Title
Parental Rule Socialization For Preventive Health And Adolescent Rule Compliance
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2-1-2010
Publication Title
Family Relations: An Interdisciplinary Journal Of Applied Family Studies
Department
Communication Studies
Abstract
This study examined family rules about nutrition, exercise, and sun protection in 164 parent—young adult children dyads. Both parents and their young adult children independently reported on health rules that they perceived throughout their child’s adolescent years and the extent to which the rules were articulated, violations sanctioned, and modeled. Neither child nor parent perceptions of rule-related communication during adolescence predicted current young adult behaviors for any of the 3 health domains. Perceived rule compliance during adolescence was predicted from rule articulation across health domains, whereas patterns for sanctioning and parental modeling varied by health domain. Parents reported higher rule articulation than was perceived by their children across health domains and selectively reported higher scores on both sanctioning and modeling.
Volume
59
Issue
1
pp.
1-13
ISSN
0197-6664
Provider Link
Citation
Bylund, Carma L., Leslie A. Baxter, Rebecca S. Imes, and Bianca M. Wolf. 2010. "Parental rule socialization for preventive health and adolescent rule compliance." Family Relations: An Interdisciplinary Journal Of Applied Family Studies 59(1): 1-13.