Parental Psychological Control, Attachment Insecurity and Body Shame: How Relational Factors Impact Disordered Eating

King, Ashley; Russon, Jody; Mensinger, Janell L.; Jin, Bora

doi:10.1007/s10826-022-02374-2

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“…The author indicated 6 behavioral categories instantiating PPC -(1) constraining verbal expressions, (2) invalidating feelings, (3) personal attack, (4) guilt induction, (5) love withdrawal, and (6) erratic emotional behavior -and developed a selfreport to measure it -the Psychological Control Scale-Youth Self-Report (PCS-YSR) (Barber, 1996). The studies that used the PCS-YSR to explore PPC and DE consistently demonstrated the association between the two (Reilly et al, 2016;King et al, 2022), reporting the specific correlations between invalidating feelings and under-eating and between personal attack and over-eating (Romm et al, 2019;Romm and Alvis, 2022). The correlation between PPC and DE was confirmed by studies using other tools -such as the Parental Bonding Instrument (PBI) (Parker et al, 1979) and the Invalidating Childhood Environment Scale (ICES) (Mountford et al, 2007).…”

Section: Parenting Style and Edsmentioning

confidence: 99%

The role of developmental caregiving programming in modulating our affiliation tendency and the vulnerability to social anxiety and eating disorders

Gagliardi

2024

Front. Psychol.

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Attachment is the evolutionarily-established process through which humans create bonds with others to receive care from them. The phenomenon is as essential to our physical survival as it is to our psychological development. An increasing number of studies demonstrates that in sensitive periods during the early years of life, our brain circuitry is programmed in the interactions with our caregivers, with the imprinting of information over multiple attachment dimensions. Adopting a basic brain-computer analogy, we can think of this knowledge as the psycho-social firmware of our mind. According to a recently proposed extension of the classical three-dimensional view, one attachment dimension – somaticity – concerns the caregiver’s task of reflecting and confirming the child’s (internal) states – such as sensations, emotions, and representations – to support the child’s ability to identify and define those entities autonomously. Relying on multidisciplinary evidence – from neuroscientific, developmental, evolutionary, and clinical sources – we suggest that somaticity (H1) has the adaptive function to modulate our tendency to comply and affiliate with a reference group but also (H2) increases the vulnerability to developing Social Anxiety (SA) and Eating Disorders (EDs). We evaluate H1-H2, (1) indicating the evolutionary role of somaticity in modulating our affiliation tendency to optimize the ancestral threat-opportunity balance coming from infectious diseases and (2) showing the deep connection between SA-EDs and the features most closely related to somaticity – interoception and parenting style. Finally, we discuss three relevant implications of H1-H2: (A) Bringing into research focus the adaptive role of our firmware knowledge system versus the hardware (neural substrate) and software (higher cognition) ones. (B) Complementing the well-grounded Objectification and Allocentric Lock Theories, allowing us to integrate multiple levels of explanation on the etiology of psychopathology. (C) Suggesting the design of new psychological treatments. While not aiming to prove H1-H2, our analysis supports them and encourages their direct testing.

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Section: Parenting Style and Edsmentioning

confidence: 99%

The role of developmental caregiving programming in modulating our affiliation tendency and the vulnerability to social anxiety and eating disorders

Gagliardi

2024

Front. Psychol.

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Testing an Integrated Biopsychosocial Model of Adolescent Girls’ Body Shame: Considering the Role of Pubertal Development

Guo,

2023

Sex Roles

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Parental psychological control, early maladaptive schemas, and romantic attachment in emerging adults

Mullinax,

Turner

2023

Curr Psychol

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Parental Psychological Control, Attachment Insecurity and Body Shame: How Relational Factors Impact Disordered Eating

Cited by 4 publications

References 70 publications

The role of developmental caregiving programming in modulating our affiliation tendency and the vulnerability to social anxiety and eating disorders

The role of developmental caregiving programming in modulating our affiliation tendency and the vulnerability to social anxiety and eating disorders

Testing an Integrated Biopsychosocial Model of Adolescent Girls’ Body Shame: Considering the Role of Pubertal Development

Parental psychological control, early maladaptive schemas, and romantic attachment in emerging adults

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