Associations Among Parent-Adolescent Relationships, Pubertal Growth, Dieting, and Body Image in Young Adolescent Girls: A Short-Term Longitudinal Study

This investigation examined the degree to which pubertal development and parent-adolescent relationships were associated with girls' current and future dieting and body image. Via longitudinal path models, we also separately tested the possibility of bidirectional effects between parental relationships and dieting and parental relationships and body image. Early adolescent girls (N = 127) who were predominantly of normal weight, were seen for 2...