2009/02/06 by Haleama Al Sabbah, Carine Vereecken, Frank J. Elgar +7 · 2 citations
Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Medicine · Psychology · #Animal Nutrition and Physiology #Animal science #Association (psychology) #Behavioral Health and Interventions #Biology #Biostatistics #CobB #Cross-sectional study #Demography #Developmental psychology #Dieting #Eating Disorders and Behaviors #Genetics #Logistic regression #Meat and Animal Product Quality #Medicine #Obesity #Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet #Overweight #Perception #Psychology #Public health #Weight loss
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The findings suggest that enhanced parent communication might contribute in most countries to less body dissatisfaction in girls and better communication with the father can help avoiding body weight dissatisfaction in boys. Professionals working with adolescents and their families should help adolescents to have a healthy weight and positive body image and promote effective parent-adolescent communication.