Increases in Emotional Eating During Early Adolescence and Associations With Appearance Teasing by Parents and Peers, Rejection, Victimization, Depression, and Social Anxiety

Webb, Haley J.; Kerin, Jessica; Zimmer‐Gembeck, Melanie J.

doi:10.1177/0272431620950469

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“…Numerous subsequent studies have confirmed that being teased about one’s weight by family members is related to adolescent binge eating behavior and disordered eating [ 23 , 24 ]. A 5-year longitudinal study of 2516 adolescents in the United States revealed that adolescents with dieting peers were more likely to engage in extreme weight control behaviors [ 25 ].…”

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Gender-specific responses to multifaceted factors associated with disordered eating among adolescents of 7th to 9th grade

2022

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Background The prevalence of disordered eating is increasing among adolescents in Asia. The prevalence and predictors of disordered eating in boys have often gone unrecognized. This study examined gender-specific responses to multifaceted factors associated with disordered eating, including personal, behavioral, family, and school-related characteristics. Methods After excluding responses with incomplete information, a sample of 729 adolescents (48.97% boys) between the ages of 13 and 16 were surveyed through convenience sampling from 37 classrooms in three junior high schools in New Taipei City of Taiwan were analyzed. The Eating Attitudes Test-26 questionnaire was used to identify disordered eating. Results No difference in the prevalence of disordered eating between the genders was found. Adolescent girls exhibit a preoccupation with fatness and a desire to be thinner, whereas boys are more likely to engage in extreme dieting behaviors such as vomiting, keeping the stomach empty, and avoiding sweets. Girls engaging in disordered eating reported relatively high levels of interpersonal stress involving family member weight-teasing, low peer acceptance, and high peer pressure to control weight. High intensity of regular exercise was found in girls with disordered eating. The perception of body weight is a more critical factor of engaging in disordered eating for boys than girls. Adolescents with immigrant parents were associated with disordered eating among both genders. Conclusions Changing gender-specific weight-related norms in schools and families is essential to reduce the prevalence of disordered eating, particularly among girls. Future studies using representative samples to confirm this study’s findings are warranted.

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Gender-specific responses to multifaceted factors associated with disordered eating among adolescents of 7th to 9th grade

2022

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“…This may suggest that other influences are promoting the development of EE during adolescence (eg, external influences such as appearance teasing by peers or parents or internal influences such as social anxiety or body dissatisfaction). 55,56 The results of this study suggest that adolescents' characteristics, especially ER, play a considerable role in adolescents' EE. The correlation results showed that maladaptive ER was positively associated with adolescents' EE.…”

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Emotion Regulation Moderates the Associations of Food Parenting and Adolescent Emotional Eating

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Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior

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“…Depressive symptoms were measured with the 13‐item Short Mood and Feelings Questionnaire (Angold et al, 1995; e.g., “I felt I was no good anymore”). As has been done in previous research with adolescents (Webb et al, 2021), students were prompted to report their feelings within the past 2 weeks. Item responses ranged from 1 ( not true ) to 5 ( very true ).…”

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Peer relationships and stress: Indirect associations of dispositional mindfulness with depression, anxiety and loneliness via ways of coping

Zimmer‐Gembeck

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Campbell

2021

Journal of Adolescence

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IntroductionAdolescents higher in the trait of dispositional mindfulness report fewer socioemotional problems. Focusing on the domain of peer stressors, we tested a model of adolescents’ mindfulness as a resource that undergirds more constructive stress coping responses, in turn resulting in fewer socioemotional problems.MethodThe participants were 361 Australian secondary school students (40% boys; ages 11 to 18; M = 14.9 years; SD = 1.4). Each completed a questionnaire to report four facets of dispositional mindfulness; engagement and disengagement coping and involuntary stress responses to recent peer interpersonal stressful events; and socioemotional problems of loneliness, social anxiety, and depression.ResultsAdolescents who reported more dispositional mindfulness, including facets of awareness, describing, non‐judgement and non‐reactivity, were lower in involuntary peer stress responses, disengagement coping, loneliness, social anxiety, and depression; associations of mindfulness facets with engagement coping were mixed. Mediational path models showed that almost all the significant negative associations of dispositional mindfulness with loneliness, social anxiety and depression were fully indirect via peer stress coping responses. Further, an alternative model, which tested whether loneliness, social anxiety and depression were the instigators of stress coping responses via mindfulness, had an adequate but poorer fit.ConclusionAs hypothesized, the benefit of adolescents' dispositional mindfulness for reducing loneliness, social anxiety and depression seems to be indirect, with positive peer stress coping responses key mediators in these indirect pathways. It is less likely that the alternative occurs, whereby adolescents’ socioemotional problems are the foundation for mindfulness and peer stress coping responses.

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Increases in Emotional Eating During Early Adolescence and Associations With Appearance Teasing by Parents and Peers, Rejection, Victimization, Depression, and Social Anxiety

Cited by 27 publications

References 69 publications

Gender-specific responses to multifaceted factors associated with disordered eating among adolescents of 7th to 9th grade

Gender-specific responses to multifaceted factors associated with disordered eating among adolescents of 7th to 9th grade

Emotion Regulation Moderates the Associations of Food Parenting and Adolescent Emotional Eating

Peer relationships and stress: Indirect associations of dispositional mindfulness with depression, anxiety and loneliness via ways of coping

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