KMID : 0606120130190030228
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Korean Journal of Child Health Nursing 2013 Volume.19 No. 3 p.228 ~ p.237
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Testing the Biobehavioral Family Model in Understanding the Eating Problems of Adolescent Girls
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Park Ji-Young
Baek Su-Yon Kim Hee-Soon Lim Jung-Ha Kim Tae-Hyung
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Abstract
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Purpose: This study was done to test a hypothesized model, the Biobehavioral Family Model (BBFM), on the relationship of family emotional climate, security of parent-child relationship, depression symptoms and eating problems in adolescent girls, to further understanding of eating problems in this population.
Methods: With a convenience sample of 647 girls, aged 15 to 18, a self-report survey was conducted which included the Korean form of the Eating Attitude Test (EAT-26) to assess eating problems.
Results: The estimated results of the structural equation modeling indicated a good fit of data to the hypothesized model proposing that family emotional climate and security of parent-child relationship were associated with the risk of eating problems by way of depression symptoms. That is, negative family emotional climate and insecure parent-child relationship increased the risk of eating problems indirectly by way of depression symptoms.
Conclusion: The findings are consistent with the BBFM, which suggests a psychobiologic influence of specific family processes on children¡¯s stress-sensitive physical disease activity by way of depression symptoms. Therefore, the applicability of the BBFM for understanding adolescent girls¡¯ eating problems is supported. The psychobiologic pathways from depression to eating pathology should be addressed in future studies.
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KEYWORD
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Adolescent, Depression, Eating disorders, Parent-child relations
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