Translational Health Research Institute, Western Sydney University, Locked Bag 1797, Penrith, NSW, 2751, Australia.
Department of Psychology, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia.
BMC Public Health. 2021 Mar 6;21(1):450. doi: 10.1186/s12889-021-10416-5.
The adolescent years see significant physical and emotional development that lay foundations for patterns of behaviour that can continue into adult life, including the shaping of eating behaviours. Given parents are key socio-environmental drivers and influencers of adolescent behaviours around physical health and wellbeing, it is critical to consider if specific forms of parental communication are potentially contributing to the associated emotional difficulties experienced in the adolescent years. The aim of this research was to systematically review the myriad of literature pertaining to the prevalence of parental weight or appearance-based teasing and adolescent eating problems to examine how the scientific and clinical community currently understands the relationship between these domains.
A systematic search of the literature, using the SCOPUS, APA PsycINFO, Medline, CINAHL databases, reference lists and Google Scholar, was undertaken to identify relevant literature for parental teasing and problem eating in adolescents aged 10-19 years, published between January 1980 to October 2020, in English or French.
Six studies met criteria for inclusion, all were cross-sectional studies and two included additional prospective data. Although parents were not the most common perpetrators of teasing, often subsidiary to that of peers and siblings, the influence and impact of parental teasing remained significant, and in some cases, appeared to interact with sibling-based teasing. This teasing was associated with problem eating behaviours for adolescents.
There is evidence in the literature to suggest the existence of an association between 'eating problems' amongst adolescents and exposure to parental appearance or weight teasing. Parents are unlikely to be aware of the perception or impact of the words they use or the wider influence these words may have. Future research should employ representative longitudinal designs to develop a greater understanding of the relationships between parental communications around their adolescent's appearance or weight and how that communication is perceived by adolescents within complex family processes.
PROSPERO 2018 CRD42018109623 . Prospectively registered 15th October 2018.
青少年时期身体和情感发育显著，为成年后的行为模式奠定基础，包括饮食习惯的形成。鉴于父母是影响青少年身心健康行为的主要社会环境驱动因素和影响者，因此需要考虑父母在与青少年身体健康和幸福感相关的行为方面的某些特定沟通方式是否可能导致青少年时期的相关情绪问题。本研究旨在系统回顾大量关于父母对青少年体重或外貌进行调侃与青少年饮食问题之间相关性的文献，以了解科学界和临床界目前如何理解这两个领域之间的关系。
使用 SCOPUS、APA PsycINFO、Medline、CINAHL 数据库、参考文献列表和 Google Scholar 对文献进行系统搜索，以确定 1980 年 1 月至 2020 年 10 月期间以英文或法文发表的 10-19 岁青少年父母调侃和青少年饮食问题的相关文献。
符合纳入标准的有 6 项研究，均为横断面研究，其中 2 项研究包含了额外的前瞻性数据。尽管父母不是调侃的最常见者，通常仅次于同伴和兄弟姐妹，但父母的调侃仍然具有显著影响，在某些情况下，这种影响似乎与来自兄弟姐妹的调侃相互作用。这种调侃与青少年的饮食问题行为有关。
文献中有证据表明，青少年“饮食问题”与父母对外貌或体重的调侃之间存在关联。父母可能没有意识到自己的言语感知或影响，以及这些言语在复杂家庭环境中对青少年的影响。未来的研究应该采用代表性的纵向设计，以更好地理解父母围绕青少年外貌或体重进行的沟通方式以及青少年对这些沟通方式的看法之间的关系。
PROSPERO 2018 CRD42018109623。2018 年 10 月 15 日前瞻性注册。
