Parent-daughter relationships and disordered eating among emerging adult women from the Czech Republic

Autor	ALMENARA Carlos Arturo UMEMURA Tomotaka MACEK Petr
Organisation	Fakulta sociálních studií Masarykovy univerzity
Year	2016
Research type	paper in Journal
Annotation	The associations between parent-daughter relationship characteristics and disordered eating behaviours among emerging adult women from the Czech Republic were examined. Participants (N = 798 women, M = 22.25 years old, SD = 1.42) reported disordered eating behaviours (dieting and unhealthy weight-control behaviours; UWCB), their relationship characteristics with each parent (trust, communication, alienation and psychological control) and covariates (weight, height, frequency of communication with parents, living status and parental statuses). Overall, 41% of women were on a diet, and 33% engaged in at least one UWCB. Logistic regression analyses revealed that none of the parent-daughter relationship characteristics had any association with dieting. However, a low quality of mother-daughter relationship (low trust, high alienation and psychological control) had a significant association with UWCB. None of the father-daughter relationship characteristics had a significant association with UWCB. The results suggest that preventive interventions with the family should emphasize the quality of the mother-daughter relationship.
Keywords	attachment; disordered eating; emerging adulthood; parent-child relations; weight control
Research type	unrepeated research, quantitative
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Obor	AN Psychology
Email	macek@fss.muni.cz
Availability	available after payment
Link	http://dx.doi.org/10.21909/sp.2016.03.718
Research location	Ne, po zaplacení
Organisation	Fakulta sociálních studií Masarykovy univerzity
Organisation web	fss.muni.cz
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