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Similar levels of maternal restriction in overweight and normal-weight mothers had different effects on their daughters' eating behavior and weight status. This interaction of weight status with the impact of maternal restriction produced increasingly different behavioral phenotypes from age 5 to 9 y in daughters of overweight and normal-weight mothers.
- L A Francis, L L Birch
- 10.1038/sj.ijo.0802935
- 2005
- 2005/08
More adverse effects of restriction on daughters' EAH, and links between EAH and BMI change were only noted among daughters of overweight mothers. These findings highlight the need for a better understanding of factors that contribute to within-group variation in eating behavior and weight status.
- L A Francis, L L Birch
- 2005
The current study also contributes to our understanding of the relation between child temperament and parents’ use of restriction and its moderating role in the effects of restriction on child weight outcomes and eating behaviors. The current study had several limitations. The sample consisted of only mothers and daughters.
DESIGN: Longitudinal study of the health and development of young girls. SUBJECTS: A total of 91 overweight and 80 normal-weight mothers and their daughters, assessed when daughters were ages 5, 7, and 9 y. MEASUREMENTS: Measures included maternal restriction of daughters' intake at age 5 y, and daughters' EAH and BMI change from age 5 to 9 y.
A 2 (weight status) × 2 (restriction) × 3 (time) repeated-measures analysis of variance was then used to examine the following: 1) changes in the girls' mean EAH scores from 5 to 9 y of age; 2) differences in the girls' EAH at each age as a function of maternal restriction, girls' weight status, and the interaction between restriction and weight status; and 3) changes in the girls' EAH from ...
However, as the first study examining the interactive effects of monitoring and child weight status, it was found that high levels of maternal monitoring were associated with greater eating disorder psychopathology in children with higher than lower weight status, although the interaction effect was smaller compared to that of restriction and weight status.
recent studies suggest that restriction of child eating is partially elicited by child weight status. Preliminary evidence came from Birch & Fisher’s (2000) path ana-lytic study that tested the relations among maternal restriction of daughters’ eating, their ability to regu-late food intake, their 3-day food intake and their relative weight.
