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ArticleEating behaviors2026

Maternal weight discrimination experiences and restrictive feeding practices are associated with child body dissatisfaction and drive for thinness.

Jordan A Levinson, Jordan E Parker, Jeffrey M Hunger, Elissa Epel, Barbara Laraia, A Janet Tomiyama

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Jordan A LevinsonDepartment of Psychology, University of California Los Angeles, 1285 Franz Hall, Box 951563, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States; Department of Nutrition and Food Sciences, University of Vermont, 109 Carrigan Drive, 254 MLS Carrigan Wing, Burlington, VT, 05405, United States. Electronic address: jordanlevinsona@gmail.com.
Jordan E ParkerDepartment of Psychology, University of California Los Angeles, 1285 Franz Hall, Box 951563, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States.
Jeffrey M HungerDepartment of Psychology, Miami University, 90 N Patterson Avenue, Oxford, OH, 45056, United States.
Elissa EpelDepartment of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of California San Francisco, 675 18th St. San Francisco, CA, 9414, United States.
Barbara LaraiaSchool of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, 2121 Berkeley Way, Berkeley, CA, 94720, United States.
A Janet TomiyamaDepartment of Psychology, University of California Los Angeles, 1285 Franz Hall, Box 951563, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States.

Funding

Early Life Adversity, Cumulative Life Stress, and Cellular Aging in Midlife Women and OffspringRF1AG094985 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI EPEL, ELISSA S., LARAIA, BARBARA A · 2025 to 2025
$3.3M
Food Insecurity, Poor Diet, and Metabolic Syndrome: Cortisol’s Amplifying RoleR01DK128575 · NIDDK · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES · PI TOMIYAMA, A. JANET · 2021 to 2025
$2.0M
Obesity stigma and health behavior: An experimental approachR01HL158555 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES · PI TOMIYAMA, A. JANET · 2021 to 2023
$1.3M
NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL158555NIA NIH HHS RF1 AG094985NIDDK NIH HHS R01 DK128575
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Abstract

Research has established that experiencing weight discrimination is associated with myriad negative consequences, including disordered eating cognitions. However, it has not yet been tested whether a parent's experiences of weight discrimination affect their children's disordered eating cognitions. This paper seeks to establish a relationship between a mother's experiences with weight discrimination and her children's disordered eating cognitions. Using data from the NHLBI Growth and Health Study, we tested whether 193 mothers' weight stigma experiences are associated with their children's (N = 264) body dissatisfaction and drive for thinness, and whether maternal restricted feeding practices is a mechanism through which they are related. We found that maternal weight discrimination experiences are associated with both child body dissatisfaction and child drive for thinness through maternal restrictive feeding practices. In race-stratified models, these same patterns were evident for non-white children but not white children. Overall, these associations were sometimes, but not consistently, robust to the addition of covariates. Our results suggest that maternal experiences of weight discrimination may influence their restrictive feeding patterns, and subsequently their children's disordered eating cognitions.

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Body DissatisfactionBody ImageDriveFeeding and Eating DisordersFeeding BehaviorMother-Child RelationsMothersThinnessWeight PrejudiceAdultChildFemaleHumansMaleBody dissatisfactionDrive for thinnessRestrictive feedingWeight discrimination

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PMID42475783
PMCPMC13460061

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