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Record W4406452070 · doi:10.1016/j.erap.2024.101044

Perceived body acceptance by parents, body image, and intuitive eating in adolescent girls: A look at each parent's role

2025· article· en· W4406452070 on OpenAlex

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aboutThe title or abstract carries a Canadian signal from the geographic lexicon.

Bibliographic record

VenueEuropean Review of Applied Psychology · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldPsychology
TopicEating Disorders and Behaviors
Canadian institutionsUniversité LavalUniversité du Québec à Trois-Rivières
FundersCanada Research Chairs
KeywordsPsychologyDevelopmental psychologyBody shapeEating behaviorSocial psychologyMedicineObesity

Abstract

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The perception that one's body is accepted by others is crucial in the development and maintenance of a positive body image and healthy eating behaviors in youth. However, no research has examined the relationship between perceived body acceptance by each parent and adolescent girls’ relationships with their bodies and with food. The present research examined whether perceived body acceptance by the father and by the mother are independently related to different facets of adolescent girls’ body image (i.e., self-objectification, body appreciation, and social appearance comparison) and to their intuitive eating. Three hundred and forty-four adolescent girls from Quebec (Canada) aged 14 to 17 years completed an online questionnaire. Perceived body acceptance by the father and by the mother were both positively and uniquely associated with adolescents’ intuitive eating and body appreciation, and negatively related to self-objectification (i.e., perceiving their bodies as objects that exist for the gaze of others). Perceived body acceptance by the mother (but not by the father) was also negatively related to social appearance comparison. Results also showed that self-objectification, social appearance comparison, and body appreciation partially mediated the association between perceived body acceptance by each parent and intuitive eating. Finally, results showed that perceived body acceptance by the father and by the mother interact in the prediction of body appreciation. Perceived body acceptance by each parent is related to indicators of a positive body image and a healthy relationship with food in adolescent girls. The results of this study, conducted among 344 adolescent girls (14–17 years old) in the province of Quebec, show that perceived body acceptance by each parent relates to several indicators of a positive relationship with the body and food. Adolescents who perceive that their parents accept their bodies are likely to report greater appreciation of their bodies, less tendency toward self-objectification, less tendency toward social appearance comparison, and more intuitive eating behaviors. The results support the importance of examining both maternal and paternal body acceptance given their additive and interactive effects. La perception que leur corps est accepté par leurs proches est un élément crucial pour le développement et le maintien d’une image corporelle positive et d’une saine relation avec la nourriture chez les jeunes. Or, le rôle que joue l’acceptation corporelle de la part de chacun des parents quant à la relation que les adolescentes entretiennent avec leur corps et avec la nourriture n’a pas encore été documenté. La présente recherche vise à examiner si l’acceptation corporelle provenant du père et celle provenant de la mère, telles que perçues par les adolescentes, sont indépendamment liées à différentes facettes de l’image corporelle (c.-à-d., l’auto-objectification, l’appréciation de son corps et la comparaison sociale liée à l’apparence) et à l’alimentation intuitive des adolescentes. Trois cent quarante-quatre adolescentes québécoises âgées de 14 à 17 ans ont répondu à un questionnaire en ligne. La perception de l’acceptation corporelle provenant du père et celle provenant de la mère étaient toutes deux positivement associées à l’alimentation intuitive et à l’appréciation corporelle, en plus d’être négativement reliées à la tendance à l’auto-objectification (c.-à-d., percevoir son corps comme un objet qui existe pour le regard des autres). La perception de l’acceptation corporelle provenant de la mère (mais pas celle provenant du père) était également reliée négativement à la comparaison sociale liée à l’apparence. Les résultats montrent également que la tendance à l’auto-objectification, la comparaison sociale liée à l’apparence et l’appréciation corporelle médient partiellement la relation entre la perception de l’acceptation corporelle de chaque parent et l’alimentation intuitive. Enfin, les résultats ont montré que la perception de l’acceptation corporelle par le père et par la mère interagissent dans la prédiction de l’appréciation corporelle. La perception de l’acceptation corporelle provenant de chacun des parents est liée à des indicateurs d’une image corporelle positive et d’une saine relation avec la nourriture chez leur adolescente. Les résultats de cette étude, réalisée auprès de 344 adolescentes québécoises (14–17 ans), montrent que la perception d’acceptation corporelle de la part de chaque partent est liée à différents indicateurs d’une relation positive avec le corps et la nourriture. Les adolescentes qui perçoivent que leurs parents acceptent leur corps sont susceptibles de rapporter une plus grande appréciation de leur corps, une plus faible auto-objectification, une plus faible tendance à la comparaison sociale liée à l’apparence et des comportements alimentaires plus intuitifs. Les résultats soutiennent l’importance d’examiner séparément l’acceptation corporelle de la mère et celle du père puisqu’elles ont des effets indépendants.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.426
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.017
GPT teacher head0.344
Teacher spread0.328 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it