Parental Influence on Children’s Health Behaviors: A Bivariate Analysis of the influence of Father and Mother

Objectives: Children’s health behaviour much depends upon the significant efforts made by their parents. This study aimed to determine the impact of parental health behaviour, parental involvement in children’ health, parental education level, parental socioeconomic level on children’ health behaviour. The study also investigated the mean difference of gender diversity between the relationships of parental health behaviour, parental involvement in children’ health, parental education level, parental socioeconomic level and children’ health behaviour. Methods: Primary data was collected from Chinese population and Smart PLS 4 was used to analyze a sample of 2,177 respondents. Results: The study found that parental health behaviour, parental involvement in children’ health, parental education level, parental socioeconomic level are significant antecedent of children’ health behaviour. The study also found a significant mean difference of gender diversity. Conclusion: The findings of this research are novel from both theoretical and practical perspectives as body of knowledge is extended and policy recommendations are advocated.