Child and Adolescent Health Research Unit, The Moray House School of Education, University of Edinburgh, St Leonard's Land, Edinburgh EH8 8AQ, UK.
Health Educ Res. 2012 Feb;27(1):24-35. doi: 10.1093/her/cyr084. Epub 2011 Sep 7.
Family structure is associated with a range of adolescent risk behaviours, with those living in both parent families generally faring best. This study describes the association between family structure and adolescent risk behaviours and assesses the role of the family meal. Data from the 2006 Health Behaviour in School-Aged Children survey were modelled using Multilevel Binomial modelling for six risk behaviour outcomes. Significantly more children from 'both parent' families ate a family meal every day and fewer 'hardly ever or never' did. Family structure was associated with boys' and girls' smoking, drinking, cannabis use and having sex and with girls' fighting. Frequency of eating a family meal was associated with a reduced likelihood of all risk behaviours among girls and all but fighting and having sex among boys. Eating a family meal regularly nullified the association between family structure and drinking alcohol for boys and girls and cannabis use for boys and reduced the effect size of alternative family structures on boys having sex and smoking. The family meal, associated with a reduced likelihood of many adolescent risk behaviours, reduces or eliminates the association with family structure and may therefore help to overcome inequalities in adolescent risk behaviours.
家庭结构与一系列青少年风险行为有关，通常来说，父母双全的家庭中的青少年风险行为最小。本研究描述了家庭结构与青少年风险行为之间的关系，并评估了家庭用餐的作用。使用多级二项式模型对 2006 年“儿童在校健康行为”调查的数据进行建模，共涉及六个风险行为结果。“双亲”家庭的孩子每天更有可能一起用餐，而“几乎从不”或“从不”一起用餐的孩子则较少。家庭结构与男孩和女孩的吸烟、饮酒、吸食大麻和发生性行为有关，也与女孩的打架行为有关。家庭用餐频率与女孩所有风险行为以及男孩除打架和发生性行为之外的所有风险行为的可能性降低有关。经常一起用餐可以减少男孩和女孩饮酒、男孩吸食大麻与家庭结构之间的关联，并降低其他家庭结构对男孩发生性行为和吸烟的影响程度。家庭用餐与许多青少年风险行为的可能性降低有关，它减少或消除了与家庭结构的关联，因此可能有助于克服青少年风险行为方面的不平等。
