We advance health lifestyle research by developing the concept of agentic recombination to capture how individuals uniquely combine health behaviors to form adult health lifestyles. Using data from the 2005 to 2019 Transition to Adulthood Supplement of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, we examine intergenerational transmission of health behaviors, directionality of health behaviors, and health lifestyles. We find significant parent/adult child correspondence in individual health behaviors and directionality of health-beneficial behaviors. However, associations between parent and adult child health lifestyles are comparatively more complex and uncertain. Our findings support theoretical consideration of what we term “agentic recombination”: the structurally informed way that individuals uniquely combine health behaviors to form their overall health lifestyle. Findings extend knowledge on how changing social structural positions shape eventual adulthood health behaviors and provide novel evidence of the intergenerational link between not only health behaviors but also combinations of such behaviors into health lifestyles.

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健康行为的代理重组到成人健康生活方式


我们通过开发代理重组的概念来推进健康生活方式研究，以捕捉个体如何独特地结合健康行为以形成成人健康生活方式。使用 2005 年至 2019 年收入动态面板研究的过渡到成年补充的数据，我们研究了健康行为的代际传递、健康行为的方向性和健康生活方式。我们发现在个体健康行为和有益健康的行为的方向性方面存在显着的亲子/成年子女对应关系。然而，父母和成年儿童健康生活方式之间的关联相对更为复杂和不确定。我们的研究结果支持对我们所说的“代理重组”的理论思考：个体以独特的方式将健康行为结合以形成其整体健康生活方式的结构知情方式。研究结果扩展了关于不断变化的社会结构地位如何塑造最终成年健康行为的知识，并为健康行为以及此类行为与健康生活方式的组合之间的代际联系提供了新的证据。