Family leadership styles and adolescent dietary and physical activity behaviors: a cross-sectional study

International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity

Mark R Beauchamp¹  Lisa S Perlmutter¹  Alexandra H Wilson¹  Katie L Morton² 

[1] School of Kinesiology, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, V6T 1Z1, Canada;Primary Care Unit, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Institute of Public Health, University of Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, CB2 0SR, UK

关键词: Nutrition;    Physical activity;    Adolescent health;    Parenting;    Leadership;    Family;   

Others  :  825043
DOI  :  10.1186/1479-5868-9-48

 received in 2011-10-05, accepted in 2012-04-30,  发布年份 2012

【 摘 要 】

Background

Transformational leadership is conceptualized as a set of behaviors designed to inspire, energize and motivate others to achieve higher levels of functioning, and is associated with salient health-related outcomes in organizational settings. Given (a) the similarities that exist between leadership within organizational settings and parenting within families, and (b) the importance of the family environment in the promotion of adolescent health-enhancing behaviors, the purpose of this exploratory study was to examine the cross-sectional relationships between parents’ transformational leadership behaviors and adolescent dietary and physical activity behaviors.

Methods

857 adolescents (aged 13–15, mean age = 14.70 yrs) completed measures of transformational parenting behaviors, healthful dietary intake and leisure-time physical activity. Regression analyses were conducted to examine relationships between family transformational leadership and adolescent health outcomes. A further ‘extreme group analysis’ was conducted by clustering families based on quartile splits. A MANCOVA (controlling for child gender) was conducted to examine differences between families displaying (a) HIGH levels of transformational parenting (consistent HIGH TP), (b) LOW levels of transformational parenting (consistent LOW TP), and (c) inconsistent levels of transformational parenting (inconsistent HIGH-LOW TP).

Results

Results revealed that adolescents’ perceptions of family transformational parenting were associated with both healthy dietary intake and physical activity. Adolescents who perceived their families to display the highest levels of transformational parenting (HIGH TP group) displayed greater healthy eating and physical activity behaviors than adolescents who perceived their families to display the lowest levels of transformational parenting behaviors (LOW TP group). Adolescents who perceived their families to display inconsistent levels of transformational parenting behaviors (HIGH-LOW TP group) displayed the same levels of healthy eating behaviors as those adolescents from the LOW TP group. For physical activity behaviors, adolescents who perceived their families to display inconsistent levels of transformational parenting behaviors (HIGH-LOW TP group) did not differ in terms of physical activity than those in either the HIGH TP or LOW TP group.

Conclusions

Family transformational parenting behaviors were positively associated with both healthful dietary intake and leisure-time physical activity levels amongst adolescents. The findings suggest that transformational leadership theory is a useful framework for understanding the relationship between family leadership behaviors and adolescent health outcomes.

【 授权许可】

   
2012 Morton et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.

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