Perceptions of Parental Messages Regarding Eating and Weight and Their Impact on Disordered Eating

Associations among family‐of‐origin food‐related experiences, expectancies, and disordered eating

“…Although adult reports of family-of-origin learning experiences are, of course, subject to retrospective bias, there is considerable evidence for their validity. 6,7,14 The demonstration that they relate, as expected, to independently validated measures of overall learning provides further support for their validity. Similarly, if expectancy measures really do summarize prior learning, they should relate to reports of important prior learning events.…”

Parental attitudes, body image disturbance and disordered eating amongst adolescents and young adults: A review

“…This finding was replicated and extended to reveal that the perception of negative messages predicted disordered eating (Hanna & Bond, 2006). Gross and Nelson (2000) also reported that participants with higher body satisfaction perceived higher frequencies of positive messages. It has been proposed that among boys, positive messages were also associated with body satisfaction, suggesting that positive messages might act as a protective factor for body shape concerns.…”

“…In order to explore the exact nature of parental verbal messages, Gross and Nelson (2000) designed a questionnaire exploring the perceived frequency of 15 messages regarding weight and shape. The results showed that young women with low body dissatisfaction perceived negative parental messages.…”

Gender Differences in Parental Influences on Adolescent Body Dissatisfaction and Disordered Eating

“…Previous research has reported an association between these perceived attitudes, behaviors and messages on the one hand, and body dissatisfaction and disordered eating among offspring with evidence of both an influence of active communications via parental comments (Gross and Nelson 2000;Hanna and Bond 2006) and pressure to be thin (Presnell et al 2004) on the other hand. Furthermore, concerning this association, a modeling effect of parental attitudes and behaviors has also been demonstrated (Elfhag and Linné 2004;Pike and Rodin 1991;Wertheim et al 1999).…”