Mothers, Peers, and Perceived Pressure to Diet Among Japanese Adolescent Girls.
- Resource Type
- Article
- Authors
- Mukai, Takayo
- Source
- Journal of Research on Adolescence (Lawrence Erlbaum); 1996, Vol. 6 Issue 3, p309-324, 16p, 3 Charts
- Subject
- Peer pressure
Eating disorders in adolescence
Teenage girls
Mother-daughter relationship
Questionnaires
- Language
- ISSN
- 10508392
This study compared the relative impact of maternal and peer influences on eating problems among Japanese adolescent girls. A total of 827 students in Grades 7 through 11 completed questionnaires assessing eating problems, sensitivity to social evaluation, and the contents and levels of interaction with their mothers and their peers in regard to eating and dieting. At higher grade levels there was a greater relative impact of peer interactions on the girls' eating problems. The difference between Grades 9 and 10 was most pronounced in that for girls in Grades 10 and 11 peer influence was stronger than maternal influence, whereas maternal influence was stronger than peer influence among girls in Grades 8 and 9. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]