Abstract
This study explored the spillover and crossover associations between satisfaction with food-related life and life satisfaction in mothers, fathers and adolescent children in dual-earned families. This is a cross-sectional design study with mothers, fathers and children surveyed in Temuco, Chile. The participants were 303 dual-earner parents and their adolescent children (mean age 13.3 years, 51.5% female). Actor-partner Interdependence Model (APIM) and structural equation modeling were used to explore spillover (actor effect) and crossover (partner effect) associations among family members. As a result, fathers' satisfaction with food-related life was positively associated with their own life satisfaction (p ≤ 0.01), as well as with their partner's (mother's) satisfaction with life (p ≤ 0.05), but not with their adolescent child's life satisfaction (p > 0.1). Mothers and children presented positive spillovers between their own levels of satisfaction with food-related life and life satisfaction (p ≤ 0.01). No crossover effects were found between mothers and children (p > 0.1). This study results underscore the positive association between satisfaction with food-related life and life satisfaction among members of dual-earner families with adolescent children. Special efforts should be made by dual-earner parents to improve the variables related to their satisfaction with food-related life as well as their children's satisfaction.
Highlights
Subjective well-being designates the psychosocial aspects of quality of life and consists of positive and negative effects and cognitive assessment of satisfaction with life 1
The model that assessed the Actor-partner Interdependence Model (APIM) association between the three family members’ satisfaction with food-related life and their levels of satisfaction with life had fit indices showing a good fit with the data (CFI = 0.994, Tucker-Lewis index (TLI) = 0.994, root mean square error of approximation (RMSEA) = 0.013)
Non-significant correlations were found between satisfaction with food-related life of mothers and children (r = -0.036, p = 0.586) as well as between the residual errors of both family members’ life satisfaction (r = 0.096, p = 0.188)
Summary
Subjective well-being designates the psychosocial aspects of quality of life and consists of positive and negative effects and cognitive assessment of satisfaction with life 1. Satisfaction with life includes assessing what individuals do with their lives as a whole and in different life domains such as work, family or food Studies related to this issue seek to promote well-being and life satisfaction by identifying the variables related to them 2. While most studies based on the SCM have focused on the crossover of negative experiences 32, few studies have assessed crossover of positive experiences, such as life satisfaction 33, happiness 34 and family support 27. To the best of our knowledge, there are no studies examining the relationships between satisfaction with food-related life and satisfaction with life using a triadic approach on the interdependencies between both parents and their children in dual-earner families. This study aims to explore the spillover and crossover associations between satisfaction with food-related life and life satisfaction in mothers, fathers and adolescent children in dual-earner families. We hypothesized that family members who reported higher satisfaction with food-related life would likely present higher life satisfaction (positive spillovers), while the individual’s satisfaction with food-related life would be associated with the other family members’ higher life satisfaction (positive crossovers)
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