Where is all the pressure coming from? Messages from mothers and teachers about preschool children's appearance, diet and exercise

Where is all the pressure coming from? Messages from mothers and teachers about preschool children's appearance, diet and exercise

McCabe, Marita, Ricciardelli, Lina, Stanford, Jacqueline, Holt, Kate, Keegan, Salley and Miller, Louise 2007, Where is all the pressure coming from? Messages from mothers and teachers about preschool children's appearance, diet and exercise, European eating disorders review, vol. 15, no. 3, pp. 221-230.

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Title	Where is all the pressure coming from? Messages from mothers and teachers about preschool children's appearance, diet and exercise
Author(s)	McCabe, Marita Ricciardelli, Lina Stanford, Jacqueline Holt, Kate Keegan, Salley Miller, Louise
Journal name	European eating disorders review
Volume number	15
Issue number	3
Start page	221
End page	230
Publisher	John Wiley & Sons
Place of publication	Malden, MA
Publication date	2007
ISSN	1072-4133
Keyword(s)	body image children sociocultural pressures body weight muscle concerns
Summary	This study used interviews and qualitative analyses to investigate the nature of the messages that preschool children receive from mothers and teachers about their bodies, general appearance, exercise and eating practices. Participants were 10 female teachers and 53 mothers. The behaviours of the 53 children (24 boys, 29 girls) were also observed to determine the nature of their eating and exercise behaviours. The results demonstrated that both mothers and teachers expressed concerns about their own bodies. Mothers also communicated messages to their daughters about losing weight and messages to their sons about increasing their muscles. Both girls and boys were concerned about their appearance, particularly their clothes and hair. Girls also demonstrated some concerns about losing weight, and boys with increasing muscles. Implications of these results are discussed in terms of designing education programs for mothers, teachers and children to prevent the development of body image concerns and disordered eating among children. Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd and Eating Disorders Association.
Language	eng
Field of Research	170106 Health, Clinical and Counselling Psychology
Socio Economic Objective	970117 Expanding Knowledge in Psychology and Cognitive Sciences
HERDC Research category	C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal
Copyright notice	©2006, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd and Eating Disorders Association.
Persistent URL	http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30007466

Document type:	Journal Article
Collection:	School of Psychology

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