Factors affecting parent health-promotion behavior in early childhood according to family cohesion: Focusing on the COVID-19 pandemic.
Song I Park, In Young Cho
PMID 34507852WHAT IT FOUND
Parents with higher family cohesion reported more health-promoting behavior.
Parents' psychological resources were linked to more health-promoting behavior in both cohesion groups. This study did not test an intervention.
Key findings
01Parents in the high family cohesion group reported higher health-promotion behavior scores than parents in the low group (104.70 vs 98.72).
02Positive psychological capital was associated with higher health-promotion behavior in both the high and low family cohesion groups (r = 0.24 and r = 0.23).
03In regression models, family cohesion was a significant factor only in the high cohesion group; positive psychological capital, parent gender, and stress were significant factors in both groups.
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What it does not show
Self-report online survey, so responses may be biased and actual child health outcomes were not measured. Cross-sectional design cannot show that family cohesion or psychological resources caused better health-promotion behavior. All parents were from South Korea, so results may not apply to other cultures or family structures. Not all mother-father pairs from the same household completed the survey, so parent gender findings may be uneven. The regression models explained 22.0% and 19.0% of variation in health-promotion behavior.
Declared interests
No specific funding was reported, and the authors declared no conflicts of interest.
The easy way to misread this
Do not read the higher scores as proof that family cohesion or psychological resources cause better parent health-promotion behavior. The study was a single-time self-report survey and did not test any program.