municipality in which the family lives (1 metropolis, 2 large city, 3 medium sized city, 4 – – – – small sized city, 5 village). – Procedure The data used in this study were collected as a part of a larger project dealing with perception of their health behaviors, social habits, peer relations and school parents’ children’s parents completed the questionnaires either at in their behavior. Adolescents’ parent’s meetings school or in their homes, returning them afterwards in sealed envelopes. Anonymity was child’s ensured in order to obtain honest answers from parents regarding their perception of their behavior. children’s Results Firstly, we explored the parental perception of health behaviors in their children and examined whether it differed for boys and girls. Means and standard deviations for parental ratings are presented in Table 1, as well as the results of one-way analyses of variance comparing these behaviors in boys and girls. [Insert Table 1 about here] According to ratings, insufficient physical activity and unhealthy eating habits parents’ are the most frequent risk behaviors among their children, while parents perceive risky sexual behavior and drug use as the least pronounced problems. This pattern is observed equally among boys and girls. However, significant gender differences are found in certain behaviors – parents rate insufficient physical activity and unhealthy eating habits as more pronounced among girls than among boys (F=11.67, and respectively). p=.01 F=3.72, p=.05,
municipality in which the family lives (1 – metropolis, 2 – large city, 3 – medium sized city, 4 – small sized city, 5 – village). Procedure The data used in this study were collected as a part of a larger project dealing with parents’ perception of their children’s health behaviors, social habits, peer relations and school behavior. Adolescents’ parents completed the questionnaires either at parent’s meetings in their child’s school or in their homes, returning them afterwards in sealed envelopes. Anonymity was ensured in order to obtain honest answers from parents regarding their perception of their children’s behavior. Results Firstly, we explored the parental perception of health behaviors in their children and examined whether it differed for boys and girls. Means and standard deviations for parental ratings are presented in Table 1, as well as the results of one-way analyses of variance comparing these behaviors in boys and girls. [Insert Table 1 about here] According to parents’ ratings, insufficient physical activity and unhealthy eating habits are the most frequent risk behaviors among their children, while parents perceive risky sexual behavior and drug use as the least pronounced problems. This pattern is observed equally among boys and girls. However, significant gender differences are found in certain behaviors – parents rate insufficient physical activity and unhealthy eating habits as more pronounced among girls than among boys (F=11.67, p=.01 and F=3.72, p=.05, respectively).
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