Chronic stress and adiposity in youth-parent dyads: An actor-partner interdependence analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Obesity is one of the most prominent health issues in modern society. Although previous research has identified chronic psychological stress as a risk factor for obesity, much of this research only examined how an individual's own stress affects their adiposity. The current study utilized an actor-partner interdependence model to examine the unique associations of youths' and parents' chronic stress with both their own and each other's adiposity.

Method

Five hundred sixty-nine dyads of youths (48.7% females, 49.9% Whites, M_age = 13.70 years) and one of their parents (82.6% females, 58.2% Whites, M_age = 45.38 years) participated in a cross-sectional lab study, where both youths and parents completed interviews and anthropometric m

SUBMITTER: Jiang T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11919789 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature