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What Mediates The Relationship Between Family Meals And Adolescent Health Issues?, Ruth Striegel Weissman
What Mediates The Relationship Between Family Meals And Adolescent Health Issues?, Ruth Striegel Weissman
Ruth Striegel Weissman
Objective: To determine whether the frequency of family meals in childhood is associated with positive health outcomes in adolescence through the mediating links of increased family cohesion and positive coping skills.Design : Data were obtained from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Growth and Health Study (NGHS), a 10-year longitudinal study of 2,379 black and white girls assessed annually from ages 9–19. The mediational analysis framework of H. C. Kraemer and colleagues (2001) was used to test the hypothesis that the frequency of family meals in childhood (Study Years 1 and 3) would be related to health outcomes (Study Year 10) …