Multiple Influences on the Acquisition and Socialization of Children's Health Attitudes and Behavior: An Integrative Review

Tinsley, Barbara J.

doi:10.1111/j.1467-8624.1992.tb01680.x

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“…Much of this research has emanated from the literature on family socialization processes (Baranowski & Nader, 1986; Tinsley, 1992) including social cognitive theory (Bandura, 1986). One of the primary concepts in social cognitive theory is observational learning, a process through which individuals evaluate and model the behaviors of others.…”

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Information Seeking About Global Climate Change Among Adolescents: The Role of Risk Perceptions, Efficacy Beliefs, and Parental Influences

Mead

Roser-Renouf

Rimal

et al. 2012

Atlantic Journal of Communication

123

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Global climate change is likely to have significant impacts on public health. Effective communication is critical to informing public decision making and behavior to mitigate climate change. An effective method of audience segmentation, the risk perception attitude (RPA) framework has been previously tested with other health behaviors and classifies people into 4 groups on the basis of their perceptions of risk and beliefs about personal efficacy. The 4 groups – indifference (low risk, weak efficacy), proactive (low risk, strong efficacy), avoidance (high risk, weak efficacy), and responsive (high risk, strong efficacy) – are hypothesized to differ in their self-protective behaviors and in their motivations to seek information. In this paper, we extend the RPA framework in two ways. First, we use it at the household level to determine whether parental classifications into the 4 groups are associated with their teenage children’s classification into the same 4 groups. Second, we predict adolescent information-seeking behaviors on the basis of their and their parents’ membership in the 4 RPA groups. Results (N = 523 parent-adolescent pairs) indicated that parental membership in the 4 RPA groups was significantly associated with children’s membership in the same 4 groups. Furthermore, the RPA framework was a significant predictor of adolescent information-seeking: those in the responsive and avoidance groups sought more information on climate change than the indifference group. Family communication on global warming was positively associated with adolescents’ information-seeking. Implications for interventions are discussed.

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Section: The Risk Perception Attitude Frameworkmentioning

confidence: 99%

Information Seeking About Global Climate Change Among Adolescents: The Role of Risk Perceptions, Efficacy Beliefs, and Parental Influences

Mead

Roser-Renouf

Rimal

et al. 2012

Atlantic Journal of Communication

123

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“…It has also been suggested that illness is a learning experience for children27 28 and that developmental changes in concepts of illness may be the result of experience rather than stages of cognitive development 29. Children with chronic illnesses have a more sophisticated and mature understanding of illness than well peers 29…”

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Jenney

Campbell

1997

Archives of Disease in Childhood

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“…Parents shape both children's health-related behaviors and their food environments (Tinsley, 1992), thus playing a primary role in the development of eating behavior. Costanzo and Woody's (1985) domain-specific obesity proneness model posits that parents who are concerned about their child's obesity proneness may exert more control over eating behavior, potentially through use of restrictive feeding practices and encouragement to diet.…”

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Parental encouragement of dieting promotes daughters’ early dieting

Balantekin¹,

Savage²,

Marini³

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Dieting to lose weight is common among female adolescents. This research investigated the association between maternal and paternal encouragement to diet and their daughters' self-reported “early dieting” (prior to age 11y) and adolescent dieting (between 11y and 15y), and how parental encouragement to diet is related to changes in daughter BMI percentiles. Participants in this study were 174 non-Hispanic white girls and their parents, assessed when daughters were age 9-, 11-, 13-, and 15y. The Parent Encouragement of Child Weight Loss Scale was used to measure encouragement to diet. Logistic regression was used to examine the relationship between parental encouragement to diet and daughters' reports of dieting by 11y and by 15y, adjusting for daughters' weight status at baseline. Compared to girls whose mothers didn't encourage dieting, girls who were encouraged to diet were twice as likely to diet by 11y; girls who were encouraged by their fathers were also twice as likely to diet by 11y. Girls who were encouraged to diet by both parents were 8 times more likely to report early dieting than girls who were not. Neither maternal nor paternal encouragement predicted the emergence of dieting during adolescence. Girls who dieted and had parental encouragement to do so had increases in BMI percentile from 9y to 15y. Findings reveal that parental encouragement to diet may be counterproductive and that parents need alternative approaches to promote healthy patterns of intake and growth among young girls.

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Multiple Influences on the Acquisition and Socialization of Children's Health Attitudes and Behavior: An Integrative Review

Cited by 62 publications

References 99 publications

Information Seeking About Global Climate Change Among Adolescents: The Role of Risk Perceptions, Efficacy Beliefs, and Parental Influences

Information Seeking About Global Climate Change Among Adolescents: The Role of Risk Perceptions, Efficacy Beliefs, and Parental Influences

Measuring quality of life

Parental encouragement of dieting promotes daughters’ early dieting

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