title: 'Mum's the word': Predictors and outcomes of weight concerns in pre-adolescent and early adolescent girls.
abstract: Predictors and outcomes of weight concerns in pre-adolescent and adolescent girls are well known, but few models have incorporated concerns reported directly by mothers as a predictor, and both eating and exercise outcomes. Using questionnaires, a comprehensive model of 232 pre-adolescent and early adolescent girls' weight concerns, eating restraint, and exercise behavior was tested. Structural equation modeling showed that daughters' weight concerns were predicted primarily by their perceptions of their mothers' concerns about the daughters' weight, as well as by daughters' BMI, appearance conversations with friends, and perceived media pressure. Mothers' concerns with their daughters' weight were indirectly associated with daughters' own concerns, via the daughters' perceptions of their mothers' concerns. Daughters' concerns with their weight were a strong predictor of eating restraint, but not exercise behavior.
authors.affiliation: School of Psychology and Speech Pathology, Health Psychology and Behavioural Medicine Research Group, Curtin University, Perth, Australia. Electronic address: C.Thogersen@curtin.edu.au.
authors.forename: Cecilie
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Thøgersen-Ntoumani
authors.affiliation: Department of Sports Science and Physical Education, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. Electronic address: ngyauyin@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Johan Yau Yin
authors.initials: JY
authors.lastname: Ng
authors.affiliation: School of Psychology and Speech Pathology, Health Psychology and Behavioural Medicine Research Group, Curtin University, Perth, Australia. Electronic address: Nikos.Ntoumanis@curtin.edu.au.
authors.forename: Nikos
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Ntoumanis
authors.affiliation: School of Psychology and Speech Pathology, Health Psychology and Behavioural Medicine Research Group, Curtin University, Perth, Australia. Electronic address: Nikos.Chatzisarantis@curtin.edu.au.
authors.forename: Nikos
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Chatzisarantis
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Social Research on Physical Activity, School of Physical Education and Sport Science at Serres, Serres, Greece. Electronic address: vlachop@phed-sr.auth.gr.
authors.forename: Symeon
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Vlachopoulos
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Social Research on Physical Activity, School of Physical Education and Sport Science at Serres, Serres, Greece. Electronic address: noni@phed-sr.auth.gr.
authors.forename: Ermioni S
authors.initials: ES
authors.lastname: Katartzi
authors.affiliation: Department of Physical Education and Sport Science, University of Athens, Athens, Greece. Electronic address: nnikita@phed.uoa.gr.
authors.forename: Nikitas
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Nikitaras
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001828:Body Image / Q000523:psychology*; D015992:Body Mass Index; D001835:Body Weight; D002648:Child; D003142:Communication; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008402:Mass Media; D008875:Middle Aged; D009034:Mother-Child Relations; D009035:Mothers / Q000523:psychology*; D009679:Nuclear Family; D010379:Peer Group; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires
keywords: Adolescence; Eating restraint; Media; Mothers; Peers; Weight concerns