The relationship between parental locus of control and adolescent obesity: a longitudinal pre-birth cohort.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To investigate whether parental external locus of control (ELOC) measured in pregnancy is related to obesity in their adolescent offspring and whether the child's own ELOC measured at age 8 contributes. To determine whether associations are due to types of behaviour used by externally oriented participants.

Subjects/methods

Longitudinal pre-birth cohort study (Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents & Children (ALSPAC)) set in south-west England. Families whose adolescent offspring had their fat mass measured using DXA scans at any of ages 9, 11, 13, 15 or 17 (range, n = 7329 at 9 to n = 4850 at 17). The primary outcome measures were mean fat mass, and obesity measured as ≥85th centile of fat mass at each age.

Results

We found that parent and child externality w

SUBMITTER: Golding J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6215477 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature