The Virginia Consortium Program in Clinical Psychology, 555 Park Avenue, Norfolk, VA, 23504, USA.
The Virginia Consortium Program in Clinical Psychology, 555 Park Avenue, Norfolk, VA, 23504, USA; Old Dominion University, 250 Mills Godwin Building, Norfolk, VA, 23529, USA.
Appetite. 2021 Dec 1;167:105603. doi: 10.1016/j.appet.2021.105603. Epub 2021 Jul 16.
The present study aimed to improve the understanding of inter- and intrapersonal processes implicated in emotional eating using a large community sample of parent-adolescent dyads.
Participants included 1823 parent and adolescent dyads who completed the National Cancer Institute's Family Life, Activity, Sun, Health, and Eating Study. Parents and adolescents each completed measures assessing parents' feeding behaviors, and participants' own emotional functioning and eating behaviors. Actor-partner interdependence models examined dyadic associations among participants' reports of parents' regulatory feeding behaviors (allowing adolescents to eat for emotional comfort purposes, controlling adolescents' "junk" food/sugary drink intakes), emotion suppression, and emotional eating in the absence of hunger.
Multiple within-person, cross-dyad member, and divergent parent versus adolescent dyadic effects were identified that differed based on the parental feeding behavior that parents and adolescents reported on. For example, adolescents' reports that their parents regulate their "junk" food/sugary drink intakes were associated with lower levels of their own emotion suppression and, in turn, lower levels of both their own and their parents' emotional eating, whereas parents' reports that they regulate their adolescents' "junk" food/sugary drink intakes were associated with higher levels of their own emotion suppression and emotional eating.
These findings underscore the complex interconnectivity among parental feeding behaviors, emotion dysregulation, and emotional eating within the parent-adolescent dyadic context, and support the use of preventive disordered eating interventions focused on enhancing healthy parent feeding behaviors and adaptive emotion regulation skills from a family-based perspective.
本研究旨在利用一个大型社区样本的亲子样本，深入了解情感进食中涉及的人际和个体内部过程。
参与者包括 1823 对父母和青少年，他们完成了国家癌症研究所的家庭生活、活动、阳光、健康和饮食研究。父母和青少年各自完成了评估父母喂养行为的措施，以及参与者自己的情绪功能和饮食行为。演员-伙伴相互依存模型考察了参与者报告的父母调节喂养行为（允许青少年为情绪舒适目的进食，控制青少年的“垃圾”食品/含糖饮料摄入量）、情绪抑制和没有饥饿感时的情绪进食之间的个体间、跨对成员和发散父母与青少年对的关联。
根据父母和青少年报告的父母喂养行为，确定了多种个体内、跨对成员和发散父母与青少年对的差异。例如，青少年报告他们的父母调节他们的“垃圾”食品/含糖饮料摄入量与他们自己的情绪抑制水平较低有关，进而与他们自己和父母的情绪进食水平较低有关，而父母报告他们调节青少年的“垃圾”食品/含糖饮料摄入量与他们自己的情绪抑制和情绪进食水平较高有关。
这些发现强调了父母喂养行为、情绪失调和情感进食在亲子对背景中的复杂相互关系，并支持从家庭为基础的角度使用预防饮食失调的干预措施，重点是增强健康的父母喂养行为和适应性情绪调节技能。
