Parental involvement, health behaviour and mental health among school-going adolescents in seven Pacific Island countries

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dc.date.accessioned 2018-09-27 en
dc.date.accessioned 2022-08-17T14:05:11Z
dc.date.available 2022-08-17T14:05:11Z
dc.date.issued 2018-09-27 en
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11910/12704
dc.description.abstract The study aimed to estimate the relationship between parental involvement, health behaviour and mental health among school-going adolescents in seven Pacific Island countries. Data utilized were from the cross-sectional 'Global School-Based Student Health Survey (GSHS)'. The total sample included 10968 adolescents (mean age 14.1 years, SD = 1.4) from Cook Islands, Kiribati, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu and Vanuatu in 2011 to 2013. In two-level, mixed-effects logistic regression analyses, adjusted for age, sex, a proxy for socioeconomic status, and support by peers, greater parental involvement was inversely associated with smoking, drunkenness and cannabis use, bullying victimization, in physical fight, injury and school truancy, and anxiety and having no close friends, and positively correlated with fruit and vegetable consumption and physical activity. Interventions for improving well-being among this adolescent population should consider the positive impact of parental involvement. en
dc.format.medium Print en
dc.subject PARENTAL GUIDANCE en
dc.subject MENTAL HEALTH en
dc.subject ADOLESCENTS en
dc.subject PACIFIC ISLANDS en
dc.title Parental involvement, health behaviour and mental health among school-going adolescents in seven Pacific Island countries en
dc.type Journal Article en
dc.ProjectNumber N/A en
dc.Volume 28(8) en
dc.BudgetYear 2018/19 en
dc.ResearchGroup HIV/AIDS, STIs and TB en
dc.SourceTitle Journal of Human Behavior in the Social Environment en
dc.ArchiveNumber 10553 en
dc.PageNumber 1068-1077 en
dc.outputnumber 9544 en
dc.bibliographictitle Pengpid, S. & Peltzer, K. (2018) Parental involvement, health behaviour and mental health among school-going adolescents in seven Pacific Island countries. Journal of Human Behavior in the Social Environment. 28(8):1068-1077. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11910/12704 en
dc.publicationyear 2018 en
dc.contributor.author1 Pengpid, S. en
dc.contributor.author2 Peltzer, K. en


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