Lau R R, Quadrel M J, Hartman K A
Rutgers University, Institute for Health, Health Care Policy, and Aging Research, New Brunswick, NJ 08903.
J Health Soc Behav. 1990 Sep;31(3):240-59.
A longitudinal data set is employed to explore the sources of stability and change in young adults' health beliefs and behavior concerning drinking, diet, exercise, and wearing seat belts. There is substantial change in the performance of health behaviors during the first three years of college, and peers have a strong impact on the magnitude of that change. In total, however, parents are much more important than peers as sources of influence over these beliefs and behaviors. Of the various social influence processes considered, the direct modeling of behavior appears to be the most important avenue of influence for both parents and peers. These data, along with previous papers in our research program, suggest a pattern of gradually increasing parental influence on their children's health beliefs and behavior while the children are living at home, and the persistence of that influence at least through the college years.
使用一个纵向数据集来探究年轻人在饮酒、饮食、锻炼和系安全带方面的健康观念及行为的稳定性和变化来源。在大学的头三年里，健康行为表现有显著变化，同龄人对这种变化的幅度有很大影响。然而，总体而言，在这些观念和行为的影响源方面，父母比同龄人重要得多。在考虑的各种社会影响过程中，行为的直接示范似乎是父母和同龄人最重要的影响途径。这些数据，连同我们研究项目之前的论文，表明了一种模式：当孩子在家生活时，父母对其健康观念和行为的影响逐渐增加，并且这种影响至少持续到大学时期。
