Family social environment in childhood and self-rated health in young adulthood

Christelle Roustit (), Eric Campoy (), Emilie Renahy (), Gary King (), Isabelle Parizot () and Pierre Chauvin ()
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Christelle Roustit: DS3 - ESIM - Déterminants Sociaux de la Santé et du Recours aux Soins - UPMC - Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 - INSERM - Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale
Emilie Renahy: Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health [Montréal] - McGill University = Université McGill [Montréal, Canada]
Gary King: Department of Biobehavioral Health - Penn State - Pennsylvania State University - Penn State System
Isabelle Parizot: CMH - Centre Maurice Halbwachs - EHESS - École des hautes études en sciences sociales - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - Département de Sciences sociales ENS-PSL - ENS-PSL - École normale supérieure - Paris - PSL - Université Paris Sciences et Lettres
Pierre Chauvin: DS3 - ESIM - Déterminants Sociaux de la Santé et du Recours aux Soins - UPMC - Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 - INSERM - Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, CHU Saint-Antoine [AP-HP] - AP-HP - Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) - SU - Sorbonne Université

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Abstract: BACKGROUND: Family social support, as a form of social capital, contributes to social health disparities at different age of life. In a life-course epidemiological perspective, the aims of our study were to examine the association between self-reported family social environment during childhood and self-reported health in young adulthood and to assess the role of family functioning during childhood as a potential mediating factor in explaining the association between family breakup in childhood and self-reported health in young adulthood. METHODS: We analyzed data from the first wave of the Health, Inequalities and Social Ruptures Survey (SIRS), a longitudinal health and socio-epidemiological survey of a random sample of 3000 households initiated in the Paris metropolitan area in 2005. Sample-weighted logistic regression analyses were performed to determine the association between the quality of family social environment in childhood and self-rated health (overall health, physical health and psychological well-being) in young adults (n = 1006). We used structural equation model to explore the mediating role of the quality of family functioning in childhood in the association between family breakup in childhood and self-rated health in young adulthood. RESULTS: The multivariate results support an association between a negative family social environment in childhood and poor self-perceived health in adulthood. The association found between parental separation or divorce in childhood and poor self-perceived health in adulthood was mediated by parent-child relationships and by having witnessed interparental violence during childhood. CONCLUSION: These results argue for interventions that enhance family cohesion, particularly after family disruptions during childhood, to promote health in young adulthood.

Keywords: Family social environment; childhood; selfrated health; young adulthood (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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Published in BMC Public Health, 2011, 11 (1), pp.949. ⟨10.1186/1471-2458-11-949⟩

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DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-11-949

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