What if high expectations feel good? Perceived parental expectations, their meanings, and bulimic symptoms in Black and White college women

This study aimed to test an interactive model of perceived parental expectations and the meaning of those expectations in relation to bulimic symptoms in Black (n=97) and White (n=179) college women. Black young women reported higher parental expectations and attached more positive meanings to high parental expectations, in comparison to their White peers. There was an interactive effect for Black young women such that, in the context of...