TY - JOUR
T1 - Potential risk factors associated with weight control behaviors in elementary and middle school girls
AU - Shisslak, Catherine M.
AU - Crago, Marjorie
AU - McKnight, Katherine M.
AU - Estes, Linda S.
AU - Gray, Norma
AU - Parnaby, Ori G.
N1 - Funding Information:
Acknowledgments—This study was supported in part by a grant from the McKnight Foundation.
PY - 1998/3
Y1 - 1998/3
N2 - The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between weight control behaviors and potential risk factors for disordered eating in a sample of young girls. The McKnight Risk Factor Survey was administered to 523 elementary and middle school girls. In the sample of elementary school girls, results from the multiple regression analyses indicated that frequency/severity of weight control behaviors was associated with body mass index (BMI), self-confidence, peers' weight-related pressures, ethnicity, and the interaction between having divorced/separated parents and BMI. Sensitivity to peers' weight-related pressures and BMI were also associated with weight control behaviors in the middle school girls, along with poor body image, substance use, having divorced/separated parents, and the interaction between having divorced/separated parents and father's pressure for thinness. Longitudinal research is needed to determine how risk factors change over time, beginning in elementary school and continuing through high school.
AB - The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between weight control behaviors and potential risk factors for disordered eating in a sample of young girls. The McKnight Risk Factor Survey was administered to 523 elementary and middle school girls. In the sample of elementary school girls, results from the multiple regression analyses indicated that frequency/severity of weight control behaviors was associated with body mass index (BMI), self-confidence, peers' weight-related pressures, ethnicity, and the interaction between having divorced/separated parents and BMI. Sensitivity to peers' weight-related pressures and BMI were also associated with weight control behaviors in the middle school girls, along with poor body image, substance use, having divorced/separated parents, and the interaction between having divorced/separated parents and father's pressure for thinness. Longitudinal research is needed to determine how risk factors change over time, beginning in elementary school and continuing through high school.
KW - Eating disorders
KW - Risk factors
KW - Weight control behaviors
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U2 - 10.1016/S0022-3999(97)00256-0
DO - 10.1016/S0022-3999(97)00256-0
M3 - Article
C2 - 9587875
AN - SCOPUS:0032031335
SN - 0022-3999
VL - 44
SP - 301
EP - 313
JO - Journal of Psychosomatic Research
JF - Journal of Psychosomatic Research
IS - 3-4
ER -