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ArticleJournal of eating disorders2013

Mother-reported parental weight talk and adolescent girls' emotional health, weight control attempts, and disordered eating behaviors.

Katherine W Bauer, Michaela M Bucchianeri, Dianne Neumark-Sztainer

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Article in Journal of eating disorders, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 49 papers.

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3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Katherine W BauerDepartment of Public Health and Center for Obesity Research and Education, Temple University, 1301 Cecil B. Moore Avenue, Ritter Annex 9th Floor, Philadelphia, PA 19122, USA.
Michaela M BucchianeriDivision of Epidemiology and Community Health, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, 1300 S. 2nd Street, WBOB 3rd floor, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA.
Dianne Neumark-SztainerDivision of Epidemiology and Community Health, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, 1300 S. 2nd Street, WBOB 3rd floor, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA.
University of Minnesota · USTemple University · US

Funding

YOUTH DRUG ABUSE, ADHD, AND RELATED DISRUPTIVE DISORDERSM01RR000400 · NCRR · UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA TWIN CITIES · PI BACHANOVA, VERONIKA S · 1985 to 2009
$33.7M
New Moves Obesity Prevention Among Adolescent GirlsR01DK063107 · NIDDK · UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA TWIN CITIES · PI NEUMARK-SZTAINER, DIANNE R · 2005 to 2009
$3.0M
NCRR NIH HHS M01 RR000400NIDDK NIH HHS R01 DK063107
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundThe aim of this paper is to explore the relationships between mothers' report of parental weight talk about her daughter, herself, and others, and adolescent girls' weight-related behaviors and cognitions among a socio-demographically diverse population of mothers and their adolescent daughters.

methodsData were drawn from the baseline assessment of 218 mother/adolescent daughter dyads. Mothers completed survey items regarding the frequency of weight talk by parents, and girls completed survey items assessing outcomes including body dissatisfaction, depressive symptomology, use of extreme weight control methods, and binge eating.

resultsMore frequent comments to daughters about their weight were associated with higher depressive symptomology (p = 0.041), greater prevalence of extreme weight control behaviors (p = 0.040), and greater prevalence of binge eating (p = 0.048) among girls after adjustment for socio-demographic characteristics and girls' standardized body mass index (BMI). For example, among girls whose parents never commented on their weight, 4.2% reported use of any extreme weight control behaviors, while 23.2% of girls whose parents frequently commented on their weight reported use of any of these behaviors. Mothers' more frequent talk about their own weight, shape, or size was associated with lower self-worth (p = 0.007) and higher depressive symptomology (p = 0.004) among girls.

conclusionsFrequent parental weight talk as perceived by mothers was associated with adolescent girls' use of harmful weight control methods and poor psychological health, while no associations were found between weight talk and girls' use of healthful weight control strategies. Interventions that help parents create a family environment that supports healthful activities while reducing weight-related talk may be particularly effective in decreasing the prevalence of harmful outcomes among adolescent girls.

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AdolescentsDisordered eatingParenting

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PMID24999423
PMCPMC4081797
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