Ying, Foo Shi (2020) Correlations of personal factors, maternal factors, and mother-daughter interaction with disordered eating among female adolescents in Petaling Perdana, Selangor. [Project Paper] (Submitted)
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Abstract
Mothers are perceived as primary socialization figures who transmit messages to adolescents about their appearance and eating behaviors. This cross-sectional study aimed to determine factors correlated with disordered eating among female adolescents in Petaling Perdana district, Selangor. A total of 191 mother-daughter pairs from five randomly selected secondary schools in Petaling Perdana district, participated in this study. Both adolescents and their mothers were required to complete different sets of questionnaires that assess socio-demographic characteristics, body image perception, eating behaviors, perceived appetite, fat talk, maternal comments, and maternal modeling and relationship quality among daughters and mothers. A total of 17.3% of daughters and 14.1% of mothers had disordered eating with mean disordered eating scores of 12.86±8.79 (daughter) and 10.57±8.45 (mother), respectively. A high prevalence of overweight and obesity was found among adolescents (28.3%) and their mothers (45.1%), respectively. While maternal disordered eating was weakly correlated with disordered eating of adolescents (r=0.166, p<0.05), maternal BMI was not significantly correlated with disordered eating score of adolescents (r=0.140, p=0.053). Obese adolescents had significantly higher disordered eating scores than their counterparts (F=2.807, p<0.05). Significant correlations were found between daughter’s BMI (r=0.245, p<0.05), daughter’s fat talk (r=0.286, p<0.05), mother’s fat talk (r=0.271, <0.05), negative relationship quality between daughter and mother (r=0.184, <0.05), maternal comments (r=0.168, p<0.05), maternal modeling (r=0.147, p<0.05), and mother’s dissatisfaction with daughter’s body size (r=0.178, p<0.05) and disordered eating of the daughters. In short, approximately one-fifth of the female adolescents and their mothers had disordered eating. The findings highlighted the importance to foster healthy mother-daughter interactions (limiting engagement in fat talk) among mother-daughter pairs to co-manage disordered eating among female adolescents. It is suggested that mother-daughter interaction should be incorporated in future disordered eating intervention for female adolescents
| Item Type: | Project Paper |
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| Faculty: | Faculty of Medicine and Health Science |
| Depositing User: | Ms Norafizah Radzuan |
| Date Deposited: | 30 Aug 2023 04:42 |
| Last Modified: | 30 Aug 2023 04:42 |
| URI: | http://psaspb.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/1240 |
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