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Parents' and daughters' perceptions of body esteem may not correlate.
2003 MAR 6 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Parents and their adolescent daughters may have incongruent perceptions about body esteem, according to a study from Canada.
"This study examined parents' awareness of their daughters' attitudes, beliefs, and feelings about their bodies. Sixty-six daughters aged 12-15 years completed the Stirling Eating Disorder Scale, a body figure rating scale, and made ratings of their shape and weight. They also completed a more comprehensive measure of body satisfaction, the Body Esteem Scale (BES)," wrote J. Geller and colleagues, St. Pauls Hospital, Eating Disorders Clinic.
"Mothers and fathers estimated their daughters' shape and weight, and completed the BES with instructions to complete the measure from their daughters' perspective."
"While there were few differences between mothers' and fathers' reports, parent-daughter congruence scores varied according to methodology and attribute measured. That is, parents' ratings of objective daughter characteristics on single-item rating scales were more congruent with daughters' self-reports than parents' estimates of daughters' feelings about their bodies using ...
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