Cultivation and Enabling Effects of Social Support and Self-Efficacy in Parent-Child Dyads.

ABSTRACT:

Background

There are two alternative mechanisms, elucidating the reciprocal relationship between self-efficacy and social support when explaining health outcomes: self-efficacy beliefs may operate as the establisher of social support (the cultivation model) or social support may enable the formation of self-efficacy beliefs (the enabling model).

Purpose

In line with the cultivation hypothesis, it was tested if self-efficacy (measured in parents and children) would indirectly predict parental and child moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA), via the mediator, social support (parent-provided, child-received). In line with the enabling hypothesis, it was tested if social support would predict MVPA indirectly, via the mediator, self-efficacy.

Methods

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SUBMITTER: Banik A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8601043 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature