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The association of parent’s outcome expectations for child TV viewing with parenting practices and child TV viewing: an examination using path analysis

BACKGROUND: Television (TV) viewing has been associated with many undesirable outcomes for children, such as increased risk of obesity, but TV viewing can also have benefits. Although restrictive parenting practices are effective in reducing children’s TV viewing, not all parents use them and it is...

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Autores principales: Johnson, Lauren, Chen, Tzu-An, Hughes, Sheryl O, O’Connor, Teresia M
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4456715/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26013560
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12966-015-0232-2
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author Johnson, Lauren
Chen, Tzu-An
Hughes, Sheryl O
O’Connor, Teresia M
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Chen, Tzu-An
Hughes, Sheryl O
O’Connor, Teresia M
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description BACKGROUND: Television (TV) viewing has been associated with many undesirable outcomes for children, such as increased risk of obesity, but TV viewing can also have benefits. Although restrictive parenting practices are effective in reducing children’s TV viewing, not all parents use them and it is currently unclear why. The current study examined parenting practices related to TV viewing in the context of social- cognitive theory. Specifically, we hypothesized that positive and negative Parental Outcome Expectations for child’s TV Viewing (POETV) would be associated with social co-viewing and restrictive parenting practices, and that POETV and parenting practices influence the amount of TV viewed by child. METHOD: Data were collected from an internet survey of 287 multi-ethnic parents and their 6–12 year old children on participants’ sociodemographic information, parenting practices related to TV use, POETV, and parent and child TV viewing. Path analysis was used to examine the relationship amongst variables in separate models for weekday and weekend TV viewing. controlling for child age, household education, and parental TV viewing. RESULTS: The results provided partial support for the hypotheses, with notable differences between weekday and weekend viewing. The models explained 13.6 % and 23.4 % of the variance in children’s TV viewing on weekdays and weekends respectively. Neither positive nor negative POETV were associated with restrictive TV parenting in either model. One subscale each from positive and negative POETV were associated with social co-viewing parenting on both weekends and weekdays in the expected direction. Restrictive parenting practices were directly negatively associated with children’s TV viewing on weekdays, but not weekends. Social co-viewing parenting was directly positively associated with children’s TV viewing on weekends, but not weekdays. The strongest influence on children’s TV viewing was having a TV in the child’s bedroom. Negative POETV was weakly associated with having a TV in the child’s room. CONCLUSIONS: These findings suggest that POETV and parenting may have a greater impact on weekend TV viewing, when children tend to watch more TV, than weekday. The models suggest that POETV, parenting and especially removing the TV from children’s rooms may be promising targets for interventions.
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spelling pubmed-44567152015-06-06 The association of parent’s outcome expectations for child TV viewing with parenting practices and child TV viewing: an examination using path analysis Johnson, Lauren Chen, Tzu-An Hughes, Sheryl O O’Connor, Teresia M Int J Behav Nutr Phys Act Research BACKGROUND: Television (TV) viewing has been associated with many undesirable outcomes for children, such as increased risk of obesity, but TV viewing can also have benefits. Although restrictive parenting practices are effective in reducing children’s TV viewing, not all parents use them and it is currently unclear why. The current study examined parenting practices related to TV viewing in the context of social- cognitive theory. Specifically, we hypothesized that positive and negative Parental Outcome Expectations for child’s TV Viewing (POETV) would be associated with social co-viewing and restrictive parenting practices, and that POETV and parenting practices influence the amount of TV viewed by child. METHOD: Data were collected from an internet survey of 287 multi-ethnic parents and their 6–12 year old children on participants’ sociodemographic information, parenting practices related to TV use, POETV, and parent and child TV viewing. Path analysis was used to examine the relationship amongst variables in separate models for weekday and weekend TV viewing. controlling for child age, household education, and parental TV viewing. RESULTS: The results provided partial support for the hypotheses, with notable differences between weekday and weekend viewing. The models explained 13.6 % and 23.4 % of the variance in children’s TV viewing on weekdays and weekends respectively. Neither positive nor negative POETV were associated with restrictive TV parenting in either model. One subscale each from positive and negative POETV were associated with social co-viewing parenting on both weekends and weekdays in the expected direction. Restrictive parenting practices were directly negatively associated with children’s TV viewing on weekdays, but not weekends. Social co-viewing parenting was directly positively associated with children’s TV viewing on weekends, but not weekdays. The strongest influence on children’s TV viewing was having a TV in the child’s bedroom. Negative POETV was weakly associated with having a TV in the child’s room. CONCLUSIONS: These findings suggest that POETV and parenting may have a greater impact on weekend TV viewing, when children tend to watch more TV, than weekday. The models suggest that POETV, parenting and especially removing the TV from children’s rooms may be promising targets for interventions. BioMed Central 2015-05-28 /pmc/articles/PMC4456715/ /pubmed/26013560 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12966-015-0232-2 Text en © Johnson et al. 2015 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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O’Connor, Teresia M
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title_full The association of parent’s outcome expectations for child TV viewing with parenting practices and child TV viewing: an examination using path analysis
title_fullStr The association of parent’s outcome expectations for child TV viewing with parenting practices and child TV viewing: an examination using path analysis
title_full_unstemmed The association of parent’s outcome expectations for child TV viewing with parenting practices and child TV viewing: an examination using path analysis
title_short The association of parent’s outcome expectations for child TV viewing with parenting practices and child TV viewing: an examination using path analysis
title_sort association of parent’s outcome expectations for child tv viewing with parenting practices and child tv viewing: an examination using path analysis
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4456715/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26013560
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12966-015-0232-2
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