Over-Involved Moms Linked To Kids With Eating Disorders
First, it was autism. Now it's eating disorders. A new study has found that "young women are more likely to have disordered eating attitudes when their mothers often communicate criticism and are over-involved." Thanks a lot. Newswise.com quotes Analisa Arroyo, Ph.D., assistant professor of communication at the University of Georgia in Athens, GA, who said that young adult females whose mothers frequently engaged in “family expressed emotion,” which she explained as “an extraordinarily harmful pattern of criticism, over-involvement, excessive attention, and emotional reactivity that is usually communicated by parents toward their children,” tended to have poorer social and relationship skills." And those poor social and relationship skills were related to the daughters’ higher levels of psychological distress and disordered eating attitudes. What kind of disordered eating attitudes? Anorexia. Bulimia. Binge-eating. Arroyo commented that these attitudes fo...