Gender Differences Among Adolescents in Family, and Peer Influences on Body Dissatisfaction, Weight Loss, and Binge Eating Behaviors

Vincent, Maureen A.; McCabe, Marita

doi:10.1023/a:1005156616173

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“…It may be difficult or impossible for youths to view these more negative parental tactics as well-meant or helpful even when they generally view their parents as warm and accepting. These findings are consistent with prior research that parental restriction of diet (HaworthHoeppner 2004;Brown and Ogden 2004) and commenting (Keel et al 1997) or teasing about adolescents' weight (Schwartz et al 1999), have been associated with a variety of negative mental and physical health outcomes, including body dissatisfaction, increased risk of eating disorders, and decreased ability to regulate caloric intake (Vincent and McCabe 1999). Thus, our findings suggest that older adolescents' perceptions of the overall quality of their relationship with their parents matter, but only when parents use more positive types of influence.…”

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Adolescents’ Response to Parental Efforts to Influence Eating Habits: When Parental Warmth Matters

Lessard

Greenberger

Chen

2008

J Youth Adolescence

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Adolescents’ Response to Parental Efforts to Influence Eating Habits: When Parental Warmth Matters

Lessard

Greenberger

Chen

2008

J Youth Adolescence

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“…It is shown that positive messages from mothers could reduce the effects of negative social messages regarding eating disorder behaviors (27). Most of studies focused on how mothers contribute to the developing disturbed eating attitudes in their daughters.…”

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“…Some studies showed no relationship between familial environment and eating attitudes in male adolescents. But a few studies demonstrated these relationships (27).…”

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Eating Disorders among Iranian Male Adolescents

Garrusi

Baneshi

Pakgohar

2016

Iran J Psychiatry Behav Sci

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Objectives: Eating disorders are important health issues of body image disturbances. These disorders are not limited to Western countries or females. The current study aimed to investigate the prevalence of eating disorders among Iranian male adolescents and the associated factors. Materials and Methods: This cross-sectional survey was conducted on 433 male high school students. The study assessed the effects of demographic characteristics, social pressures from family and friends, self-esteem, body satisfaction and media on eating disorders. Results are presented in terms of odds ratio (OR) and confidence interval (CI). P-values less than 0.05 were considered as statistically significant. Results: About 15% of male adolescents had eating disorders. There were significant differences between the two groups (with and without eating disorders) in terms of social pressure, body dissatisfaction and body mass index (BMI). Body dissatisfaction (OR = 1.23, 95% CI: 1.01-1.50) and BMI (OR = 1.14, 95% CI: 1.06-1.21) were identified as predictive factors in eating disorders. Conclusions:The results indicated the need for more attention to eating disorders and predictive factors in Iranian adolescents as an example of Asian cultures.

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“…These results provide some evidence for the gender-linked transmission model, which posits that fathers exert greater influence on sons and mothers exert greater influence on daughters . Earlier research that suggests that increased paternal commentary is associated with increased weight dissatisfaction among adolescent girls (Keel et al 1997), and more recent research that suggests that maternal commentary is associated with increased weight and body dissatisfaction among adolescent boys (Vincent and McCabe 2000;Stanford and McCabe 2005), are inconsistent with this model.…”

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Factors Influencing Body Image During Adolescence

Ata

Rojas²,

Ludden³

et al. 2011

Handbook of Behavior, Food and Nutrition

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Abbreviations BMI Body mass index SEM Structural equation modeling SES Socioeconomic status IntroductionOver the years, research has implicated a number of developmental (e.g., pubertal timing), psychological (e.g., self-esteem), and sociocultural (e.g., culturally-defined and transmitted messages regarding attractiveness) factors in the development and maintenance of body image disturbance and related issues in adolescents. In this chapter, we will focus exclusively on sociocultural factors that affect adolescent body image, using the Tripartite Influence Model of body image and eating disturbance as our conceptual framework. We will begin by providing some background information on body image and body image disturbance, and offer an explanation as to why adolescents may be particularly vulnerable to the latter. Then, we will explicate the role of the media in transmitting messages to adolescents regarding culturally defined and encouraged images of attractiveness that suggest that females have thin bodies and males have lean, muscular bodies. Next, we will discuss the direct and indirect influences of parents and peers, including appearance-related teasing and criticism and modeling of eating-and weight-related behaviors, which may serve to reinforce mediatransmitted messages. Finally, we will highlight the role of cultural factors such as acculturation and the connection between body image disturbance and other areas of health. Body Image and Body Image DisturbanceDefining body image is so "tricky" that Thompson et al. (1999) pointed out the existence of 16 different terms used interchangeably by researchers and clinicians (Table 201.1). The common consensus, however, is that body image is a complex, multidimensional construct

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Gender Differences Among Adolescents in Family, and Peer Influences on Body Dissatisfaction, Weight Loss, and Binge Eating Behaviors

Cited by 235 publications

References 39 publications

Adolescents’ Response to Parental Efforts to Influence Eating Habits: When Parental Warmth Matters

Adolescents’ Response to Parental Efforts to Influence Eating Habits: When Parental Warmth Matters

Eating Disorders among Iranian Male Adolescents

Factors Influencing Body Image During Adolescence

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