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Unintentional role models: links between maternal eating psychopathology and the modelling of eating behaviours

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posted on 2013-02-08, 12:27 authored by Zoe Palfreyman, Emma HaycraftEmma Haycraft, Caroline Meyer
This study explored the relationships between maternal modelling of eating behaviours with reported symptoms of maternal eating psychopathology, anxiety and depression. Mothers (N= 264) with a child aged 1.5 to 8 years completed three self-report measures designed to assess modelling of eating behaviours, eating psychopathology and levels of anxiety and depression. The study found that higher levels of maternal eating psychopathology were positively associated with eating behaviours that were unintentionally modelled by mothers but that maternal eating psychopathology was not associated with more overt/intentional forms of parental modelling. In addition, higher levels of maternal depression were associated with lower levels of both unintentional and intentional forms of maternal modelling, whereas maternal anxiety was not found to correlate with modelling behaviours. This study highlights the possible detrimental influences of maternal mental health in relation to mothers providing their child with a positive parental role model around eating and feeding.

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  • Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences

Citation

PALFREYMAN, Z., HAYCRAFT, E. and MEYER, C., 2013. Unintentional role models: links between maternal eating psychopathology and the modelling of eating behaviours. European Eating Disorders Review, DOI: 10.1002/erv.2219

Publisher

© John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. and Eating Disorders Association

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  • AM (Accepted Manuscript)

Publication date

2013

Notes

Closed Access. This article was published in the journal, Eating Disorders Review [© John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. and Eating Disorders Association] and the definitive version is available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/erv.2219

ISSN

1072-4133

eISSN

1099-0968

Language

  • en

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