The Relationship Between Emotional Eating, Emotion Regulation, and Maternal Parenting Behaviors in African- American Female Caregiver-adolescent Dyads
Year: 2011
Type: article
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: Emotional eating has been associated with an array of symptoms of psychopathology, yet most studies have conceptualized emotional eating as a function of weight status rather than dysregulated emotions.This study is the first study to explore the relationships between emotional eating, emotion regulation, and parenting behaviors in a sample of African-American adolescents and their female caregivers.Eighty-five African-American adolescent-parent dyads were recruited from an urban primary care clinic and completed questionnaires assessing emotional eating, emotion regulation, and parenting behaviors.Findings showed that African-American adolescents reported more frequently eating in response to depressed emotions compared to anger, anxiety and/or frustration.No relationship was found between adolescents' emotion regulation skills and emotional eating.Adolescents' emotional eating was not related to weight status.Higher levels of maternal emotional eating and maternal parenting behaviors characterized by higher levels of firm control predicted higher levels of emotional eating in adolescents.
Author: Sarah Anne Mason
Institution: Case Western Reserve University
Language: English
Subfield: Clinical Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2549943757