Parent–Infant Attachment Insecurity and Emotional Eating in Adolescence: Mediation through Emotion Suppression and Alexithymia
Abstract
:1. Introduction
1.1. Parent-Infant Attachment and EE
1.2. Measures of Parent-Infant Attachment
1.3. Mediators between Parent-Infant Attachment and EE
1.4. Aims of the Present Study
2. Method
2.1. Participants
2.2. Procedure
2.3. Measures
2.3.1. The Shortened Strange Situation Procedure (SSSP)
2.3.2. The Shortened Version of the Attachment Q-Set (S-AQS)
2.3.3. Emotion Regulation Strategy of Suppression of Emotions (12 Years)
2.3.4. Alexithymia (12 Years)
2.3.5. Emotional Eating (EE; 12 Years and 16 Years)
2.3.6. Parental Educational Level
2.3.7. Parental Caregiving Quality (15 and 28 Months of Age)
2.4. Data Analyses
3. Results
3.1. Preliminary Analyses
Correlations
3.2. Serial Multiple Mediation Analyses
3.2.1. Emotional Eating at 12 Years
Attachment Security as Measured by the SSSP
Attachment Security as Measured by the S-AQS
Parental Caregiving
3.2.2. Emotional Eating at 16 Years
Attachment Security as Measured by the SSSP
Attachment Security as Measured by the S-AQS
Parental Caregiving Quality
4. Discussion
5. Conclusions
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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Attachment Security (SSSP) | Attachment Security (S-AQS) | Suppression of Emotions | Alexithymia | Emotional Eating | Child Sex | Parental Educational Level | |
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Attachment security (SSSP) | – | ||||||
Attachment security (S-AQS) | 0.27 ** (0.20) | – | |||||
Suppression of emotions | −0.30 ** (−0.25 *) | −0.26 ** (−0.20) | – | ||||
Alexithymia | 0.04 (0.01) | −0.14 (−0.17) | 0.33 ** (0.37 ***) | – | |||
Emotional eating | 0.10 (0.14) | 0.07 (0.28 **) | 0.12 (−0.14) | 0.44 *** (0.21 *) | – | ||
Child sex | 0.15 (0.12) | 0.15 (0.16) | −0.08 (−0.08) | 0.18 (0.18) | 0.15 (0.41 ***) | – | |
Parental educational level | 0.06 (−0.00) | 0.01 (−0.06) | −0.08 (0.00) | −0.03 (−0.06) | 0.14 (0.21 *) | −0.12 (−0.14) | – |
M | 0.6 (0.7) | 0.3 (0.3) | 3.3 (3.2) | 9.4 (9.4) | 1.7 (2.2) | 1.5 (1.5) | 5.2 (5.2) |
Standard Deviation | 0.5 (0.5) | 0.3 (0.2) | 1.2 (1.2) | 2.3 (2.3) | 0.7 (1.0) | 0.5 (0.5) | 1.6 (1.6) |
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Beijers, R.; Miragall, M.; van den Berg, Y.; Konttinen, H.; van Strien, T. Parent–Infant Attachment Insecurity and Emotional Eating in Adolescence: Mediation through Emotion Suppression and Alexithymia. Nutrients 2021, 13, 1662. https://doi.org/10.3390/nu13051662
Beijers R, Miragall M, van den Berg Y, Konttinen H, van Strien T. Parent–Infant Attachment Insecurity and Emotional Eating in Adolescence: Mediation through Emotion Suppression and Alexithymia. Nutrients. 2021; 13(5):1662. https://doi.org/10.3390/nu13051662
Chicago/Turabian StyleBeijers, Roseriet, Marta Miragall, Yvonne van den Berg, Hanna Konttinen, and Tatjana van Strien. 2021. "Parent–Infant Attachment Insecurity and Emotional Eating in Adolescence: Mediation through Emotion Suppression and Alexithymia" Nutrients 13, no. 5: 1662. https://doi.org/10.3390/nu13051662