Psychological Distress as a Mediator of the Relation Between Perceived Maternal Parenting and Normative Maladaptive Eating Among Adolescent Girls

Burgeoning research on the adolescent (e.g., middle-school) years suggests that this is a particularly vulnerable period for the development of maladaptive eating patterns. Prior research has established a link between perceptions of maternal parenting practices and adolescent onset of problematic e...

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Published in:Journal of counseling psychology 2007-10, Vol.54 (4), p.434-446
Main Authors: Salafia, Elizabeth H. Blodgett, Gondoli, Dawn M, Corning, Alexandra F, McEnery, Amanda M, Grundy, Amber M
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adolescence
Adolescents
Adult and adolescent clinical studies
Affective Behavior
Behavior modification
Biological and medical sciences
Child development
Child Rearing
Correlation
Counseling Techniques
Distress
Eating behavior
Eating behavior disorders
Eating Disorders
Emotional disorders
Female
Females
Grade 6
Grade 7
Grade 8
Human
Hypotheses
Hypothesis Testing
Internalization
Intervention
Latent Variables
Longitudinal Studies
Medical sciences
Middle School Students
Miscellaneous
Mother Child Relations
Mother-Adolescent interactions
Mother-Daughter relationships
Mothers
Negative Attitudes
Parent Child Relationship
Parental Characteristics
Parenting Style
Parenting Styles
Parents & parenting
Psychological Patterns
Psychology
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychopathology. Psychiatry
Structural Equation Models
Teenagers
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Summary:Burgeoning research on the adolescent (e.g., middle-school) years suggests that this is a particularly vulnerable period for the development of maladaptive eating patterns. Prior research has established a link between perceptions of maternal parenting practices and adolescent onset of problematic eating behaviors. The authors hypothesized that adolescents' internalized psychological distress accounts for this relation, and they tested this hypothesis via a longitudinal, mediational study of 73 adolescent girls followed from 6th to 8th grade. Results of structural equation modeling using latent variables supported the hypothesis, identifying a time-ordered process that emphasizes the significance of the mother-adolescent relationship and the importance of targeting counseling interventions at improving parenting practices and helping adolescents to regulate negative affect as a means of preventing the development of maladaptive eating.
ISSN:0022-0167
1939-2168
DOI:10.1037/0022-0167.54.4.434