title: Like mother, like daughter? An examination of the emotive responses to food.
abstract: The modelling of sub-clinical eating disorders and emotive responses to food between mothers and their early adolescent daughters was investigated. Twenty dyads viewed images of food and rated their levels of happiness, fear and disgust. Results suggest similarities between mothers' and daughters' emotive responses, but the exact nature of this relationship differed across food type and response type. Disordered eating was only related to responses to the low-calorie foods. Furthermore, mother's eating disorders symptoms were related to concerns about shape and weight in the daughters (all ps < .05). These results suggest a transmission of emotive responses to food within the dyad which may inform family-based intervention efforts in the prevention of eating disorders in young women.
authors.affiliation: University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia.
authors.forename: Sarah
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Lewis
authors.affiliation: University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia mkatsikiti@usc.edu.au.
authors.forename: Mary
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Katsikitis
authors.affiliation: University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia.
authors.forename: Kate
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Mulgrew
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D004644:Emotions / Q000502:physiology*; D001068:Feeding and Eating Disorders / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D005502:Food; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D009034:Mother-Child Relations / Q000523:psychology*; D009035:Mothers / Q000523:psychology*
keywords: dyadic modelling; eating attitudes; eating disorders; emotive response to food