a Department of Human Development and Family Studies , The Pennsylvania State University , University Park , PA , USA.
b Research Unit , Sand Ridge Secure Treatment Center , Madison , WI , USA.
Eat Disord. 2017 Oct-Dec;25(5):420-435. doi: 10.1080/10640266.2017.1347417. Epub 2017 Sep 6.
Parent-adolescent relationship quality and affective functioning have been implicated in eating disorder development. This study examined whether maternal and paternal hostility interact to explain adolescents' eating disorder symptoms and whether parental hostility effects are more pronounced among adolescents with high emotional reactivity. A sample of 699 adolescents, ages 11-12 years, reported their parents' hostility and their own eating disorder symptoms, and parents reported adolescents' emotional reactivity. Results from structural equation modeling indicated that for emotionally reactive adolescents, paternal hostility was positively associated with eating disorder symptoms at both high and low levels of maternal hostility. In addition, eating disorder symptoms were amplified when both parents were high in hostility. Findings from this study lend support for the role of emotional reactivity in the link between parent hostility and eating disorder symptoms during adolescence.
亲子关系质量和情感功能与饮食失调的发展有关。本研究考察了父母敌意是否相互作用，以解释青少年的饮食失调症状，以及父母敌意的影响是否在情绪反应性高的青少年中更为明显。一项由 699 名年龄在 11-12 岁的青少年组成的样本报告了他们父母的敌意和自己的饮食失调症状，父母报告了青少年的情绪反应性。结构方程模型的结果表明，对于情绪反应性高的青少年，父亲的敌意与母亲敌意高或低时的饮食失调症状呈正相关。此外，当父母双方都具有高度敌意时，饮食失调症状会加剧。本研究的结果支持了情绪反应性在父母敌意与青少年饮食失调症状之间的联系中的作用。
