Family Dinners, Communication, and Mental Health in Canadian Adolescents
Family Dinners, Communication, and Mental Health in Canadian Adolescents
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DOI：
10.1016/j.jadohealth.2012.07.012
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发表时间：
2013-04-01
影响因子：
7.6
通讯作者：
Trites, Stephen J.
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作者：
Elgar, Frank J.;Craig, Wendy;Trites, Stephen J.
目的：要检查家庭聚餐的频率和积极和消极的方面的青少年的心理健康之间的关联，并确定这种关联是否是由青少年和parents.Methods之间的沟通质量的解释：社区样本的26,069青少年（11至15岁）参加了2010年加拿大健康行为的学龄儿童研究。青少年提供了关于每周家庭聚餐频率、父母与青少年沟通的便利性和心理健康的五个维度（内化和外化问题、情感幸福、亲社会行为和生活满意度）的自我报告数据。回归分析测试了家庭晚餐、家长与青少年沟通和心理健康之间的关系。结果：家庭晚餐的频率与内化和外化症状呈负相关，与情绪健康、亲社会行为和生活满意度呈正相关。这些关联与性别、年级或家庭富裕程度的差异没有相互作用。然而，分层回归分析发现，这些协会部分介导的父母与青少年的沟通，这解释了13%至30%的家庭晚餐对心理健康的影响，根据outcome.Conclusions的差异：这些研究结果，虽然相关，揭示了家庭晚餐的频率和青少年心理健康的积极和消极的方面之间的剂量反应关联。父母和青少年之间沟通的便利是造成这种联系的原因之一。(C)2013年青少年健康和医学协会。All rights reserved.
Purpose: To examine the association between the frequency of family dinners and positive and negative dimensions of mental health in adolescents and to determine whether this association is explained by the quality of communication between adolescents and parents.Methods: A community sample of 26,069 adolescents (aged 11 to 15 years) participated in the 2010 Canadian Health Behaviour of School-aged Children study. Adolescents gave self-report data on the weekly frequency of family dinners, ease of parent-adolescent communication, and five dimensions of mental health (internalizing and externalizing problems, emotional well-being, prosocial behavior, and life satisfaction). Regression analyses tested relations between family dinners, parent-adolescent communication, and mental health.Results: The frequency of family dinners negatively related to internalizing and externalizing symptoms and positively related to emotional well-being, prosocial behavior, and life satisfaction. These associations did not interact with differences in gender, grade level, or family affluence. However, hierarchical regression analyses found that these associations were partially mediated by differences in parent-adolescent communication, which explained 13% to 30% of the effect of family dinners on mental health, depending on the outcome.Conclusions: These findings, though correlational, revealed a dose-response association between the frequency of family dinners and positive and negative dimensions of adolescent mental health. The ease of communication between parents and adolescents accounted for some of this association. (C) 2013 Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine. All rights reserved.