NDLI: Connections Between Marital Conflict and Adolescent Girls’ Disordered Eating: Parent–Adolescent Relationship Quality as a Mediator

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Author	Blodgett Salafia, Elizabeth H. Schaefer, Mallary K. Haugen, Emily C.
Copyright Year	2013
Abstract	The family system has frequently been suggested to play an important role in adolescents’ health. Particularly, conflict within the marital dyad has been associated with maladjustment among adolescents, although studies have rarely focused on disordered eating as a possible negative outcome. In this study, we examined the direct association between marital conflict and disordered eating among 123 adolescent girls in middle school and high school. We also tested the mediating role of adolescents’ positive relationship quality with their mothers and fathers (e.g., high warmth and low control) in this relation. For our hypothesized direct effects and mediation models, we formed latent constructs with cross-sectional data collected from girls’ self-report questionnaires and applied bootstrapping procedures. We found that marital conflict was both directly and indirectly, via poor mother– and father–adolescent relationship quality, associated with girls’ disordered eating. This suggests that the mother–father, mother–adolescent, and father–adolescent family subsystems can play a part in influencing girls’ eating patterns. Clearly, family subsystems have significant roles in promoting the health of young, female adolescents. Future research and treatment efforts for girls exhibiting disordered eating should aim to include family members and address the roles of different family subsystems.
Starting Page	1128
Ending Page	1138
Page Count	11
File Format	PDF
ISSN	10621024
Journal	Journal of Child and Family Studies
Volume Number	23
Issue Number	6
e-ISSN	15732843
Language	English
Publisher	Springer US
Publisher Date	2013-05-29
Publisher Place	Boston
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Adolescent girls Disordered eating Marital conflict Mothers and fathers Parenting Parent–adolescent relationship quality Child and School Psychology Social Sciences Sociology
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Life-span and Life-course Studies Developmental and Educational Psychology

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