Steinberg Tapanya Tirado Yotanyamaneewong Alampay Al-Hassan Bacchini Chang Bornstein

Study Outcome 

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Citations :  Achenbach TM (1991). Integrative Guide ot the 1991 CBCL/4–18 YSR, and TRF Profiles University of Vermont, Department of Psychology Pediatrics.
Authors :  22
Identifiers
Doi : 10.1002/jad.12089
SSN : 1095-9254
Study Population
Boys,Males,Girls,Females
Mesh Terms
Adolescent
Other Terms
adolescent adjustment;adolescent diet;positive parenting
Study Design
Study Approach
Country of Study
Kenya
Publication Country
England