'Changing Roles' to 'Stabilize the Family': Young Adults’ Attempts at Improving their Parents’ Health

• In Event: Parent-Child Communication about Health

Abstract

This study examines the compliance-gaining strategies utilized by young adults to get their parents to undertake more healthy behaviors based on the perceived health needs of parents. The results of this study suggest that children attempt to influence their parents through a variety of both direct and indirect strategies. As a result of these strategies, young adults are able to successfully elicit positive responses from their parents, thereby influencing their parents to enact healthy behaviors.

Author

• Kenneth Sibal, Ohio University