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Controlling feeding practices and psychopathology in a non-clinical sample of mothers and fathers
journal contribution
posted on 2012-12-18, 13:41 authored by Emma HaycraftEmma Haycraft, Jacqueline BlissettObjective
To explore the relationships between controlling feeding practices and a range of mental health symptoms while considering both parent and child gender.
Method
Mothers and fathers (N = 214) of children aged 18–59 months completed self-report measures of their child feeding practices, eating psychopathology and general mental health symptomology.
Results
Feeding practices did not differ across any of the four parent–child gender dyads. Mothers’ eating psychopathology scores were significantly higher than fathers’ but parents did not significantly differ in the severity of their other mental health symptoms. Associations between disordered eating symptoms and controlling feeding practices were only seen in mothers of daughters and fathers of sons. In general, a range of mental health symptomologies in this non-clinical sample were related to more controlling feeding practices across all four dyads. Psychopathology was most strongly related to controlling feeding practices in parents of girls.
Conclusion
Symptoms of psychopathology may be more likely to associate with controlling feeding practices in parents of daughters due to societal values for slimness in females.
History
School
- Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences
Citation
HAYCRAFT, E. and BLISSET, J., 2008. Controlling feeding practices and psychopathology in a non-clinical sample of mothers and fathers. Eating Behaviors, 9 (4), pp. 484 - 492Publisher
© ElsevierVersion
- AM (Accepted Manuscript)
Publication date
2008Notes
This article was published in the journal, Eating Behaviors [© Elsevier] and the definitive version is available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eatbeh.2008.07.007ISSN
1471-0153Publisher version
Language
- en