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Associations among family‐of‐origin food‐related experiences, expectancies, and disordered eating
Author(s) -
Annus Agnes M.,
Smith Gregory T.,
Fischer Sarah,
Hendricks Megan,
Williams Suzannah F.
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
international journal of eating disorders
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.785
H-Index - 138
eISSN - 1098-108X
pISSN - 0276-3478
DOI - 10.1002/eat.20346
Subject(s) - dieting , disordered eating , psychology , developmental psychology , mediation , eating disorders , young adult , clinical psychology , obesity , medicine , weight loss , political science , law
Objective: The study reported here integrates research on family‐of‐origin learning experiences and adult eating/thinness expectancies in the study of risk for eating disordered behavior. Method: A sample of women manifesting a wide range of eating disordered behaviors ( n = 66) were compared in their retrospective reports of family learning, current eating and dieting expectancies, and current eating disordered behaviors. Results: History of food‐related teasing from friends and family, negative maternal modeling, and friends' criticism of eating all related to both adult disordered behavior and adult eating and thinness expectancies. Tests of mediation supported the putative mediation by expectancies of the relationships between early experiences and adult disordered behavior. Conclusion: Family‐of‐origin learning experiences may influence adult eating disordered behavior by contributing to the formation of expectancies for reinforcement from eating and from thinness. © 2006 by Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Int J Eat Disord 2006