Parenting Style, Parenting Stress, and Childrenʼs Health-Related Behaviors

Abstract

These findings suggest that higher levels of warmth, characteristics of both parenting styles, may be a critical factor in the development of health-related behaviors.

Childhood Psychosocial Adversity and Adult Neighborhood Disadvantage as Predictors of Cardiovascular Disease

“…Financial difficulties or parental distress, for example, may decrease health-promoting parenting, thus adversely affecting children's health behaviors. 32 Disadvantaged neighborhoods characterized by a high prevalence of smoking or public drinking may reduce motivation to initiate and maintain healthy behaviors. 33 Common pathways such as social stress may partly explain the observed strong link for childhood psychosocial adversity and adult neighborhood disadvantage with 1 health behavior, namely smoking.…”

Maternal Health Status and Parenting Stress in Low-Income, Ethnic-Minority Mothers of Children with Conduct Disorder Problems: the Role of Daily Parenting Hassles

“…Parenting stress has been linked to harsh parenting, maternal depression, and poor cognitive, socio-emotional, and physical development in children [8–14]. Parenting stress is thought to more directly affect parenting practices and family dynamics more so than other sources of stress such as workplace or financial stress.…”

Adverse experiences in childhood, adulthood neighbourhood disadvantage and health behaviours

“…The long-term health effects of childhood experiences may be related to differences in health-promoting parenting as financial difficulties or parental distress may affect children's health behaviors34 that may have long-lasting effects on health. One pathway suggested for the neighbourhood disadvantage—health behaviour association is that the initiation and maintenance of healthy behaviours is more difficult for people living in disadvantaged vs wealthy neighbourhoods because in their daily lives they are exposed to behaviours such as smoking or public drinking 35.…”