Is Teen Risk of Having Sex With Strangers Associated With Family Environment? Family Processes, Household Structure, and Adolescent Sex With Strangers

Pain, Emily

doi:10.1177/0044118x18772698

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“…Currently, the family context is conceived to be one of the most important elements with regards to whether students acquire appropriate daily life habits [ 1 , 2 ]. For this reason, the family ambit is assumed to be a vital determinant of human behaviour [ 3 , 4 ].…”

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Physical Activity Level, Mediterranean Diet Adherence, and Emotional Intelligence as a Function of Family Functioning in Elementary School Students

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(1) Background: Family is considered as one of the most important elements for the transmission of healthy habits that improve the lives of students. For this reason, the present study aims to describe the degree of family functionality, emotional intelligence, Mediterranean diet adherence, and extra-curricular physical activity engagement. A further aim is to perform a correlational analysis between these variables. (2) Methods: To this end, an ad hoc questionnaire was used, alongside the APGAR, KIDMED, and Trait Meta Mood Scale (TMMS-24). (3) Results: Finally, the data suggest that a high percentage of students need to improve their diet. Further, students reporting severe family dysfunction showed worse outcomes. Thus, levels of emotional clarity were lower when family functionality was poor. Poor diet quality was also associated with lower emotional attention, with Mediterranean diet adherence being positively related to emotional clarity and repair, as well as normal family functionality. (4) Conclusions: Boys showed higher levels of adherence to the Mediterranean diet adherence, while girls reported higher family functionality. Thus, compliance with the minimum recommendations for physical activity engagement was associated with adequate adherence to the Mediterranean diet. The importance of diet for obtaining an optimal physical condition, adequate emotional state, and family functionality is highlighted.

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Physical Activity Level, Mediterranean Diet Adherence, and Emotional Intelligence as a Function of Family Functioning in Elementary School Students

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“…Families play an important role in the development of adolescents’ sexual decision making. For example, parents can help impact their adolescents’ sexual decisions directly by communicating about sexual topics (see Widman et al, 2016, for review), or indirectly by conveying values, providing a supportive home environment, and through their secure attachment (Pain, 2020; Potard et al, 2017). Family communication patterns theory (Koerner & Fitzpatrick, 2006) provides a guiding theoretical framework to better understand parent–child communication.…”

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Parent–child communication and adolescent sexual decision making: An application of family communication patterns theory.

Hurst

Widman

Maheux

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Journal of Family Psychology

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Family communication patterns theory proposes two dimensions of family communication-conversation orientation and conformity orientation-that can impact adolescent decision making. The purpose of this study is to examine how family communication patterns, above and beyond the frequency of parent-child sexual communication, are associated with adolescents' (a) sexual self-efficacy, (b) intentions to communicate about sex with partners, and (c) intentions to use condoms. Participants were 452 U.S. adolescents (M age = 15.06; 59% girls; 35% White, 33% Latinx, 25% Black). Controlling for the frequency of parent-child sexual communication and gender, we found the interaction between conversation and conformity orientation was associated with adolescent sexual self-efficacy and intentions to communicate about sex with partners. When families were high on conversation and low on conformity, adolescents had statistically significantly higher sexual self-efficacy than any other family communication patterns. When families were low on conversation and low on conformity, adolescents had statistically significantly lower intentions to communicate with future sex partners than any other family communication pattern. Findings highlight the importance of understanding general communication processes beyond the frequency of parent-child sexual communication.

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“…The ritualization given by family mealtime was found able to increase adolescents' perceived wellbeing, self-esteem and school success (Compañ, Moreno & Ruiz, 2002), healthy eating habits and the possibility to reach a regular weight during development (Fiese, Tomcho, Douglas, Josephs, Plttrock & Baker, 2002;Sen, 2006). A further countercheck was given by research about families with low-socioeconomic backgrounds, where skipping meals did turn out to be dangerous for both the physical and the psychological health of adolescents (Molcho, Gabhain, Kelly, Friel & Keller, 2007).…”

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Family mealtime against adolescents’ drinking, drug use, and other risk behaviours. Then and now.

Perasso

Carraro²,

Ozturk

2020

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During adolescence, the frequency of family meals may play an important role in both counteracting risk behaviours (e.g., drugs and alcohol use, delinquency, etc.) and in promoting healthy life-styles. Objective. The aim of the present review is to chronologically order and discuss evidence supporting or disconfirming family mealtime’s effectiveness against adolescents‘ risk behaviours. Method. The present work integrated two search-strategies: scientific databanks strategies and retrospective research on sources. Inter-rater quality assessment was applied to obtain three clusters of literature; pioneering studies about nutritional habits, last decades’ evidence, and challenges for future research. Results. Effectiveness of family mealtime in preventing adolescents’ risk behaviours and in promoting healthy lifestyles and positive outcomes is discussed. Conclusions. Open theoretical and methodological questions emerged such as the lack of scientific consensus on how to measure the family mealtime frequency or the need to provide qualitative assessments about the family mealtime experience, among others.

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Is Teen Risk of Having Sex With Strangers Associated With Family Environment? Family Processes, Household Structure, and Adolescent Sex With Strangers

Cited by 5 publications

References 23 publications

Physical Activity Level, Mediterranean Diet Adherence, and Emotional Intelligence as a Function of Family Functioning in Elementary School Students

Physical Activity Level, Mediterranean Diet Adherence, and Emotional Intelligence as a Function of Family Functioning in Elementary School Students

Parent–child communication and adolescent sexual decision making: An application of family communication patterns theory.

Family mealtime against adolescents’ drinking, drug use, and other risk behaviours. Then and now.

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