Many parents express concern that raising the issue of weight risks harming their child's
physical self-perceptions and wellbeing. Such concerns can deter families from engaging …

Background The aim of this paper is to explore the relationships between mothers' report of
parental weight talk about her daughter, herself, and others, and adolescent girls' weight …

Mothers' influence on their daughters is important for understanding girls' disordered eating
and body dissatisfaction. Direct maternal encouragement of daughters to lose weight is …

The ubiquity and gravity of female body dissatisfaction and disordered eating has motivated
countless academics and practitioners to better understand and treat these issues. Many …

We are not born knowing what to eat; as omnivores it is something we each have to figure
out for ourselves. From childhood onward, we learn how big a" portion" is and how sweet is …

Research on body image and eating within the mother-daughter dyad tends to emphasize
the influence that mothers may have on daughters, with little focus on the concomitant …

Background Binge eating, a type of disordered eating, is relatively common among youth
and predisposes them to many adverse health outcomes. Diverse psychological and social …

Introduction: This study utilizes triadic data to examine the association between mother-
father-adolescent concordance (agreement) and discordance (disagreement) on home …

The aim of this paper was to establish whether the influence of socioeconomic factors on
BMI and the prevalence of underweight and overweight changes with age. The data were …

Objective To develop and validate the weight-control behaviors (WCBs) scale and to
evaluate its psychometric properties. Study design We made use of data from a cluster …