Typologies of Joint Family Activities and Associations With Mental Health and Wellbeing Among Adolescents From Four Countries
Parker K. Hallingberg B. Eriksson C. Ng K. Hamrik Z. Kopcakova J. Movsesyan E. Melkumova M. Abdrakhmanova S. Badura P.
July 2022Elsevier Inc.
Journal of Adolescent Health
2022#71Issue 155 - 62 pp.
Purpose: This study aims to identify distinct typologies of joint family activities and the associations with mental health and wellbeing among adolescents across four countries from the World Health Organization European region. Methods: The 2017/2018 data from adolescents from Armenia (n = 3,977, Mage = 13.5 ± 1.6 years, 53.4% female), Czechia (n = 10,656, Mage = 13.4 ± 1.7, 50.1% female), Russia (n = 4,096, Mage = 13.8 ± 1.7, 52.4% female), and Slovakia (n = 3,282, Mage = 13.4 ± 1.5, 51.0% female) were collected in schools. The respondents self-reported their participation in joint family leisure-time activities, life satisfaction, psychological and somatic complaints, as well as a range of demographic and family situational factors. Stratified by countries, latent class analysis identified typologies of joint family activities, and logistic regression models explored cross-sectional associations with life satisfaction, and psychological and somatic complaints. Results: Three typologies were identified across each of the four countries, distinguished by low, moderate, and high levels of family engagement. Adolescents with higher family engagement generally reported greater life satisfaction and fewer psychological complaints compared to those with lower family engagement. Russian adolescents in the high family engagement typology reported fewer somatic complaints compared to those with low family engagement. In addition, adolescents from Czechia and Russia showing moderate family engagement also reported fewer psychological complaints compared to those in the low family engagement typology. Discussion: Our findings from four countries suggest that adolescents with high family engagement have greater life satisfaction and fewer psychological complaints, pointing toward a need for interventions to support family engagement among adolescents. Further research is needed to fully explore underlying mechanisms.
Family , Global survey , Leisure time , Mental health , Organized activities , Youth
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Institute for Physical Activity and Nutrition (IPAN), School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences, Deakin University, Geelong, Australia
Cardiff School of Sport and Health Sciences, Cardiff Metropolitan University, Cardiff, United Kingdom
Department of Public Health Sciences, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
School of Educational Sciences and Psychology, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland
Physical Activity for Health Research Cluster, Department of Physical Education and Sport Sciences, University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland
Department of Recreation and Leisure Studies, Faculty of Physical Culture, Palacký University Olomouc, Olomouc, Czech Republic
Department of Health Psychology and Research Methodology, Faculty of Medicine, P. J. Safarik University, Kosice, Slovakia
Arabkir Medical Centre, Institute of Child and Adolescent Health, Yerevan, Armenia
National Center of Public Health of the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Almaty, Kazakhstan
Institute for Physical Activity and Nutrition (IPAN)
Cardiff School of Sport and Health Sciences
Department of Public Health Sciences
School of Educational Sciences and Psychology
Physical Activity for Health Research Cluster
Department of Recreation and Leisure Studies
Department of Health Psychology and Research Methodology
Arabkir Medical Centre
National Center of Public Health of the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Kazakhstan
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