IJERPH, Vol. 19, Pages 8659: Dyadic Predictors of Child Body Shame in a Polish and Italian Sample

IJERPH, Vol. 19, Pages 8659: Dyadic Predictors of Child Body Shame in a Polish and Italian Sample International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health doi: 10.3390/ijerph19148659 Authors: Kamila Czepczor-Bernat Justyna Modrzejewska Adriana Modrzejewska Emanuela Calandri Silvia Gattino Chiara Rollero The present study aimed at assessing the predictors (related to the functioning of a parent-child dyad) of child body shame. Therefore, in the main analysis we examined relationships among child body shame, child perfectionism, child body dissatisfaction, parent body shame, parent perfectionism, and parent body dissatisfaction. In our main hypothesis we assumed that higher levels of the abovementioned parent functioning-related variables would be associated with higher child body shame after accounting for the effects of the foregoing child functioning-related variables. The analysis finally included complete data from 420 participants, i.e., a 115 Polish and 95 Italian parent-child dyad. Participants completed: (a) child: the Objectified Body Consciousness Scale for Youth, the Child-Adolescent Perfectionism Scale, the Children’s Body Image Scale/the Figure Rating Scale; (b) parent: the Objectified Body Consciousness Scale, the Frost Multidimensional Perfectionism Scale, and the Contour Drawing Rating Scale. The results of a correlational analysis show that in both the Polish and Italian samples, the higher the level of child body shame...
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