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Communication with parents and body satisfaction in college students
Emiko Taniguchi1, R Kelly Aune
1a Department of Communicology , University of Hawai'i at Mānoa , Honolulu , Hawai'i.
Objective:
This study examined how communication with parents is related to college students' body satisfaction.
Participants And Methods:
Participants (N = 134; 58 males and 76 females) completed a survey in March 2011 assessing body satisfaction and perceptions of communication with mothers and fathers.
Results:
Daughters' body satisfaction was negatively correlated with perceptions of problematic communication with mothers and fathers. Sons' body satisfaction was positively correlated with open communication with their mothers and negatively correlated with problematic communication with their mothers.
Conclusions:
Findings indicated problematic communication with mothers was the most powerful predictor of daughters' body satisfaction, whereas open communication with mothers was the best predictor of sons' body satisfaction.
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