Maternal parenting styles as perceived by female adolescents with eating disorder symptoms

• Main Author: Chua, Alellette
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Animo Repository 1997
• Subjects: Parenting; Eating disorders in adolescence; Mother and child; Parent and teenager; Adolescents; Filipino; Counseling; Counseling Psychology
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/etd_masteral/1846
• Institution: De La Salle University

This study identifies female adolescents with eating disorder symptoms and examines the relationship between maternal parenting style and eating disorder symptoms. The study used a descriptive-correlational design. The stratified random sampling was used to gather 85 female adolescents with ages 13-17 years and who were all attending private high school in Metro Manila. Eating Disorder Inventory-2 (EDI-2) and Parental Bonding Instrument (PBI) were used to gather data. The Pearson Product Moment Correlation was used to establish the relationship between eating disorder symptoms and parenting style. The findings showed that there is an existence of eating disorder symptoms among female adolescents. Of 85 subjects, 76 percent showed eating disorder symptoms while 24 percent did not exhibit disorder symptoms. Of 65 female adolescents with eating disorder symptoms, 84.62 percent perceived their mothers as having authoritative parenting style. All female adolescents without eating disorder symptoms perceived their mothers as having authoritative parenting style. There were no significant relationships between authoritative maternal parenting style and the following eating disorder symptoms: maturity fears (r=.08 p.05), bulimia (r=.13, p.05), interoceptive awareness (r=.10,p.05), ineffectiveness (r=.18,p.05), drive for thinness (r=.10, p.05),0 interpersonal distrust (r=.21, p.05), perfectionism (r=.11, p.05), and body dissatisfaction (r=10, p.05). There were no significant relationships between autocratic maternal parenting style and the following eating disorder symptoms: maturity fears (r=.13, p.05), bulimia (r=.15, p.05), interoceptive awareness (r=.45, p.05), ineffectiveness (r=.41, p.05), drive for thinness (r=.08, p.05), interpersonal distrust (r=.57,p.05), perfectionism (r=.40, p.05), and body dissatisfaction (r=.17, p.05).It can be concluded that Filipino female adolescents are experiencing eating disorder symptoms and that maternal parenting style is not a factor in the development of eating disorder symptoms. Further studies should be made on the factors that may influence the development of eating disorder symptoms such as perceptual, developmental, socio-cultural, and personality factors.