Parental Education and Adolescent Self-Reported Physical Health

Citation

Wickrama, Kandauda A. S.; Conger, Rand D.; Lorenz, Frederick O.; & Elder, Glen H., Jr. (1998). Parental Education and Adolescent Self-Reported Physical Health. Journal of Marriage and the Family, 60(4), 967-978.

Abstract

Applying latent growth curve analysis to a sample of 350 adolescents, this study demonstrates that parents' education is linked to changes in adolescent self-reported physical health through the level of and changes in parental rejection. In addition, parents' education had a significant direct effect on subsequent changes in adolescents' self-reported health status. The results provide evidence for the influence of parents' education on changes in the self-reported physical health of adolescents, both directly and indirectly through parental rejection. However, parents' education is not associated with the initial level of adolescent self-reported physical health. Confidence in the findings is strengthened by employing a prospective, longitudinal research design; by analyzing intraindividual changes in parental rejection and adolescent health; and by using multi-informant reports of parental rejection.

URL

http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/353638

Reference Type

Journal Article

Year Published

1998

Journal Title

Journal of Marriage and the Family

Author(s)

Wickrama, Kandauda A. S.
Conger, Rand D.
Lorenz, Frederick O.
Elder, Glen H., Jr.