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A study published in JAMA Network Open, showed how the relationship with their parents affected the long-term health of young adults or adolescents.
they examined the impact of this relationship on almost all domains of adolescent health, including sexual and mental health, as well as their risk of substance abuse and developing cardiovascular disease.
They assessed that inherently complex parent-adolescent relationships have several limitations. For example, these studies are usually short-term and do not include diverse populations, which limits the generalizability of their results.
Many of these studies also use multiple strategies making it difficult to identify specific characteristics for intervention strategies.
The study involved 20,745 school adolescents who were in grades seven through twelfth in the 1994-1995 academic year. The researchers evaluated adolescent health outcomes through the third decade of life, using data from 15,701 adolescents who completed the 2008-2009 school year.
They analyzed and measured relationships between participants’ self-reported characteristics about their relationship with their fathers and mothers.
The relationship with our parents can influence until we are 30 years old
Based on published research data, the study findings demonstrated The importance of the quality of parental relationships in the health of adolescents in multiple health domains until the third decade of their lives. Furthermore, certain modifiable characteristics of parent-adolescent relationships were associated with consistent patterns.
Consequently, all adolescents who reported loving and caring relationships with their parents, spent more time, and had healthy communication with parents enjoyed overall good health, they were optimistic and enjoyed quality romantic relationships into young adulthood.
These young adults also reported no depressive symptoms, stress, or substance dependence.
Despite variations in measurement strategies, adolescents’ perceptions of their relationship with their parents had lasting impacts on their behaviors and health outcomes.
In particular, parental academic expectations appeared to be inconsistently associated with young adult health outcomes.
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