Daily parental knowledge of youth activities is linked to youth physical symptoms and HPA functioning

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• Personal Author:
  Almeida DM ; Davis KD ; Lippold MA ; McHale SM
• Description:
  Considerable evidence documents linkages between parental knowledge of youth activities and youth risky behavior. We extended this research to determine whether parental knowledge was associated with youth physical health, including reports of physical symptoms (e.g., headaches, stomachaches) and a biomarker of hypothalamic pituitary adrenocortical (HPA) axis functioning (i.e., salivary cortisol levels). Participants were children of employees in the Information Technology division of a Fortune 500 company (N = 132, mean age youth = 13.39 years, 55% female) who participated in a daily diary study. Data were collected via telephone calls on 8 consecutive evenings. On 4 study days, cortisol samples were collected at 4 time points (waking, 30 min after waking, before dinner, bedtime). Multilevel models revealed that, at the between-person level, youth whose parents had higher average knowledge about their activities, exhibited lower bedtime cortisol levels. Furthermore, at the within-person level, on days when parents displayed more knowledge than usual (relative to their own 8-day average), youth had lower before-dinner cortisol than usual. Linkages between average parental knowledge and physical health symptoms were moderated by youth age: Younger but not older adolescents whose parents were more knowledgeable had fewer physical health symptoms, on average. A next step is to identify the processes that underlie these associations. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Adolescent Behavior Biomarkers Endocrine System Occupational Health Risk Assessment Risk Factors Safety
• Keywords:
  Adolescents Adrenocortical Hormones Author Keywords: Parental Knowledge Children Cortisol Daily Diary Hormones HPA System Humans Models Physical Health Physiological Function Physiology Pituitary Glands Risk Factors

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• ISSN:
  0893-3200
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  North Carolina ; Oregon ; OSHA Region 10 ; OSHA Region 3 ; OSHA Region 4 ; Pennsylvania
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  245-253
• Volume:
  30
• Issue:
  2
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20048728
• Citation:
  J Family Psychol 2016 Mar; 30(2):245-253
• Contact Point Address:
  Melissa Lippold, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, School of Social Work, Tate-Turner Kurlat Bldg, 325 Pittsboro St. CB #3550, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3550
• Email:
  mlippold@unc.edu
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2016
• Performing Organization:
  Portland State University
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Start Date:
  20050901
• Source Full Name:
  Journal of Family Psychology
• End Date:
  20081130
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:c15474f3dd805b713cb4e3e2d688079595d6a817a5bc1c7c23a002bcfd631ad421801ef52a3aa3d3e72d3113c95ee854d8941f966fd02f11e089a8bcce6c4325
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  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/203409/cdc_203409_DS1.pdf
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