Predictive factors of eating disorders on general health and nutrition attitudes of children of mothers

Subject Areas : Journal of Educational Psychology

Mohamad Reza Zarbakhsh Bahri ¹ , علی Shahbazi ² , Sahar Shahri ³ , Lida Shamsazar ⁴ , Masoome Shahri ⁵ , Solmaz Rahbar Farzami Hagh ⁶

1 - Department of Educational Science and Psychology, tonekabon Branch, Islamic Azad University, tonekabon, Iran
2 - M.A of Clinical Psychology, Faculty of Humanity, Tonekabon Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tonekabon, Iran
3 - M.A of Clinical Psychology, Faculty of Humanity, Tonekabon Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tonekabon, Iran
4 - M.A of Clinical Psychology, Faculty of Humanity, Tonekabon Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tonekabon, Iran
5 - M.A of Educational Management, Faculty of Humanity, Tonekabon Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tonekabon, Iran
6 - M.A of Information Science and Knowledge, Tonekabon Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tonekabon, Iran

Received: 2015-05-10 Accepted : 2015-07-27 Published : 2015-09-01

Keywords: mental health, eating disorders, maternal nutrition attitudes,

Abstract :

One of the prevalent psychological disorders, mostly in the late teens and young hood is nutritional disorders, that characterized by abnormal eating patterns and cognitive Impairment related to nutrition and health. The research aims at finding out the relation between mothers’ general health and nutrition attitude with their female children’s nutrition attitude and Its Prediction power.In this descriptive study of a correlation type, 250 female students and their mothers were selected in Gonbad Kavous city through cluster random sampling. The data gathered by the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-28), the Eating Attitudes Test (EAT-26). The data gathered were analyzed through Correlation test and multivariate regression, was used model Stepwise.The results showed that all components of public health and nutrition attitudes of mothers and eating disorders in children a significant relationship with the meaningful factors for eating disorders and nutrition attitudes than other variables, and in the attitude to power of a variable (used Food), the mother of the most useful predictor variable for fear of puberty daughter. In the second equation attitude to feeding mothers variable (oral control) the most useful predictor of interpersonal distrust daughter. Finally back attitude to mothers fed variable (oral control) would be the most useful predictor variable in the equation. In total perfectionist attitude toward public health nutrition mother variables could predict children's eating disorders. The family’s status of general health specifically that of the mother as well as the family members’ nutrition attitudes can be effective on children’s body forms and their dietary. ر