Parental deployment and distress, and adolescent disordered eating in prevention‐seeking military dependents
| Autor: | Natasha L. Burke, William Leu, M. K. Higgins Neyland, Denise E. Wilfley, Cara H. Olsen, Marian Tanofsky-Kraff, Lisa M. Shank, Alexandria Morettini, Abigail Pine, Mary Quattlebaum, Dakota Gillmore, Sarah Jorgensen, Mark B. Stephens, Tracy Sbrocco, Jack A. Yanovski, Natasha A. Schvey, David A. Klein, Jeffrey D. Quinlan |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Adult
Male Parents 050103 clinical psychology Adolescent Psychological intervention Psychological Distress Article Feeding and Eating Disorders 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Humans Medicine 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Disordered eating Child Parental distress business.industry 05 social sciences Stressor medicine.disease Obesity 030227 psychiatry Psychiatry and Mental health Distress Military Personnel Software deployment Female business Military deployment Clinical psychology |
| Zdroj: | International Journal of Eating Disorders. 53:201-209 |
| ISSN: | 1098-108X 0276-3478 |
| Popis: | Objective Parental military deployment can lead to stress in the family system due to concerns about the deployed service-member's safety and increased responsibilities for those not deployed. Parent-related stress can impact adolescent disordered eating. Given the important role that stress plays in disordered eating and obesity, it is crucial to understand the impacts of unique stressors to which vulnerable populations are exposed. Method We studied 126 adolescent (14.3 ± 1.6 years; 59.5% girls; 44.4% non-Hispanic White; BMI-z, 1.91 ± .39) military dependents prior to entering an obesity and binge-eating disorder prevention trial. The Eating Disorder Examination was used to assess adolescent disordered eating. Parents self-reported their own distress and family deployment history that occurred during the adolescent's lifetime. Results Parental distress interacted with frequency of parental deployments such that for those with high parental distress, more frequent deployment was associated with greater adolescent shape and weight concerns (β = .21, p = .012) and global eating pathology (β = .18, p = .024). Discussion In this hypothesis-generating study, the combination of number of deployments and parental distress may be associated with disordered eating among adolescent military dependents seeking prevention of binge-eating disorder and adult obesity. If these preliminary findings are supported longitudinally, interventions to reduce parental stress related to deployment may be warranted to reduce disordered eating in adolescent dependents. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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