Perceptions of parental relationships in the eating disorders: The relevance of depressed mood.

Abstract

Recent studies have suggested that subtypes of eating-disordered persons differ in their perceptions of their family environments. This study used Benjamin's (1983) Structural Analysis of Social Behavior to examine how depressed mood influenced eating-disordered subjects' ratings of their parental relationships. The results indicated that when level of mood disturbance was statistically controlled, there were no significant differences in parent ratings among restricting anorexics, bulimic-anorexics, bulimics, and normal control subjects. The results are discussed in terms of the possible relations of mood, eating disorder, and perception of family relationships.

Co‐occurring eating and depressive problems: An 8‐year study of adolescent girls

“…Girls with eating problems who also experience poor social relations, and therefore have fewer social supports, may be the girls who go on to develop depression. Findings linking poor family relations with depressive problems rather than eating problems has also been reported by researchers studying young adult women in treatment for an eating disorder (Wonderlich & Swift, 1990).…”

The role of general family environment and sexual and physical abuse in the origins of eating disorders

“…Two other studies (Blouin et al, 1990;Wonderlich and Swift, 1990a) noted that, if depression was controlled for, there was no difference between bulimics and controls in their perception of family functioning.…”

“…In one study, differences between anorexic and bulimic families disappeared when levels of depression were controlled for (Wonderlich and Swift, 1990a).…”

Eetstoornissen en de opvoedkundige rol van ouders

“…Bij proefpersonen met eetproblemen, en in het bijzonder bij klinische steekproeven, moet men de ernst van de depressie bepalen aangezien dit een factor zou kunnen zijn die de rapportage van de proefpersonen over ervaringen in het verleden en het heden beı¨nvloedt (Blouin, Zuro & Blouin, 1990;Wonderlich & Swift, 1990;Thienemann & Steiner, 1993). De beleving van de vroegere of huidige relatie met de ouders zou ook beı¨nvloed kunnen zijn door de feitelijke mate van hechting aan of emotionele separatie van de ouders (Armstrong & Roth, 1989;Zakin, 1989).…”