School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts, University of California, Merced, CA 95343, USA.
Simple Steps Community Connection, Palo Alto, CA 94303, USA.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2024 Feb 3;21(2):176. doi: 10.3390/ijerph21020176.
This study investigated how broader parental factors including parental happiness, parental play engagement, and parenting stress are related to Korean children's happiness and weight status across three years via indirect pathways through the children's energy-related behaviors of healthy and unhealthy food intake, physical activity, and screen time. Data from 1551 Korean parent pairs and 7-year-old children in the Panel Study on Korean Children were analyzed. A path analysis and gender-based multi-group analysis were conducted. Maternal happiness was negatively related to child screen time. Maternal play engagement showed positive concurrent associations with child healthy food intake and physical activity and negative associations with screen time. Maternal parenting stress was negatively related to child healthy eating. There was one significant finding related to fathers' role on children's energy-related behaviors, happiness, and weight status: the positive association between parental happiness and boys' unhealthy food intake. Child screen time was positively related to child weight status and negatively to child happiness at each age. Broader maternal parenting factors can serve as a protective factor for childhood happiness and weight status in 7-to-9-year-olds through being associated with a reduction in child screen time.
本研究通过儿童健康和不健康的食物摄入、身体活动和屏幕时间等与能量相关的行为的间接途径，调查了包括父母幸福感、父母游戏参与度和育儿压力在内的更广泛的父母因素如何与韩国儿童的幸福感和体重状况相关联，时间跨度为三年。该研究的数据来自韩国儿童小组研究中的 1551 对韩国父母和 7 岁儿童。进行了路径分析和基于性别的多组分析。母亲幸福感与儿童的屏幕时间呈负相关。母亲游戏参与度与儿童的健康食物摄入和身体活动呈正相关，与屏幕时间呈负相关。母亲育儿压力与儿童健康饮食呈负相关。有一个与父亲在儿童能量相关行为、幸福感和体重状况方面的角色有关的重要发现：父母幸福感与男孩的不健康食物摄入呈正相关。儿童的屏幕时间与儿童的体重状况和幸福感呈正相关，与每个年龄段的儿童幸福感呈负相关。更广泛的母亲育儿因素可以通过减少儿童的屏幕时间，成为 7-9 岁儿童幸福感和体重状况的保护因素。
