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Parents And Parents Essay

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The current longitudinal study shows that there is a correlation between physical health and relationship to parents regardless of gender. However, the results for each hypothesis of this study showed varying results. Hypothesis #1, which predicted that there will be a positive correlation between adolescents in good physical health and the quality of the relationship with their parents regardless of gender, was statistically significant by results of this questionnaire. The results show that there is a correlation between the relationship (closeness) to parents and general health of adolescents. When asked to rate general health and level of closeness to each of their parents, adolescents who rated higher health levels tended to rate a …show more content…

This means that the more parents are involved in deciding who their adolescent children spend time with, the more likely that the adolescent will report having better health. There was also a positive correlation between the curfew variable and ability to select friends, meaning that, adolescents who were able to select their own friends were more likely to also be able to choose their own curfew time by their parents. These results show a significance relating to the hypothesis, there was a positive correlation between the quality of parenting methods and the general health of the adolescents. This shows that positive parental disciplinary techniques where parents balance being actively involved in their adolescent children’s activities and habits while maintaining a level of trust in allowing them to make some decisions on their own may positively affect their children’s general health. These findings are consistent with and relate to a finding by a previous study which found that: “adolescents who perceived that their parents knew their friends, where they went at night, how they spent their money, what they did with their free time, and where they were most afternoons, were less likely to begin to use drugs (Steinberg et al., 1994). Hypothesis #3, which predicted that students performing better academically will report

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