Date of Award:
5-1995
Document Type:
Dissertation
Degree Name:
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Department:
Psychology
Committee Chair(s)
David M. Stein
Committee
David M. Stein
Committee
Lani Van Dusen
Committee
Mary Doty
Committee
Elwin Nielsen
Committee
Carol Strong
Abstract
This study was an investigation of the similarities and differences between mothers' and daughters' self-reported eating and dieting behavior. Also investigated was actual eating behaviors of mothers and daughters after consuming a milk shake preload presented as containing the caloric equivalents of one average meal.
Thirty-five mothers and their sixth-grade daughters completed a series of self-report instruments including the Bulimia Test-Revised, the Revised Dietary Restraint Scale, and the Anorexia-Bulimia Inventory. Subjects then individually completed a contrived ice cream taste test, which involved consuming a milk shake preload prior to tasting vanilla, chocolate, and strawberry ice cream. The relationship between mothers' and daughters' grams of ice cream consumed was negligible. However, several noteworthy relationships were found between mothers' and daughters' self-report indices. Results are discussed in terms of a modeling hypothesis for abnormal eating patterns.
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Recommended Citation
Bushman, Kimberly K., "Cross-Generational Similarities Between Mothers' and Daughters' Abnormal Eating Behaviors" (1995). All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023. 6088.
https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/6088
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