FNF 100 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Overeating

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Family Studies
• Course: FNF 100
• Professor: Dan Mahoney

Document Summary

Week 4: social relationships and health behavior across the life course. Range of personal actions that influence health, disability and mortality. Social ties are reflected in measures of social integration and social networks. Their considered in terms of structure and content. Social networks; structural linkages between a focal individual and others in his/her network. Stress; the challenges and difficulties that may inhere in relationships. Health behaviours change over time (habits from childhood, and others initiated in adolescence) Parents shape diet and exercise habits which contribute to obesity. Parents new romantics causes troubled children; drinking, drugs. Risky behaviour amongst adolescents because of more decision making. Peers have a stronger influence; biggest predictor for adolescent behaviour. Lower mortality rates for the married=better health habits; less drug use, drinking. Married weight more and exercise less then the unmarried. Having an obese friend increases the risk of weight gain for yourself. The more bonded the child is to schools, the less substance abuse.