Effects of parental behavior on tobacco use by young male adolescents

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A study by the Center for Family Research in Rural Marital Health, Iowa State University, concerning a sample of 204 seventh grade boys, their parents and siblings, used correlational and structural equation models to reveal that harsh parenting was directly related to adolescent tobacco use, while nurturing parenting was inversely related. The adolescents' acquaintance with tobacco-using peers influenced this relationship considerably.

Social aspects, Smokers, Teenage boys, Parenting, Family

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Parental education and adolescent self-reported physical health

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Parents' education was found to be related to changes in teenage self-reported physical health by the degree of and transformations in parental rejection by using latent growth curve analysis to a sample of 350 teenagers. However, parents' education was not found to be connected to the initial degree of adolescent self-reported physical health. Results were further supported by a prospective, longitudinal research design.

Education, Teenagers, Youth, Parents

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Marital quality and physical illness: a latent growth curve analysis

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A study examined the relationship between intraindividual changes in marital quality and physical illness in the rural Midwest. Findings showed that both the original level of and the shift in the marital quality of spouses are correlated to the original level of and the shift in physical condition. Moreover, psychological stability and health-risk behaviors were found to mediate or explain this relationship.

Marriage, Married people, Sick, Sick persons

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