2021
DOI: 10.1037/cap0000274
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From dieting to delight: Parenting strategies to promote children’s positive body image and healthy relationship with food.

Abstract: Public Significance StatementResearch often focusses on the negative influence parents can have on their children's weight and risk for eating disorders. We review the research on how parents can promote a positive body image and a healthy relationship with food. We describe three major outcomes for children: body acceptance and appreciation, pleasant family mealtime atmosphere, and nutritious dietary intake, and discuss parent practices that foster these outcomes.

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“…Indeed, mothers’ body image dissatisfaction may have been influenced by their perception of their sons for several reasons. Mothers who perceived their daughters to have greater body image dissatisfaction, which is a widespread phenomenon ( Phares et al, 2004 ), may have implicitly or explicitly compensated by putting protective practices in place such as avoiding body-related comments ( Carbonneau et al, 2021 ). These measures may have inadvertently improved mothers’ own body image dissatisfaction over time.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Indeed, mothers’ body image dissatisfaction may have been influenced by their perception of their sons for several reasons. Mothers who perceived their daughters to have greater body image dissatisfaction, which is a widespread phenomenon ( Phares et al, 2004 ), may have implicitly or explicitly compensated by putting protective practices in place such as avoiding body-related comments ( Carbonneau et al, 2021 ). These measures may have inadvertently improved mothers’ own body image dissatisfaction over time.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…For example, significant work continues on food consumption. More recently, marketers have shown interest in understanding body positivity and consumers’ healthy relationships with food (Carbonneau et al , 2021; Grønhøj and Gram, 2020). Interventions designed to help adults who grew up with unhealthy attitudes toward food (i.e.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The present results thus offer a replication of previous findings regarding emotional eating and intuitive eating, as well as add to them by extending the mediation to consider the association between self-compassion and diet quality. A better understanding of the associations between these variables in a sample of mothers is especially valuable given that children observe and imitate how and what their parents eat, as well as how they talk about their bodies (e.g., [13,78]).…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Therefore, more research is needed to examine how a self-compassionate attitude may promote positive, healthful relationships with food and body image. It appears especially valuable to examine such questions among mothers, who often feel the responsibility to model and transmit positive eating and body image attitudes to their children [12,13] while simultaneously grappling with these issues personally (e.g., [14,15]). Thus, expanding the existing research, the present study aims to examine the associations of self-compassion with intuitive eating, emotional eating, and diet quality in a sample of mothers.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%