The Caregiver Eating Messages Scale: Development and psychometric investigation

Certain caregiver eating messages - restriction of food intake and pressures to eat - are associated with body dissatisfaction and eating disturbances among young girls. This study explored whether these messages are also associated with body attitudes and eating behaviors of young adult women and m...

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Published in:Body image 2010-09, Vol.7 (4), p.317-326
Main Authors: Kroon Van Diest, Ashley M, Tylka, Tracy L
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adolescent
Adult
Body Image
Body Mass Index
Communication
Diet, Reducing - psychology
Energy Intake
Expressed Emotion
Feeding Behavior - psychology
Female
Humans
Intuition
Male
Parenting - psychology
Personal Satisfaction
Personality Inventory - statistics & numerical data
Social Environment
Thinness - psychology
Young Adult
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Summary:Certain caregiver eating messages - restriction of food intake and pressures to eat - are associated with body dissatisfaction and eating disturbances among young girls. This study explored whether these messages are also associated with body attitudes and eating behaviors of young adult women and men. The Caregiver Eating Messages Scale was developed to measure this construct. Two studies (Ns=238, 288) indicated that it contained two factors (restrictive/critical messages and pressure to eat messages) and yielded internally consistent, stable, and valid scores. Both factors were positively related to women's BMI, and restrictive/critical messages were positively related to men's BMI. Restrictive/critical messages predicted lower perceived familial body acceptance and intuitive eating and higher perceived familial pressure to be lean and disordered eating. Restrictive/critical messages predicted participants' body attitudes indirectly via their perceptions of their family's attitude toward their body, with one exception: restrictive/critical messages uniquely predicted men's body appreciation.
ISSN:1740-1445
1873-6807
DOI:10.1016/j.bodyim.2010.06.002