title: Parental sedentary restriction, maternal parenting style, and television viewing among 10- to 11-year-olds.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To examine whether parenting styles or practices were associated with children's television (TV) viewing.
  
  
  METHODS
  A total of 431 parent-child dyads (10- to 11-year-old children) from Bristol, United Kingdom, were included. Child and parent TV viewing were self-reported and categorized as <2, 2 to 4, or >4 hours/day. Children reported maternal parenting style (authoritarian, authoritative, or permissive). Child-reported maternal and paternal sedentary restriction scores were combined to create a family-level restriction score. Multinomial logistic regression was used to examine whether child TV viewing was predicted by parenting style or family restriction.
  
  
  RESULTS
  A greater proportion of children with permissive mothers watched >4 hours of TV per day, compared with children with authoritarian or authoritative mothers (P = .033). A greater proportion of children for whom both parents demonstrated high restriction watched <2 hours of TV per day (P < .001). The risk of watching 2 to 4 hours (vs <2 hours) of TV per day was 2.2 times higher for children from low-restriction families (P = .010). The risk of watching >4 hours (vs <2 hours) of TV per day was 3.3 times higher for children from low-restriction families (P = .013). The risk of watching >4 hours of TV per day was 5.2 times higher for children with permissive (versus authoritative) mothers (P = .010).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Clinicians need to talk directly with parents about the need to place limitations on children's screen time and to encourage both parents to reinforce restriction messages.
authors.affiliation: Centre for Exercise, Nutrition, and Health Sciences, School for Policy Studies, University of Bristol, 8 Priory Rd, Bristol BS8 1TZ, United Kingdom. russ.jago@bris.ac.uk
authors.forename: Russell
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Jago
authors.forename: Kirsten K
authors.initials: KK
authors.lastname: Davison
authors.forename: Janice L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Thompson
authors.forename: Angie S
authors.initials: AS
authors.lastname: Page
authors.forename: Rowan
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Brockman
authors.forename: Kenneth R
authors.initials: KR
authors.lastname: Fox
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D002652:Child Behavior; D005260:Female; D015438:Health Behavior; D006801:Humans; D007899:Leisure Activities; D016015:Logistic Models; D008297:Male; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D016487:Parenting; D013690:Television / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*