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Assessment of Social Transmission of Food Preferences Behaviors
Published on: January 25, 2018
Codevelopment of Healthy and Unhealthy Dietary Behaviors: A Dyadic Examination of Parenting Practices and Adolescent
Camilla Piatkowski1, Shelly Keidar1, Nicole Carbert1
1BC Children's Hospital Research Institute, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada; School of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Objective:
To identify the pathways through which external, parental, and adolescent factors influence adolescents' motivation to adopt healthy dietary behaviors.
Methods:
A total of 28 ethnically and socioeconomically diverse (25% White) families were interviewed in which adolescents (mean age = 12.7 years; 50% girls) and parents (mean age = 43.3 years; 68% mothers) were interviewed separately. Data were first analyzed thematically, and family summaries, supplemented with diagrams, were then used to identify the processes through which factors influenced adolescents' dietary behaviors.
Results:
The analyses identified 3 main motivational pathways (intrinsic motivation, extrinsic motivation, and amotivation), wherein variability and inconsistencies were observed across and within pathways. The unique combination of external factors, parenting profiles, as well as adolescents' willingness to be socialized by family members, differentiated these pathways from each other.
Conclusions And Implications:
Health interventions need to target the overall approaches that parents use to socialize their adolescent to make healthy food choices instead of targeting specific parenting practices.
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