ArticleEating and weight disorders : EWD2017
"Don't eat so much:" how parent comments relate to female weight satisfaction.
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- Parent-Related Normative Perceptions of Adolescents and Later Weight Control Behavior: Longitudinal Analysis of Cohort Data From Brazil.The Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine · 2020Article
- Cumulative Encouragement to Diet From Adolescence to Adulthood: Longitudinal Associations With Health, Psychosocial Well-Being, and Romantic Relationships.The Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine · 2019Article
- Effect of parental criticism on disordered eating behaviors in male and female university students in Mexico City.Eating and weight disorders : EWD · 2019Article
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- Parent-child health- and weight-focused conversations: Who is saying what and to whom?Appetite · 2018Article
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- Parental perception of child weight and inflammation: Perceived overweight is associated with higher child c-reactive protein.Biological psychology · 2017Article
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Abstract
purposeHow will the words of a parent influence the adult weight of their daughter? This retrospective study evaluates how the recalled comments of parents made about the weight or eating habits of a daughter related to her adult BMI and satisfaction with her weight.
methodA nationwide cross-sectional survey was conducted with 501 young women ranging in age from 20 to 35 (age 26.8, SD 3.1; BMI 25.96, SD 6.2), who were asked to indicate their weight satisfaction, eating habits, and BMI along with their recall of the extent to which they recalled their parents making weight-related or eating-related comments about them as a young girl. Linear regression analyses were run to examine the relationship between parental comments and women's weight satisfaction and BMI.
resultsA woman's dissatisfaction with her adult weight was only related to the extent she remembered her parents making any comments about her weight (p < 0.01), but not about how much she ate (p < 0.05)-even though both were positively related to her BMI (p < 0.001 and p < 0.01). Even among normal-weight young women with similar weights, those who recalled their parents commenting about their weight were more dissatisfied with their body weight (p < 0.01). DISCUSSION: In this retrospective study, a parent's comments about her childhood weight were related to her weight and body dissatisfaction as an adult. In contrast, comments about her eating habits were not significantly related to weight dissatisfaction.
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