Perceived social support and parental education as determinants of adolescents’ physical activity and eating behaviour: a cross-sectional survey

Glozah, Franklin N.; Pevalin, David J.

doi:10.1515/ijamh-2014-0019

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“…Upper middle Mixed 12-15 years (adolescent) 200 Multistage sampling, schools randomly selected from four educational zones of Mauritius and sample taken from three of these schools Glozah & Pevalin (37) Cross-sectional, self-reported questionnaires…”

Section: Mauritiusmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Qualitative and quantitative studies have found that the importance of household SES was apparent across a range of SES indicators including household income or wealth (23,24,33,43,50,54,57) , employment (32,43,45,56,57) , land ownership (43) and financial insecurity (22) . Educational level of individuals or parents was also found to play a role in dietary behaviours in several quantitative studies (30,33,37,(43)(44)(45)(46)52,54,56) . Higher parental education level was associated with better dietary intake in four quantitative studies among adolescents (30,33,37,46) , resulting in a higher modern dietary diversity score for adolescents in Tunisia, (30) higher household dietary diversity score in Ghana (33) and better healthy eating behaviours in Ghana (37) and Morocco (46) than those whose parents had average or low educational attainment.…”

Section: Mixed Adults; Female Adolescent Food Choicementioning

confidence: 99%

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Factors influencing dietary behaviours in urban food environments in Africa: a systematic mapping review

Osei-Kwasi

Mohindra

Booth

et al. 2020

Public Health Nutr.

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Objective: To identify factors influencing dietary behaviours in urban food environments in Africa and identify areas for future research. Design: We systematically reviewed published/grey literature (protocol CRD4201706893). Findings were compiled into a map using a socio-ecological model on four environmental levels: individual, social, physical and macro. Setting: Urban food environments in Africa. Participants: Studies involving adolescents and adults (11–70 years, male/female). Results: Thirty-nine studies were included (six adolescent, fifteen adolescent/adult combined and eighteen adult). Quantitative methods were most common (twenty-eight quantitative, nine qualitative and two mixed methods). Studies were from fifteen African countries. Seventy-seven factors influencing dietary behaviours were identified, with two-thirds at the individual level (45/77). Factors in the social (11/77), physical (12/77) and macro (9/77) environments were investigated less. Individual-level factors that specifically emerged for adolescents included self-esteem, body satisfaction, dieting, spoken language, school attendance, gender, body composition, pubertal development, BMI and fat mass. Studies involving adolescents investigated social environment-level factors more, for example, sharing food with friends. The physical food environment was more commonly explored in adults, for example, convenience/availability of food. Macro-level factors associated with dietary behaviours were food/drink advertising, religion and food prices. Factors associated with dietary behaviour were broadly similar for men and women. Conclusions: The dominance of studies exploring individual-level factors suggests a need for research to explore how social, physical and macro-level environments drive dietary behaviours of adolescents and adults in urban Africa. More studies are needed for adolescents and men, and studies widening the geographical scope to encompass all African countries.

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Section: Mauritiusmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Mixed Adults; Female Adolescent Food Choicementioning

confidence: 99%

Factors influencing dietary behaviours in urban food environments in Africa: a systematic mapping review

Osei-Kwasi

Mohindra

Booth

et al. 2020

Public Health Nutr.

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“…Highest education level of the parents has shown to have short-term and long-term effects on economic status, health, and well-being of the children (Dubow et al 2009). A single item on highest level of parental educational attainment has shown to predict effects on a wide range of social, psychological, physical, behavioral, and physiological health of children (Albrecht and Gordon-Larsen 2014;Peter and Sahn 2000;Glozah and Pevalin 2015;Marshall et al 2013;O'Toole and Wright 1991;Phillips et al 2009;Rok Simon et al 2016;Ross and Mirowsky 2011;Spera et al 2009;Vollmer et al 2017).…”

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confidence: 99%

Parental Education Better Helps White than Black Families Escape Poverty: National Survey of Children’s Health

Assari

2018

Economies

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According to the Blacks' Diminished Return theory, the health effects of high socioeconomic status (SES) are systemically smaller for Black compared to White families. One hypothesis is that due to the existing structural racism that encompasses residential segregation, low quality of education, low paying jobs, discrimination in the labor market, and extra costs of upward social mobility for minorities, Black families face more challenges for leveraging their education to escape poverty. Aims: Using a nationally representative sample of American families with children, this study investigated racial variation in the effects of highest education of parents on family's ability to scale poverty, defined as the household's income-to-needs ratio. Methods: This cross-sectional study used data from the National Survey of Children's Health (NSCH) 2003-2004-a nationally representative telephone survey that included 86,537 parents of children 0-17 years old. The sample was composed of White (n = 76,403, 88.29%) and Black (n = 10,134, 11.71%) families. The independent variable was highest education of the parents. The dependent variable was household poverty status (income-to-needs ratio). Race was the focal moderator. Linear regression was used in the pooled sample, as well as by race. Results: In the pooled sample, higher education of parents in the household was associated with lower risk of poverty. Race, however, interacted with parental education attainment on household-income-to-needs ratio, indicating smaller effects for Black compared to White families. Lower number of parents and higher number of children in Black families did not explain such racial disparities. Conclusions: The economic gain of parental education on helping family escape poverty is smaller for Black than White families, and this is not as a result of a lower parent-to-child ratio in Black households. Policies should specifically address structural barriers in the lives of all minorities to minimize the diminished return of SES resources across racial minority groups. Policies should also enhance quality of education and reduce the extra cost of upward social mobility for racial minorities. As the likely causes are multilevel, the solutions should also be multilevel. Without such interventions, it may be very difficult if not impossible to eliminate the existing economic and health gap between racial groups.

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“…From the perspective of all young individuals being both active and acted upon within their environmental contexts (Lerner and Overton, 2008), parents are presumed to impact significantly on their offspring's developmental processes, i.e., establishing physical activity behavior (McDavid et al, 2011;Gerard and Booth, 2015;Weiss and Phillips, 2015;Koning et al, 2016). Furthermore, parental influence, consisting of intangible (motivation and information) and tangible (instrumental and conditional) influential categories (Beets et al, 2010), as perceived by the adolescent, is revealed to be an important aspect of parental impact on adolescents' PA behavior (Glozah and Pevalin, 2015;. Applying a developmental perspective, Fredricks and Eccles (2004) suggest that parental influence differs according to developmental stage.…”

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confidence: 99%

Trajectories of Physical Activity Among Adolescents in the Transition From Primary to Secondary School

Mikalsen¹,

Bentzen²,

Säfvenbom³

et al. 2020

Front. Sports Act. Living

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Research on physical activity (PA) behavior reveals an overall decrease worldwide from early childhood and throughout adulthood. The ability to illuminate which factors promote activity for whom and in which phase of life, therefore, becomes a key concept in extending our understanding of individuals' physical activity trajectories. Accordingly, this study investigates latent trajectories of objectively measured PA in adolescents (n = 306) over 3 years from ages 13 to 15. Further, it was tested whether eagerness for physical activity, perceived athletic competence, and parental support were associated with the different trajectories of PA. Latent class growth analysis revealed two PA trajectories (trajectory 1: "decrease from very high" and trajectory 2: "steeper decrease from high"). Trajectory 1 had a higher PA level at baseline and less PA decline than trajectory 2. Trajectory 1, "decrease from very high," was associated with higher levels of eagerness for physical activity and perception of competence at all three time points. Furthermore, the effect size of differences between trajectory 1, "decrease from very high," and trajectory 2, "steeper decrease from high," increased from baseline (age 13, seventh grade) to posttest (age 15, ninth grade). This finding indicates a stronger experience of PA as enjoyable, personally relevant, and self-confirming behavior (i.e., "I regard myself as a person who exercises") within the most active adolescents and even stronger as they get older. Consistent with previous research, the PA level declined from seventh to ninth grade. Being more eager for PA and perceiving oneself more as athletically competent is related to higher levels of PA. This highlights the importance of optimizing environmental factors that increase adolescents' experience of eagerness for physical activity and physical athletic competence.

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Perceived social support and parental education as determinants of adolescents’ physical activity and eating behaviour: a cross-sectional survey

Cited by 18 publications

References 28 publications

Factors influencing dietary behaviours in urban food environments in Africa: a systematic mapping review

Factors influencing dietary behaviours in urban food environments in Africa: a systematic mapping review

Parental Education Better Helps White than Black Families Escape Poverty: National Survey of Children’s Health

Trajectories of Physical Activity Among Adolescents in the Transition From Primary to Secondary School

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