Keywords
Health behavior in children, Parent and child, Parenting, Self efficacy
Abstract
The issue of childhood obesity has become a pandemic of increasing prevalence and concern. Many behaviors contributing to overweight and obesity, such as dietary intake and physical activity, are learned in childhood. It is known that parents are key agents for change in their children. Therefore, interventions aimed at decreasing childhood overweight and obesity should be targeted at parents. Many parents state that they know the healthy dietary and physical activity behaviors they should adopt for their children, but lack the confidence, or self-efficacy, to enact these behaviors. A review of the literature for self-efficacy for behaviors in these domains in parents, adults and children uncovered many key elements involved. A search for an instrument to measure parental self-efficacy was unsuccessful in locating such an instrument, so several instruments in related domains were analyzed for content and utility for the generation of a new questionnaire. A 34-item questionnaire to measure parental self-efficacy for enacting healthy dietary and physical activity behaviors in their children 6-11 years old was developed and tested with a sample of 146 parents of children 6-11 years old, who could read and write English and had access to a computer with the internet. Internal reliability of the total scale was 0.94 and the two factors, dietary behaviors (DB) and physical activity behaviors (PAB) were 0.93 and 0.94, respectively. Test-retest reliability was also significant (p
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Graduation Date
2010
Semester
Spring
Advisor
Dennis, Karen
Degree
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)
College
College of Nursing
Format
application/pdf
Identifier
CFE0002983
URL
http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/CFE0002983
Language
English
Release Date
May 2010
Length of Campus-only Access
None
Access Status
Doctoral Dissertation (Open Access)
Subjects
Dissertations, Academic -- Nursing, Nursing -- Dissertations, Academic
STARS Citation
Decker, Jonathan W., "A New Measure Of Parental Self-efficacy For Enacting Healthy Lifestyles In Their Children" (2010). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 1523.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/etd/1523
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