Monthly Archives: December 2010

The finding that good quality of parenting had an ameliorative effect on adolescents

This study examined a structural model of the associations among food insecurity, poor nutritional status, parental mental health problems, good quality of parenting, adolescents

Effects of covariates. Higher parental education was associated with higher levels of family income (? = .16), and with reduced incidence of poor health status (? = -.04). Higher income-to-poverty ratio was associated with reduced incidence of food insecurity (? … Continue reading →

Data Analytic Procedure The model was tested using a stepwise structural equation model (SEM) based on maximum likelihood estimation with the AMOS 6.0 program (Arbuckle, 2005). A 5-step approach was used. In step 1, the baseline model was used to … Continue reading →

Parental mental health problems. The NSAF data included a scale measuring parental emotional distress that has good psychometric properties (Ehrle and Moore, 1999). The five items that were summed and used in creating the scale asked for example, how often … Continue reading →

Covariates. The following variables were adjusted for: adolescent sex, parental education, family income, and race/ethnicity. Adolescents

Based on the literature reviewed, we examined the following hypotheses. First, we hypothesized that food insecurity would be positively associated with parental mental health problems, poor nutritional status, adolescents

Borrowing from the family stress hypothesis (Conger, et al., 1992; McLoyd, 1990) which suggests that the negative impact of economic adversity on adolescent well-being may be both direct and indirect, we contend that food insecurity can be conceptualized as a … Continue reading →

These four questions attempt to address the experiential and behavioral stages that households go through as food insecurity becomes severe. For example, the first two questions regarding worries about whether food would ran out and the experience of food shortage … Continue reading →

Food insecurity is a multifaceted phenomenon that varies along phases of increasing severity. Each stage is typified by conditions and experiences of food insufficiency, and behavioral responses of household members to these conditions (Bickel et al., 2000). In short, food … Continue reading →