The relationship between dysfunctional family patterns and symptom severity among adolescent patients with eating disorders: a gender-specific approach
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UAM. Departamento de Psicología Biológica y de la SaludPublisher
RoutledgeDate
2015-12-01Citation
10.1080/03630242.2015.1118728
Women & Health 56.6 (2016): 695–712
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0363-0242 (print); 1541-0331 (online)DOI
10.1080/03630242.2015.1118728Subjects
Caregiving experience; Eating disorders; Family functioning; Gender; PsicologíaNote
This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Women & Health on 2016, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/03630242.2015.1118728Rights
© 2016 Taylor & FrancisAbstract
The objective of the authors in this study was to identify factors related to dysfunctional family functioning that may be associated with the severity of symptoms among adolescent patients with an eating disorder (ED) at first-contact care. A total of forty-eight mothers and forty-five fathers of fifty patients with EDs were recruited from an ED unit in Madrid, Spain, between October 2011 and July 2012. Parents completed self-report assessments related to family functioning and psychological wellbeing. Patients went through clinical interviews and completed a self-report questionnaire assessing symptom severity. Compared to fathers, mothers showed higher levels of anxiety and emotional over-involvement and perceived to a greater degree the positive and negative aspects of their experience as caregivers. Regarding the relationship between family functioning and symptom severity, mothers’ perceptions of their family relationships as enmeshed and less adaptive, along with anxiety, accounted for 39% of variance in the severity of ED symptoms. Anxiety and symptom accommodation by the fathers accounted for 27% of variance in the symptom severity. Interventions that help parents to cope with their caregiving role should target behavioral, cognitive, and emotional aspects of their functioning and be gender-specific, to improve the outcome of ED in patients
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Google Scholar:Anastasiadou, Dimitra
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Sepúlveda García, Ana Rosa
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Parks, Melissa
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Cuellar-Flores, Isabel
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Graell Berna, Montserrat
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