The mediating role of eating psychopathology in the relationship between unhealthy core beliefs and feeding difficulties in a nonclinical group

The mediating role of eating psychopathology in the relationship between unhealthy core beliefs and feeding difficulties in a nonclinical group

Blissett, J., & Meyer, C. (2006). The mediating role of eating psychopathology in the relationship between unhealthy core beliefs and feeding difficulties in a nonclinical group. International Journal of Eating Disorders, 39(8), 763-771. doi:10.1002/eat.20315

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. Int J Eat Disord 2006; 39:763-771.

Eating Behavior; In Infancy and Childhood; Eating Disorders; Familial and Genetic; Mother-Child Relations; Adult; Child, Preschool; Descriptive Statistics; Female; Linear Regression; Male; Psychological Tests; Psychopathology; Questionnaires; Schools, Nurs

UK

General population - community

Early maladaptive schemas

Correlational