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Health Education Research Advance Access originally published online on August 14, 2006
Health Education Research 2007 22(2):295-304; doi:10.1093/her/cyl080
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Perceived parenting style and practices and the consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages by adolescents

Klazine van der Horst1,*, Stef Kremers2, Isabel Ferreira1, Amika Singh3, Anke Oenema1 and Johannes Brug1

1 Department of Public Health, Erasmus University Medical Center, PO Box 1738, NL-3000 DR Rotterdam, The Netherlands
2 Department of Health Education and Health Promotion, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands
3 Department of Public and Occupational Health and Institute for Research in Extramural Medicine, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

* Correspondence to: K. van der Horst. E-mail: k.vanderhorst{at}erasmusmc.nl

The purpose of this study was to investigate whether perceived parenting practices and parenting style dimensions (strictness and involvement) are associated with adolescents' consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages. In this cross-sectional study, secondary school students (n = 383, mean age 13.5 years) completed a self-administered questionnaire on their consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages, attitude, social influences, self-efficacy, habit strength, food-related parenting practices and the general parenting style dimensions of ‘strictness’ and ‘involvement’. Data were analyzed using multiple linear regression analyses. More restrictive parenting practices were associated with lower consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages (ß = –38.0 ml; 95% CI = –48.1, –28.0). This association was highly mediated (~55%) by attitude, self-efficacy and modeling from parents. Nevertheless, a significant direct effect remained (ß = –17.1 ml; 95% CI = –27.2, –6.90). Interactions between perceived parenting style and parenting practices showed that the association between parenting practices and sugar-sweetened beverage consumption was stronger among adolescents who perceived their parents as being moderately strict and highly involved. Parents influence their children's sugar-sweetened beverage consumption and should therefore be involved in interventions aimed at changing dietary behaviors. Interventions aimed at the promotion of healthy parenting practices will improve when they are tailored to the general parenting style of the participants.

Received on November 9, 2005; accepted on June 28, 2006


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