Influence of Parental Expressed Emotions on Children's Emotional Eating via Children's Negative Urgency

Abstract
We investigated whether parental expressed emotion (criticism and emotional overinvolvement) is related to children's emotional eating and whether this relationship is mediated by children's negative urgency. One hundred children, aged 8 to 13 years, either healthy or have binge‐eating disorder and/or attention‐deficit/hyperactivity disorder, completed the questionnaires, along with their parents. Parental criticism and, to a lesser extent, parental emotional overinvolvement were both positively related to children's emotional eating, and this relationship was mediated by children's negative urgency. Further exploratory analyses revealed that the mediating role of children's negative urgency in the relationship between parental criticism and children's emotional eating was pronounced in the clinical group of children with binge‐eating disorder and attention‐deficit/hyperactivity disorder but almost absent in the healthy control group. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd and Eating Disorders Association.

Source: European Eating Disorders Review - October 26, 2016 Category: Eating Disorders and Weight Management Authors: Simone Munsch, Daniela Dremmel, Susanne Kurz, Jiske De Albuquerque, Andrea H. Meyer, Anja Hilbert Tags: Research Article Source Type: research