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  • Adolescent Health
  • Behavioral Science
  • Family Studies

Background:

  • Parent-adolescent interactions critically impact adolescent health outcomes.
  • Parents play a key role in shaping adolescents' dietary habits and physical activity levels.
  • Parents can encourage healthy eating by providing fruits and vegetables and limiting unhealthy, energy-dense foods, and promote activity by modeling exercise and discouraging sedentary behavior.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the instrumental role of parents in adolescents' eating and activity behaviors.
  • To examine the association between parent instrumentality and adolescent health behaviors using relationship goal pursuit theory.

Main Methods:

  • Dyadic analyses of a national sample of 1,556 parent-adolescent dyads.
  • Assessed parent and adolescent perceptions of parent instrumentality for healthy behaviors.
  • Examined associations between parent instrumentality, adolescent behaviors, and adolescent Body Mass Index (BMI).

Main Results:

  • Adolescent-perceived parent instrumentality correlated with increased fruit/vegetable intake, physical activity, and reduced sedentary behavior.
  • Parent-perceived parent instrumentality linked to greater fruit/vegetable consumption, less hedonic eating, and more physical activity in adolescents.
  • Parental instrumentality for activity partially mediated adolescent BMI; instrumental parents exhibited healthier behaviors associated with lower parent BMI.

Conclusions:

  • Parental instrumentality is a crucial factor in promoting healthy adolescent eating and activity patterns.
  • Interventions targeting parental instrumentality for behavior can improve adolescent health.
  • Interventions should address both parent and adolescent perceptions of parental instrumentality for maximum effectiveness in behavior change.