title: Communication with parents and body satisfaction in college students.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  This study examined how communication with parents is related to college students' body satisfaction.
  
  
  METHODS
  Participants (N = 134; 58 males and 76 females) completed a survey in March 2011 assessing body satisfaction and perceptions of communication with mothers and fathers.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Daughters' body satisfaction was negatively correlated with perceptions of problematic communication with mothers and fathers. Sons' body satisfaction was positively correlated with open communication with their mothers and negatively correlated with problematic communication with their mothers.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Findings indicated problematic communication with mothers was the most powerful predictor of daughters' body satisfaction, whereas open communication with mothers was the best predictor of sons' body satisfaction.
authors.affiliation: a Department of Communicology , University of Hawai'i at Mānoa , Honolulu , Hawai'i.
authors.forename: Emiko
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Taniguchi
authors.forename: R Kelly
authors.initials: RK
authors.lastname: Aune
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001828:Body Image / Q000523:psychology*; D003142:Communication; D005260:Female; D006254:Hawaii; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D012044:Regression Analysis; D012737:Sex Factors; D013334:Students / Q000523:psychology*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014495:Universities; D055815:Young Adult