Parental styles are associated with eating disorder symptoms, anxiety, interpersonal difficulties, and nucleus accumbens response.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Eating disorders (EDs) typically emerge during adolescence. Parental bonding has a lasting impact on a child's mental health during those developmentally critical years. There remains uncertainty over whether parental bonding is a risk factor for developing or maintaining specifically EDs or, rather, general psychopathology and the associated underlying brain function.

Methods

Forty-one young adult healthy control individuals (HC, 26.6 ± 3.5 years) and 46 individuals with EDs (25 with anorexia nervosa, AN, 22.8 ± 6.4 years, and 21 with bulimia nervosa, BN, 23.5 ± 4.2 years) completed the parental bonding instrument (PBI), assessments for anxiety, depression, and ED behaviors, and underwent a conditioning paradigm during brain imaging.

Results

In both groups

SUBMITTER: Sahota N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11365925 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature