Musick Kelly, Meier Ann
Cornell University.
J Marriage Fam. 2012 Jun 1;74(3):476-493. doi: 10.1111/j.1741-3737.2012.00973.x.
Adolescents who share meals with their parents score better on a range of well-being indicators. Using three waves of the National Longitudinal Survey of Adolescent Health ( = 17,977), we assessed the causal nature of these associations and the extent to which they persist into adulthood. We examined links between family dinners and adolescent mental health, substance use, and delinquency at wave 1, accounting for detailed measures of the family environment to test whether family meals simply proxy for other family processes. As a more stringent test of causality, we estimated fixed effects models from waves 1 and 2, and we used wave 3 to explore persistence in the influence of family dinners. Associations between family dinners and adolescent well-being remained significant, net of controls, and some held up to stricter tests of causality. Beyond indirect benefits via earlier well-being, however, family dinners associations did not persist into adulthood.
与父母一起用餐的青少年在一系列幸福指标上得分更高。我们利用青少年健康全国纵向调查的三轮数据（样本量 = 17977），评估了这些关联的因果性质以及它们持续到成年期的程度。我们在第一轮调查中研究了家庭聚餐与青少年心理健康、物质使用和犯罪行为之间的联系，并考虑了家庭环境的详细测量指标，以检验家庭聚餐是否只是其他家庭过程的替代指标。作为对因果关系更严格的检验，我们估计了第一轮和第二轮调查的固定效应模型，并利用第三轮调查来探讨家庭聚餐影响的持续性。剔除控制因素后，家庭聚餐与青少年幸福感之间的关联仍然显著，并且一些关联在更严格的因果关系检验中依然成立。然而，除了通过早期幸福感带来的间接益处外，家庭聚餐的关联并没有持续到成年期。
