Comparison Of Fathers Of Daughters With And Without Maladaptive Eating Attitudes
- 1 January 1995
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Journal of Emotional and Behavioral Disorders
- Vol. 3 (1), 40-45
- https://doi.org/10.1177/106342669500300105
Abstract
To explore eating disorders in adolescent females, this study examined the family perceptions of 22 daughters with maladaptive eating attitudes and 88 daughters without maladaptive eating attitudes. The results indicated that daughters with maladaptive eating attitudes reported problems with their fathers on communication, problem solving, autonomy issues, and expression of warmth, while reporting problems in communication and expression of warmth with their mothers. Parents of the two groups did not report any differences, although correlational data indicated that parents of daughters who reported more maladaptive eating attitudes were more likely to report family structural problems involving triangulation (bringing other family members into a conflict).Keywords
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