TY - JOUR
T1 - The Mediating Role of Eating Psychopathology in the Relationship between Unhealthy Core Beliefs and Feeding Difficulties in a Non-Clinical Group
AU - Blissett, Jacqueline
AU - Meyer, C
PY - 2006/12/1
Y1 - 2006/12/1
N2 - objective: To determine whether maternal eating psychopathology mediates the relationship between unhealthy core beliefs and reports of child feeding difficulties. Method: A community sample of 114 mothers of 65 male children and 49 female children between 4 months and 5 years completed the Eating Disorders Inventory-II, (Garner, Eating Disorder Inventory-2 Professional Manual, Odessa, 1991) the Child Feeding Assessment Questionnaire, (Harris and Booth, Monographs in Clinical Pediatrics, Vol 5, 1992) and the Young Schema Questionnaire (Short Form) (Young, Young's Schema Questionnaire: Short Form, Available in electronic form at, http://www.schematherapy.com, 1998). Results: Drive for thinness significantly mediated the relationship between maternal defectiveness/shame beliefs and food refusal in mothers of daughters, but no mediational relationships were found for mothers of sons in this nonclinical group. Conclusion: Maternal drive for thinness mediates the effect of unhealthy beliefs on mothers' tendencies to report feeding difficulties in their daughters. (c) 2006 by Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
AB - objective: To determine whether maternal eating psychopathology mediates the relationship between unhealthy core beliefs and reports of child feeding difficulties. Method: A community sample of 114 mothers of 65 male children and 49 female children between 4 months and 5 years completed the Eating Disorders Inventory-II, (Garner, Eating Disorder Inventory-2 Professional Manual, Odessa, 1991) the Child Feeding Assessment Questionnaire, (Harris and Booth, Monographs in Clinical Pediatrics, Vol 5, 1992) and the Young Schema Questionnaire (Short Form) (Young, Young's Schema Questionnaire: Short Form, Available in electronic form at, http://www.schematherapy.com, 1998). Results: Drive for thinness significantly mediated the relationship between maternal defectiveness/shame beliefs and food refusal in mothers of daughters, but no mediational relationships were found for mothers of sons in this nonclinical group. Conclusion: Maternal drive for thinness mediates the effect of unhealthy beliefs on mothers' tendencies to report feeding difficulties in their daughters. (c) 2006 by Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
KW - unhealthy core beliefs
KW - feeding difficulties
KW - gender
KW - children
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U2 - 10.1002/eat.20315
DO - 10.1002/eat.20315
M3 - Article
C2 - 16868996
VL - 39
SP - 763
EP - 771
JO - International Journal of Eating Disorders
JF - International Journal of Eating Disorders
IS - 8
ER -