“I just want her to be happy and healthy”: Deploying broad understandings of health in class-privileged parenting

Pace, Jennifer; Mollborn, Stefanie; Rigles, Bethany

doi:10.1016/j.ssmqr.2022.100183

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“…Another small but growing school of research has studied linkages between social class and parents’ direct and indirect influence on young people’s health behaviours and understandings. Pace, Molborn, and Rigles (2022) described how parents in class‐privileged positions tend to understand health in broad terms as encompassing all types of activities that contribute to a child’s future prospects but also make conscious choices on what to prioritise. Mollborn et al.…”

Section: Establishing Health Lifestyles In Youthmentioning

confidence: 99%

The formation of classed health lifestyles during youth: A two‐generational, longitudinal approach

Eriksen

Stefansen

Langnes

et al. 2023

Sociology Health & Illness

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The topic of this article is the classed formation of health lifestyles in youth. Based on longitudinal interview data (41 youths, 17 of their parents) from two contrasting class contexts in Norway, we investigate how health lifestyles are reproduced across generations and during youth, focussing particularly on diet and physical activity. We find that young people’s health lifestyles are powerfully shaped by social class and moulded over time in ways that may impact their further health trajectory. The health practices of upper‐class young people are closely monitored; they are practically and emotionally scaffolded by their parents. Developing a rigorous health orientation, they come to view health as an investment for the future, intrinsically linked to achievement, discipline and identity. Working‐class parents focus more on the child’s autonomy in matters of diet and physical activity. Separating health practices from family life, their children’s health orientation becomes more fragile and their children’s health lifestyle trajectory more arbitrary and vulnerable to peer influence and marketised body cultures. Combining temporality, youth agency and relationality, it becomes evident that young people internalise their parents’ health lifestyle, leaving room for different expressions of youth agency.

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Section: Establishing Health Lifestyles In Youthmentioning

confidence: 99%

The formation of classed health lifestyles during youth: A two‐generational, longitudinal approach

Eriksen

Stefansen

Langnes

et al. 2023

Sociology Health & Illness

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“…Screening for self-care behaviors and evaluating those who engage in minimal as well as excessive self-care at a certain age and for a certain sex can highlight individuals in need of a novel self-care intervention within a particular country, district, or school. Lastly, on the individual level, attentive parents desiring insight into their child’s health-focused behavior may benefit from a scale measuring self-care behaviors prior to consultation with a doctor in the form of a test that is relatively short and easy to use ( Yerkes et al, 2021 ; Novoa et al, 2022 ; Pace et al, 2022 ).…”

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Child self-care autonomy in health (scale for parents): development, internal structure, and sex/age correlates

Mikhaylova,

Bochkor,

Osipova

et al. 2023

Front. Psychol.

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Autonomy in self-care practices in the health sphere is a critical characteristic for the survival of humans throughout the life span. Notably, however, the current literature lacks psychometrically sound instruments that measure this phenomenon among children without diagnosed chronic health conditions. The purpose of the present exploratory study was to develop, test, and provide data regarding the reliability and validity of the Child Self-Care Autonomy in Health (CSAH) scale. The piloted version of the CSAH yielded an 11-item instrument designed to reflect the parent’s perspective in measuring the extent of autonomy in self-care actions related to health for a child, whether diagnosed with a chronic illness or not. Data were collected through an online survey of a non-random sample of Russian-speaking parents currently residing in Russia (N = 349). The analysis focused on scale structure via principal component analysis and age/sex associations. The proposed CSAH may be of interest to social workers, health professionals, and parents seeking to ascertain schoolers’ autonomy in self-care practices in the health sphere and support building a stronger self-care mindset.

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Children’s Health Lifestyles and the Perpetuation of Inequalities

Mollborn,

Pace,

Rigles

2024

J Health Soc Behav

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Health lifestyles are a well-theorized mechanism perpetuating health and social inequalities, but empirical research has not yet documented crucial aspects: (1) health lifestyles’ collective nature or content beyond behaviors and (2) how people choose among available lifestyles in their social contexts. We conducted interviews, observations, and focus groups with families in two middle- to upper-middle-class communities. Contemporary class-privileged parenting involves constructing an individualized health lifestyle reliant on an expansive understanding of health and composed of parents’ identities and narratives, children’s health behaviors and identity expressions, and community norms. Children’s predominant health lifestyles in our sample vary by focus on parent versus child identity expression and on future achievements versus present well-being. Parents expect health lifestyles to influence future socioeconomic attainment and health inequalities. Understanding how health lifestyles encompass more than behaviors and are locally contextualized and how people choose them within structural constraints can inform research and policy.

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“I just want her to be happy and healthy”: Deploying broad understandings of health in class-privileged parenting

Cited by 3 publications

References 32 publications

The formation of classed health lifestyles during youth: A two‐generational, longitudinal approach

The formation of classed health lifestyles during youth: A two‐generational, longitudinal approach

Child self-care autonomy in health (scale for parents): development, internal structure, and sex/age correlates

Children’s Health Lifestyles and the Perpetuation of Inequalities

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