The mediating role of eating psychopathology in the relationship between unhealthy core beliefs and feeding difficulties in a nonclinical group

Abstract

Maternal drive for thinness mediates the effect of unhealthy beliefs on mothers' tendencies to report feeding difficulties in their daughters.

Eating disorders mothers and their children: a systematic review of the literature

“…The research design and content of studies was well executed with over 90% rated as strong. The four studies rated as moderate were due to (1) poor representativeness of cases, poorly defined controls and ascertainment of exposure; (2) lack of comparability of cases and controls on the basis of design or analysis (Blissett and Meyer 2006 ); (3) one study being uncontrolled (Hodes et al 1997 ); and (4) no description of control group, no mention of history of outcome (Saltzman et al 2016 ). It is worth noting that sample size was not accounted for as some studies rated as strong included small sample sizes of less than 10 (Evans and le Grange 1995 ).…”

“…Blisset and Meyer found similar results with some gender specificity, showing that maternal eating psychopathology predicted food refusal in girls but not boys. Symptoms of low maternal depression combined with high bulimic scores were significantly associated with food refusal in girls (Blissett and Meyer 2006 ). Conversely, Whelan and Cooper did not find the gender of the child to be related to maternal ED history, nor did it moderate the relationship between feeding difficulties and maternal ED (Whelan and Cooper 2000 ).…”

In‐depth mental health evaluation of a community sample of nonreferred infants with feeding difficulties

“…[1][2][3][4] In large surveys, however an ''in depth'' evaluation of the clinical features of the cases is hardly possible. 5 Such evaluations are usually carried out in clinical settings, after a specific referral. [6][7][8] Most if not all the information about infants with feeding disorders has been obtained from those samples.…”