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Positive parenting, adolescent adjustment, and quality of adolescent diet in nine countries.

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Zietz, S; Cheng, E; Lansford, JE; Deater-Deckard, K; Di Giunta, L; Dodge, KA; Gurdal, S; Liu, Q; Long, Q; Oburu, P; Pastorelli, C; Skinner, AT ...
Published in: Journal of adolescence
December 2022

We sought to understand the relation between positive parenting and adolescent diet, whether adolescents' internalizing and externalizing behaviors mediate relations between positive parenting and adolescent diet, and whether the same associations hold for both boys and girls and across cultural groups.Adolescents (N = 1334) in 12 cultural groups in nine countries were followed longitudinally from age 12 to 15. We estimated two sets of multiple group structural equation models, one by gender and one by cultural group.Modeling by gender, our findings suggest a direct effect of positive parenting at age 12 on a higher quality diet at age 15 for males (β = .140; 95% CI: 0.057, 0.229), but an indirect effect of positive parenting at age 12 on a higher quality diet at age 15 by decreasing externalizing behaviors at age 14 for females (β = .011; 95% CI: 0.002, 0.029). Modeling by cultural group, we found no significant direct effect of positive parenting at age 12 on the quality of adolescent diet at age 15. There was a significant negative effect of positive parenting at age 12 on internalizing (β = -.065; 95% CI: -0.119, -0.009) and externalizing at age 14 (β = -.033; 95% CI: -0.086, -0.018).We founder gender differences in the relations among positive parenting, adolescents' externalizing and internalizing behaviors, and adolescent diet. Our findings indicate that quality of parenting is important not only in promoting adolescent mental health but potentially also in promoting the quality of adolescents' diet.

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Journal of adolescence

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EISSN

1095-9254

ISSN

0140-1971

Publication Date

December 2022

Volume

94

Issue

8

Start / End Page

1130 / 1141

Related Subject Headings

  • Humans
  • Diet
  • Developmental & Child Psychology
  • Child
  • Adolescent
  • 5205 Social and personality psychology
  • 5203 Clinical and health psychology
  • 5201 Applied and developmental psychology
  • 1701 Psychology
 

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Zietz, S., Cheng, E., Lansford, J. E., Deater-Deckard, K., Di Giunta, L., Dodge, K. A., … Bornstein, M. H. (2022). Positive parenting, adolescent adjustment, and quality of adolescent diet in nine countries. Journal of Adolescence, 94(8), 1130–1141. https://doi.org/10.1002/jad.12089
Zietz, Susannah, Emily Cheng, Jennifer E. Lansford, Kirby Deater-Deckard, Laura Di Giunta, Kenneth A. Dodge, Sevtap Gurdal, et al. “Positive parenting, adolescent adjustment, and quality of adolescent diet in nine countries.Journal of Adolescence 94, no. 8 (December 2022): 1130–41. https://doi.org/10.1002/jad.12089.
Zietz S, Cheng E, Lansford JE, Deater-Deckard K, Di Giunta L, Dodge KA, et al. Positive parenting, adolescent adjustment, and quality of adolescent diet in nine countries. Journal of adolescence. 2022 Dec;94(8):1130–41.
Zietz, Susannah, et al. “Positive parenting, adolescent adjustment, and quality of adolescent diet in nine countries.Journal of Adolescence, vol. 94, no. 8, Dec. 2022, pp. 1130–41. Epmc, doi:10.1002/jad.12089.
Zietz S, Cheng E, Lansford JE, Deater-Deckard K, Di Giunta L, Dodge KA, Gurdal S, Liu Q, Long Q, Oburu P, Pastorelli C, Skinner AT, Sorbring E, Steinberg L, Tapanya S, Tirado LMU, Yotanyamaneewong S, Alampay LP, Al-Hassan SM, Bacchini D, Chang L, Bornstein MH. Positive parenting, adolescent adjustment, and quality of adolescent diet in nine countries. Journal of adolescence. 2022 Dec;94(8):1130–1141.
Journal cover image

Published In

Journal of adolescence

DOI

EISSN

1095-9254

ISSN

0140-1971

Publication Date

December 2022

Volume

94

Issue

8

Start / End Page

1130 / 1141

Related Subject Headings

  • Humans
  • Diet
  • Developmental & Child Psychology
  • Child
  • Adolescent
  • 5205 Social and personality psychology
  • 5203 Clinical and health psychology
  • 5201 Applied and developmental psychology
  • 1701 Psychology