Explaining the pathway from familial and peer social support to disordered eating: Is body dissatisfaction the link for male and female adolescents?

Eating Behaviors, Weight Bias, and Psychological Functioning in Multi-ethnic Low-income Adolescents

“…This finding is supportive of the data that shows that eating can be used as a coping mechanism to counter the effects of distress experienced from WB (Hübner et al, 2016;Puhl et al, 2017;Puhl & Brownell, 2006). WB is not the only pathway to disordered eating and obesity, but it is a risk factor that has been identified in previous studies (Kirsch, Shapiro, Conley, & Heinrichs, 2016;Neumark-Sztainer et al, 2007;Puhl et al, 2017). A recent longitudinal study found WB during childhood may lead to emotional eating negatively affecting long-term weight loss maintenance in adulthood (Hübner et al, 2016).…”

Appearance Esteem Trajectory According to Three Different Sources of Support Among Adolescents Over a School Year

“…This finding suggests that entry into adolescence may have unfavorable effects on appearance esteem, which is consistent with findings on the negative impact of puberty on body image, as in the studies by Ackard and Peterson (2001) and Tremblay and Lariviere (2009). Appearance esteem also decreased in Grade 10 participants who reported low social support from friends, which suggests a protective role of friends at this age (Kirsch, Shapiro, Conley, & Heinrichs, 2016).…”

“…Although the sample size was sufficient to test the hypotheses of this study (Coertjens et al, 2017), it was not large enough to provide statistical power to test other moderation hypotheses. For example, a previous study found that gender did not moderate the relationship between social support from family and from peers and body dissatisfaction (Kirsch et al, 2016). Even if a previous study suggested that body satisfaction of offspring is more influenced by parents of the same sex as them (Kluck, 2010), having a larger sample would have allowed parent-adolescent differential gender analyses (i.e., motherdaughter, mother-son, father-daughter, and father-son) to be conducted.…”

Spousal influence: A study of women with eating and body image concerns

“…body dissatisfaction, thin-ideal internalization, and perfectionism) on eating pathology (Schirk et al, 2015; Stice, 2002). Research on adolescent ED focuses on parental social support (Chng and Fassnacht, 2016; Hart and Chow, 2020; Hillard et al, 2016; Kirsch et al, 2016; Krug et al, 2016; Linville et al, 2011), but for adult women, an important source of social support may be their spouse. Research has consistently shown that marriage is beneficial for one’s health and may protect individuals from various causes of morbidity and mortality (Robles et al, 2014).…”