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Intergenerational transmission of family meal patterns from adolescence to parenthood: longitudinal associations with parents’ dietary intake, weight-related behaviours and psychosocial well-being
- Source :
- Public Health Nutrition. 21:299-308
- Publication Year :
- 2017
- Publisher :
- Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2017.
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Abstract
- ObjectiveThe present study examined longitudinal associations between four family meal patterns (i.e. never had regular family meals, started having regular family meals, stopped having regular family meals, maintained having regular family meals) and young adult parents’ dietary intake, weight-related behaviours and psychosocial well-being. In addition, family meal patterns of parents were compared with those of non-parents.DesignAnalysis of data from the longitudinal Project EAT (Eating and Activity in Adolescents and Young Adults) study. Linear and logistic regressions were used to examine the associations between family meal patterns and parents’ dietary intake, weight-related behaviours and psychosocial well-being.SettingSchool and in-home settings.SubjectsAt baseline (1998; EAT-I), adolescents (n 4746) from socio-economically and racially/ethnically diverse households completed a survey and anthropometric measurements at school. At follow-up (2015; EAT-IV), participants who were parents (n 726) and who were non-parents with significant others (n 618) completed an online survey.ResultsYoung adult parents who reported having regular family meals as an adolescent and as a parent (‘maintainers’), or who started having regular family meals with their own families (‘starters’), reported more healthful dietary, weight-related and psychosocial outcomes compared with young adults who never reported having regular family meals (‘nevers’; PConclusionsResults suggest that mental and physical health benefits of having regular family meals may be realized as a parent whether the routine of regular family meals is carried forward from adolescence into parenthood, or if the routine is started in parenthood.
- Subjects :
- Adult
Male
Parents
0301 basic medicine
medicine.medical_specialty
Dietary Sugars
Health Behavior
Child Behavior
Medicine (miscellaneous)
Logistic regression
Article
Beverages
03 medical and health sciences
Vegetables
medicine
Humans
Longitudinal Studies
Bulimia
Parent-Child Relations
Young adult
Child
Psychiatry
Exercise
Meals
Family Characteristics
Meal
030109 nutrition & dietetics
Nutrition and Dietetics
Depression
Dietary intake
Body Weight
digestive, oral, and skin physiology
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
Feeding Behavior
Anthropometry
medicine.disease
Obesity
Self Concept
Diet
Socioeconomic Factors
Child, Preschool
Fruit
Well-being
Female
Psychology
Psychosocial
Follow-Up Studies
Demography
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 14752727 and 13689800
- Volume :
- 21
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Public Health Nutrition
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....389de74a9a5c3581fe46ad5e313a628e