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International Journal of Social Psychiatry, Vol. 53, No. 6, 507-513 (2007)
DOI: 10.1177/0020764007078350
© 2007 SAGE Publications

Association of Eating Attitudes Between Teenage Girls and Their Parents

Aina A. Yanez

aina.yanez{at}caubet-cimera.es

Maria A. Peix

Neus Atserias

Anna Arnau

Johannes Brug

Aina A. Yanez

Department of Epidemiology, Hospital General de Vic, Vic, and Program of Epidemiology & Clinical Research, Foundation Caubet-Cimera, Balearic Islands, Spain

Maria A. Peix

Department of Pediatrics, Hospital General de Vic, Vic, Spain

Neus Atserias

Department of Psychiatry and Mental Health, Hospital General de Vic, Vic, Spain

Anna Arnau

Department of Epidemiology, Hospital General de Vic, Vic, Spain

Johannes Brug

Department of Public Health, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Background: Mothers of eating disordered adolescents were more likely to have an eating disorder. However, some contradictory findings were reported because some studies failed to find this association.

Aims: The main objective of the study was to determine the association of eating attitudes in adolescent girls with eating attitudes in their parents.

Methods: A sample of 969 girls from Osona County (Barcelona, Spain) and their parents participated in the study. Girls completed the Eating Attitudes Test (EAT-26) and their weight and height were measured. Parents completed questionnaire with self-reported weight and height, demographic characteristics and EAT-26.

Results: 10.1% of girls showed high EAT-26 scores (> 20 points), indicating abnormal eating attitudes. Female adolescents were almost three times more likely to have abnormal eating attitudes if their mothers scored high on EAT-26 (OR = 2.8; 95% CI 1.5—5.2). Other significant predictors of high EAT-26 scores were age and obesity.

Conclusions: An abnormal eating attitude of the mother was identified as a potential risk factor in the development of eating disorders in female adolescents.

Key Words: adolescents • eating disorders • parental influence


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