Maternal Depressive and Anxiety Symptoms, Self-Esteem, Body Dissatisfaction and Preschooler Obesity: A Cross-Sectional Study

Autor/inn/en	Benton, Pree; Skouteris, Helen; Hayden, Melissa
Titel	Maternal Depressive and Anxiety Symptoms, Self-Esteem, Body Dissatisfaction and Preschooler Obesity: A Cross-Sectional Study
Quelle	In: Early Child Development and Care, 186 (2016) 5, S.799-814 (16 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0300-4430
DOI	10.1080/03004430.2015.1061519
Schlagwörter	Depression (Psychology); Anxiety; Mothers; Symptoms (Individual Disorders); Self Esteem; Body Composition; Preschool Children; Obesity; Body Weight; Questionnaires; Foreign Countries; Regression (Statistics); Scores; Measures (Individuals); Self Concept Measures; Eating Habits; Individual Characteristics; Statistical Analysis; Australia; Beck Depression Inventory; Rosenberg Self Esteem Scale; State Trait Anxiety Inventory + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Angst; Mother; Mutter; Psychiatrische Symptomatik; Self-esteem; Selbstaufmerksamkeit; Pre-school age; Preschool age; Child; Children; Pre-school education; Preschool education; Vorschulalter; Kind; Kinder; Vorschulkind; Vorschulkinder; Vorschulerziehung; Vorschule; Adipositas; Körpergewicht; Fragebogen; Ausland; Regression; Regressionsanalyse; Messdaten; Ernährungsgewohnheit; Essgewohnheit; Personality characteristic; Personality traits; Persönlichkeitsmerkmal; Statistische Analyse; Australien
Abstract	The primary aim of the present study was to cross-sectionally examine the associations between maternal psychosocial variables, child feeding practices, and preschooler body mass index z-score (BMI-z) in children (aged 2-4 years). A secondary aim was to examine differences in child weight outcomes between mothers scoring above and below specified cut-offs on the psychosocial measures. Two hundred and ninety mother-child dyads were recruited from Melbourne, Australia, and completed questionnaires examining demographic information, mothers' depressive and anxiety symptoms, self-esteem and body dissatisfaction, restrictive and pressure child feeding practices, and preschoolers' BMI-z scores. Independent t-tests and hierarchical multiple regression were employed to analyse the data. In the final regression model, none of the maternal psychosocial measures or feeding practices predicted child BMI-z scores; maternal body mass index and employment status were the only predictors of preschooler BMI-z. However, independent t-tests revealed that children of mothers with elevated body dissatisfaction scores had significantly higher BMI-z scores than children of mothers without elevated scores. The results suggest that psychosocial variables are not related, cross-sectionally, to preschooler weight outcomes; however, further research is needed to replicate the group differences noted between mothers with and without body dissatisfaction, and to track these relationships longitudinally. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01