Original articleParent and Family Associations With Weight-Related Behaviors and Cognitions Among Overweight Adolescents
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Participants
Data from the present study were drawn from the Successful Adolescent Weight Losers (SAL) study, a descriptive study of 130 overweight adolescents who lost weight and those who did not. Participants were recruited using public marketing strategies (e.g., flyers, advertisements) from the Minneapolis/St. Paul area. Study procedures were approved by the Institutional Review Board at the University of Minnesota. Informed consent was obtained from all participants.
Because the aim of the present
Parent weight-control behaviors
Parent weight-control behaviors, specifically parent use of ODC, were associated with adolescent engagement in UWCB and BCS (Table 1). Parent use of ODC was associated with a 2.5 increase likelihood of adolescents using at least one UWCB, and an almost three times increased likelihood of adolescents using at least one BCS. Parent use of HWCB, UWCB, and ODC were all associated with lower adolescent body satisfaction, and parent use of HWCB was associated with greater adolescent report of the
Discussion
The present study examined associations between parent weight-control behaviors, psychosocial functioning, and family functioning and adolescent weight-control and eating behaviors and cognitions related to body satisfaction and importance of thinness among a group of overweight adolescents and their parents. As hypothesized, associations were found between parent weight-control behaviors and adolescent weight-control behaviors, but not all weight-control behaviors reported by parents were
Acknowledgments
Supported by University of Minnesota Children's Vikings Grant.
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