Positive parenting improves multiple aspects of health and well-being in young adulthood.

ABSTRACT: Aspects of positive parenting have previously been linked to better offspring health and well-being^1,2, though often, individual outcomes have been examined separately. Examining multiple outcomes simultaneously, over multiple aspects of parenting, may provide a more holistic picture of the parenting-health dynamics^3,4. Methodological limitations such as reverse causation-good childhood outcomes that make parenting easier-also remain a concern in many previous observational studies⁵. Here we examined the associations between multiple aspects of parenting (including parent-child relationship satisfaction concerning love, parental authoritativeness and family dinner frequency) and various subsequent offspring psychosocial, mental, behavioural and physical hea

SUBMITTER: Chen Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6625866 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature