title: The relationship between mothers' thin-ideal and children's drive for thinness: A survey of Japanese early adolescents and their mothers.
abstract: We examined the association of mothers' thin-ideal internalization and children's drive for thinness. Early adolescents (175 girls and 198 boys) completed a questionnaire to assess their drive for thinness and perceptions of mothers' attitudes and behaviors related to body shape. The questionnaire for mothers (n = 206) measured mothers' thin-ideal internalization. Mothers' thin-ideal internalization was associated with girls' drive for thinness through the perception of mothers' attitudes directed to girls, and with boys' drive for thinness through mothers' weight-loss behavior. The findings suggest the possibility that mothers transmit social standards on body shape to their children.
authors.affiliation: Ochanomizu University, Japan.
authors.forename: Yoko
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Yamazaki
authors.affiliation: Ochanomizu University, Japan omori.mika@ocha.ac.jp.
authors.forename: Mika
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Omori
mesh_terms: D001290:Attitude; D001828:Body Image / Q000523:psychology*; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007564:Japan; D008297:Male; D009034:Mother-Child Relations; D009035:Mothers / Q000523:psychology*; D012737:Sex Factors; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D013851:Thinness / Q000523:psychology*
keywords: drive for thinness; early adolescents; gender differences; maternal influences; thin-ideal internalization