Sentences with phrase «reported parental encouragement»

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Thus, this paper aims to longitudinally examine the relationship between adolescent - reported parent - specific encouragement to be physically active and parental concern about staying fit, and adolescents» physical activity and sedentary behavior habits five years later.

Wim Meeus and several colleagues report that parental influence on adolescent offending is strongest when an adolescent has no intimate partners; parental support did not influence delinquency for youth who consistently had a romantic partner over the course of the six - year study.88 In another recent study of serious adolescent offenders, girls who self - reported delinquent behavior were more likely to be strongly encouraged in that behavior by their current romantic partner.89 Interestingly, the association between partner encouragement and self - reported offending was strongest among youth reporting warm relationships with their opposite - sex parent.