Social Relationships and Health Behavior Across the Life Course

Umberson, Debra; Crosnoe, Robert; Reczek, Corinne

doi:10.1146/annurev-soc-070308-120011

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“…A associação encontrada entre apoio de interação social positiva e IMC era esperada, já que pressupõe a existência de vínculos sociais que proporcionam estímulo para atividades que beneficiam a saúde e a estética. A abordagem comportamental preconiza que os contatos sociais exercem influência e regulação sobre o indivíduo, incentivando a modificação dos hábitos pelo aumento do senso de responsabilidade, contribuindo para a saúde ao estimular comportamentos que a promovam em detrimento daqueles que a comprometem 8,32,33 . Assim, a associação negativa encontrada entre essa dimensão e o IMC, especificamente entre os homens de 40-49 anos, pode estar relacionada com preocupações sobre a imagem corporal, em que estudos sugerem o aumento da prática de comportamentos saudáveis por meio dos contatos sociais, como a redução do consumo de álcool, o abandono do hábito de fumar e adesão à prática de atividades físicas 13,27,34 .…”

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Diferenças de gênero e idade no apoio social e índice de massa corporal em adultos na Região Metropolitana do Rio de Janeiro, Brasil

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Diferenças de gênero e idade no apoio social e índice de massa corporal em adultos na Região Metropolitana do Rio de Janeiro, Brasil

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“…With regard to the family sphere, it was shown that the family environment not only shapes the life course of individuals but also deeply influences their wellbeing (Uhlenberg and Mueller 2003). Recent research examining the increasing diversity in family structures emphasizes that parenthood and parenting experiences influence wellbeing over life (Umberson et al 2010). Growing evidence suggests that the accumulation of social roles affects both men's and women's health (Bartley et al 1999;Bianchi and Milkie 2010).…”

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A Life Course Perspective on Health Trajectories and Transitions

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Sacker

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Life Course Research and Social Policies

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Life course research has been developing quickly these last decades for good reasons. Life course approaches focus on essential questions about individuals' trajectories, longitudinal analyses, cross-fertilization across disciplines like lifespan psychology, developmental social psychology, sociology of the life course, social demography, socio-economics, social history. Life course is also at the crossroads of several fields of specialization like family and social relationships, migration, education, professional training and employment, and health. This Series invites academic scholars to present theoretical, methodological, and empirical advances in the analysis of the life course, and to elaborate on possible implications for society and social policies applications.More information about this series at

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“…The interaction between parents (as proximal social determinants of health) and adolescents, and parents’ subjective norms/values and their action on the growth characteristics of adolescents can positively/negatively influence their general health and well-being (Blum et al, 2012; Lindqvist, Kostenius, Gard, & Rutberg, 2015; Sawyer et al, 2012; Viner et al, 2012; Umberson, Crosnoe, & Reczek, 2010). In fact, from some parents, the most common criticisms are related to the adolescent’s physical appearance or body size and they make every effort to adjust it.…”

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Parents’ concerns regarding the growth characteristics of their adolescents: a qualitative inquiry in Iran

Cheraghi

Rezasoltani

Vedadhir

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International Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health and Well

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In recent times, parents have become increasingly concerned, both subjectively and objectively, about their adolescents' body height/weight growth. Parent-adolescent interactions about this issue and the potential socio-psychological consequences of such interactions should be considered as an important influencing factor on the future of adolescents' sexual and reproductive health. To achieve a greater understanding of such concerns, it is necessary to further elucidate parents' experiences on this topic, so as to expand the existing literature. This study aimed to explain the perceptions of parents' concerns regarding their adolescents' growth characteristics in the socio-cultural context of Iran as a transitional society. This paper is part of a larger qualitative study designed using the Constructivist Grounded Theory Methodology (CGTM). We conducted open-ended intensive interviews with eleven parents individually and recruited them through purposeful and theoretical sampling from a teaching hospital, community, and a primary school in Tehran with theoretical sampling variation in terms of teenagers' age, sex, and birth order, place of residence, parents' occupation and education, and the self-reported socio-economic status. Using the analytical procedures of the CGTM, we performed analyses. In the findings, the concept of 'living with constant sense of uncertainty' emerged from the subcategories including 'feeling existing and potential concern about expected minimum and maximum bio-positions of growth,' 'feeling potential concern about biological health consequences,' 'feeling potential concern about the emergence of early/late maturity signs,' 'feeling potential concern about adolescent's emotional threat,' 'feeling concerned about future employment, education, marriage, and fertility,' and 'feeling potential concern about the society's view'. These findings suggest that parents are living with a constant sense of uncertainty about their teens' growth characteristics throughout the transition from adolescence. All stakeholders including parents, health-care practitioners and policymakers, and anthropologists/sociologists should be focus on such concerns, in order to manage them and their possible socio-psychological burdens.

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Social Relationships and Health Behavior Across the Life Course

Cited by 986 publications

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Diferenças de gênero e idade no apoio social e índice de massa corporal em adultos na Região Metropolitana do Rio de Janeiro, Brasil

Diferenças de gênero e idade no apoio social e índice de massa corporal em adultos na Região Metropolitana do Rio de Janeiro, Brasil

A Life Course Perspective on Health Trajectories and Transitions

Parents’ concerns regarding the growth characteristics of their adolescents: a qualitative inquiry in Iran

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