Journal article
The relationship between anxiety, coping, and disordered-eating attitudes in adolescent military-dependents at high-risk for excess weight gain
Military psychology, Vol.ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print), pp.1-12
06/23/2022
DOI: 10.1080/08995605.2022.2083448
PMCID: PMC10012895
PMID: 36968637
Abstract
Adolescent military-dependents are an understudied population who face unique stressors due to their parents' careers. Research suggests tat adolescent military-dependents report more anxiety and disordered-eating than their civilian counterparts. While anxiety symptoms predict the onset and worsening of disordered-eating attitudes, the mechanisms underlying this relationship remain unclear. One factor that may underlie this relationship, and be particularly relevant for military-dependent youth, is coping. Therefore, we examined adolescent military-dependents (N = 136; 14.5 ± 1.5 years; 59.6% female; BMI-z: 1.9 ± 0.4) who were at-risk for adult obesity and binge-eating disorder due to an age- and sex-adjusted BMI ≥ 85
th
percentile and loss-of-control eating and/or elevated anxiety. Participants completed an interview assessing disordered-eating attitudes and questionnaires on anxiety symptoms and coping strategies at a single time point. Bootstrapping models were conducted to examine the indirect paths between anxiety symptoms and disordered-eating attitudes through five coping subscales (aggression, distraction, endurance, self-distraction, and stress-recognition). Adjusting for relevant covariates, no significant indirect paths through the coping subscales (ps > .05) were found in any models. General coping, nonspecific to eating, may not be a pathway between anxiety symptoms and disordered-eating attitudes among adolescents. Future research should examine other potential mediators of this relationship.Abbreviations: BMI-z, BMI standard deviation score, adjusted for age and sex; LECI-C, Life Events and Coping Inventory - Coping
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- The relationship between anxiety, coping, and disordered-eating attitudes in adolescent military-dependents at high-risk for excess weight gain
- Creators
- Senait Solomon - Uniformed Services University of the Health SciencesLisa M. Shank - Uniformed Services University of the Health SciencesJason M. Lavender - United States UniversityM. K. Higgins Neyland - USUJulia Gallager-Teske - United States UniversityBethelhem Markos - United States UniversityHannah Haynes - United States UniversityHannah Repke - United States UniversityAlexander J. Rice - United States UniversityTracy Sbrocco - Uniformed Services University of the Health SciencesDenise E. Wilfley - Washington University in St. LouisNatasha A. Schvey - Uniformed Services University of the Health SciencesSarah Jorgensen - University of IowaBrian Ford - United States UniversityCaitlin B. Ford - Alexander T. Augusta Military Medical CenterMark Haigney - United States UniversityDavid A. Klein - United States UniversityJeffrey Quinlan - University of IowaMarian Tanofsky-Kraff - National Institutes of Health
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Military psychology, Vol.ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print), pp.1-12
- Publisher
- Routledge
- DOI
- 10.1080/08995605.2022.2083448
- PMID
- 36968637
- PMCID
- PMC10012895
- ISSN
- 0899-5605
- eISSN
- 1532-7876
- Grant note
- DOI: 10.13039/100000062, name: National institute of diabetes and digestive and kidney diseases, award: 1R01DK104115-01; DOI: 10.13039/100009898, name: Defense Health Agency, award: HU00012120008
- Language
- English
- Electronic publication date
- 06/23/2022
- Academic Unit
- Family and Community Medicine
- Record Identifier
- 9984297335302771
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