Do family environment factors play a role in adolescents' involvement in organized activities?

Abstract

The study assessed the association of family environment factors with adolescents' participation in organized leisure-time activities (OLTA). We used data on 10,472 Czech adolescents aged 11e15 years (49.2% boys) from the 2013/2014 Health Behaviour in School-aged Children study. The associations of family support, the presence of parental screen-time rules and joint family activities with participation in at least one OLTA were assessed using logistic regression. High family support and the presence of parental screen-time rules were associated with higher odds of OLTA participation. Moreover, adolescents playing sports, indoor games and going for walks with their families at least weekly were more likely to participate in OLTA. Conversely, those spending time in joint family TV/video watching on most days were less likely to do so. A supportive family environment and direct parental involvement in their adolescent children's leisure are associated with OLTA participation in early to middle adolescence.

Association between insomnia and social network site use in Indonesian adolescents

“…The finding in this study stated that family support was not associated with insomnia, which was contradicts the Spielman theory and another previous study, which stated that family support affected sleep deprivation in adolescents. This condition can occur because adolescents are in the stage where they seek self‐identity and start to be independent from their parents, which could be observed by adolescents spending more time with their peers than with their parents. Adolescents have less time to discuss their problems with their parents, but they are more open to their peers, and they obtain more information from their peers than from their parents.…”

Connections between Family Assets and Positive Youth Development: The Association between Parental Monitoring and Affection with Leisure-Time Activities and Substance Use

“…In this sense, the literature indicates that the functional family is a protective factor. It can directly affect adolescents and increase the probability they will obtain positive health results [2,9,17,18]. In fact, together with the school and the community, it is one of the most important external assets to the adolescent and has a strong influence on the acquisition of positive health behaviours [12,19].…”

“…The family and family functioning play an important role in the types of leisure activities performed by adolescents [17]. Leisure time has an impact on adolescent development because it represents a place of free time and meaningful choices.…”

“…Previous studies have analysed the associations between these adolescent behaviours and different variables, including parental monitoring and affection [17,27]. However, few of these have done so in Spanish-speaking countries.…”

Curricular Transformation from the Perspective of the Trends in the Education of Pupils who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing in Czech Republic

“…In the course of education, an individual acquires key competences for their life as well as basic knowledge and information that can then be actively developed and used. However, this process -including encouraging children to embrace physically active lifestyles -also needs to be promoted in families from an early age, because it plays a crucial role in developing positive, health-oriented lifelong habits (Badura et al, 2017;Ellis et al, 2014;Sigmund, Sigmundová, 2014).…”