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The Associations Between the Health Promoting Behaviors of Low Income Parents/caregivers and Those of Their Chronically Ill Adolescents

出版	University of Florida, 2008
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=RUmQDAEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋ABSTRACT: The purpose of this study was to empirically examine whether primary parents'/caregivers' engagement in specific health-promoting behaviors that help constitute a healthy lifestyle (e.g., exercising consistently, eating a healthy diet, and health responsibility behaviors) will influence engagement in these health promoting behaviors and a health promoting lifestyle among their chronically ill adolescents. This study used the concept of modeling as described by Social Learning Theory (Bandura, 1986) as a framework for examining parental influences of engagement in both a health-promoting lifestyle (HPL) and individual health-promoting behaviors among chronically ill, low-income Black and non-Hispanic White adolescents (N=79). The individual health promoting behaviors investigated are exercising consistently, eating a healthy diet, and health responsibility behaviors. Results from a Pearson Correlation indicated that the participating adolescents' levels of engagement in the investigated specific health promoting behaviors (e.g., exercising consistently, eating a healthy diet, and health responsibility behaviors) were indeed associated with their primary parents'/caregivers' engagement in these specific health promoting behaviors.