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European Eating Disorders Review

Publication date: 2009-07-01
Volume: 17 Pages: 315 - 323
Publisher: J. Wiley

Author:

Moens, Ellen
Braet, Caroline ; Bosmans, Guy ; Rosseel, Yves

Keywords:

childhood overweight, family factors, parenting stress, body-mass index, socioeconomic-status, physical-activity, psychological-problems, adolescent obesity, weight status, social-class, children, overweight, parents, Social Sciences, Science & Technology, Life Sciences & Biomedicine, Psychology, Clinical, Psychiatry, Psychology, BODY-MASS INDEX, SOCIOECONOMIC-STATUS, PSYCHOLOGICAL-PROBLEMS, PHYSICAL-ACTIVITY, WEIGHT STATUS, SOCIAL-CLASS, OVERWEIGHT, CHILDREN, PREDICTORS, RISK, Adolescent, Body Mass Index, Child, Child of Impaired Parents, Family Characteristics, Female, Humans, Life Change Events, Male, Overweight, Parenting, Psychopathology, Risk Factors, Social Class, Social Environment, Socialization, Socioeconomic Factors, Surveys and Questionnaires, Weight Gain, 1103 Clinical Sciences, 1701 Psychology, Clinical Psychology, 3202 Clinical sciences, 3210 Nutrition and dietetics, 5203 Clinical and health psychology

Abstract:

Objective: This cross-sectional study explores the influence of multiple familial factors on children's weight status and the interaction between parenting stress and unfavourable family characteristics.