Harsh parenting, physical health, and the protective role of positive parent-adolescent relationships

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• Alternative Title:
  Soc Sci Med
• Personal Author:
  Schofield, Thomas J. ; Conger, Rand D. ; Gonzales, Joseph A. ; Merrick, Melissa T.
• Description:
  Rationale:
  
  Harsh, abusive and rejecting behavior by parents toward their adolescents is associated with increased risk of many developmental problems for youth.
  
  Objective:
  
  In the present study we address behaviors of co-parents that might help disrupt the hypothesized health risk of harsh parenting.
  
  Method:
  
  Data come from a community study of 451 early adolescents followed into adulthood. During early adolescence, observers rated both parents separately on harshness towards the adolescent. Adolescents reported on their physical health at multiple assessments from age 12 through age 20, and on parental warmth.
  
  Results:
  
  Harsh parenting predicted declines in adolescent self-reported physical health and increases in adolescent body mass index (BMI). Although the health risk associated with harshness from one parent was buffered by warmth from the other parent, warmth from the second parent augmented the association between harshness from the first parent and change over time in adolescent BMI.
  
  Conclusion:
  
  As appropriate, preventive interventions should include a focus on spousal or partner behaviors in their educational or treatment programs. Additional research is needed on the association between self-reported physical health and BMI in adolescence.
  
  
• Subjects:
  Adolescent Article Body Mass Index Child Child Maltreatment Child Rearing Female Health Status Humans Longitudinal Studies Male Parent-Child Relations Parenting Safe Social Support Stable Nurturing Relationships (SSNRs) Young Adult

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• Source:
  Soc Sci Med. 157:18-26.
• Pubmed ID:
  27060538
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC6134209
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Funding:
  R01 MH062989/MH/NIMH NIH HHS/United States ; K12 HD027748/HD/NICHD NIH HHS/United States ; R01 HD064687/HD/NICHD NIH HHS/United States ; R01 HL059355/HL/NHLBI NIH HHS/United States ; R01 HD047573/HD/NICHD NIH HHS/United States ; T32 MH019734/MH/NIMH NIH HHS/United States ; R01 HD051746/HD/NICHD NIH HHS/United States ; K05 MH000567/MH/NIMH NIH HHS/United States ; R01 MH051361/MH/NIMH NIH HHS/United States ; CC999999/Intramural CDC HHS/United States ; K01 AG053474/AG/NIA NIH HHS/United States ; F31 MH068165/MH/NIMH NIH HHS/United States ; F30 MH064320/MH/NIMH NIH HHS/United States
• Volume:
  157
• Collection(s):
  CDC Public Access
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:1695105ddbfc735f988009c41bb319c8b75be7a7874fc99e161f586a24dbcd58
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/58958/cdc_58958_DS1.pdf
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