Parenting and schema domains as predictors of intuitive and dysregulated eating in emerging adults

IF 4.2 2区医学 Q1 BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES

Appetite Pub Date : 2026-04-01 Epub Date: 2025-12-06 DOI:10.1016/j.appet.2025.108413

Deniz Gözde Kılçık , Osman Nejat Akfırat

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Abstract

Emerging adulthood is a period when enduring eating patterns consolidate and guide daily food choices. This cross-sectional study examined whether perceived parenting and early maladaptive schema (EMS) domains were associated with intuitive eating, cognitive restraint, emotional eating, and uncontrolled eating among Turkish emerging adults (N = 446). Participants completed validated measures of intuitive and dysregulated eating, maternal/paternal warmth, overprotection, rejection, and five EMS domains. Hierarchical regressions entered demographics and lifestyle factors (Step 1), parenting (Step 2), and EMS domains (Step 3). Exploratory mediation models tested indirect pathways from parenting to eating through EMS domains while adjusting for the same covariates.

Men reported higher intuitive eating, whereas women reported greater restraint and emotional eating. Dieting history, higher body mass index, and weight dissatisfaction were consistently associated with lower intuitive eating and higher dysregulated patterns. Parenting contributed modestly to model fit, whereas EMS domains accounted for additional, larger variance. Mediation analyses indicated three indirect pathways: higher maternal warmth related to lower Impaired Autonomy/Performance (IAP), which was associated with higher intuitive eating; higher maternal rejection related to higher IAP, which was associated with greater emotional eating; and higher maternal overprotection related to higher IAP and Other-Directedness, which were associated with greater uncontrolled eating.

In final models, maternal warmth related positively to intuitive eating, while IAP—and for uncontrolled eating, Other-Directedness—showed robust links with dysregulated eating. Findings support a layered pattern of associations in which caregiving climates and enduring schemas make separable contributions to appetite-related regulation.

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育儿和图式域作为新兴成人直觉和失调饮食的预测因素。

刚进入成年期是一段持续的饮食模式巩固并指导日常食物选择的时期。本横断面研究调查了土耳其初生成人（N = 446）中感知到的父母教养和早期适应不良图式（EMS）域是否与直觉性饮食、认知约束、情绪性饮食和不受控制的饮食有关。参与者完成了直觉和失调饮食、母亲/父亲温暖、过度保护、拒绝和五个EMS域的有效测量。分层回归进入人口统计和生活方式因素（步骤1），父母（步骤2）和EMS领域（步骤3）。探索性中介模型在调整相同协变量的同时，测试了从养育到饮食通过EMS域的间接途径。男性更倾向于凭直觉进食，而女性更倾向于克制和情绪化进食。节食史、较高的体重指数和体重不满意始终与较低的直觉饮食和较高的失调模式相关。父母对模型拟合的贡献不大，而EMS领域对模型拟合的影响更大。中介分析显示了三个间接途径：较高的母亲温暖与较低的受损自主/绩效（IAP）相关，后者与较高的直觉进食相关；较高的母亲排斥与较高的IAP相关，后者与更多的情绪化进食有关；较高的母亲过度保护与较高的IAP和其他定向有关，后者与更大的不受控制的饮食有关。在最后的模型中，母亲的温暖与直觉性饮食呈正相关，而iap——以及不受控制的饮食，他者直接性——与失调的饮食表现出强烈的联系。研究结果支持了一种分层的关联模式，在这种模式中，照顾气候和持久模式对食欲相关调节的贡献是可分离的。

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Appetite 医学-行为科学

CiteScore

9.10

自引率

11.10%

发文量

566

审稿时长

13.4 weeks

期刊介绍： Appetite is an international research journal specializing in cultural, social, psychological, sensory and physiological influences on the selection and intake of foods and drinks. It covers normal and disordered eating and drinking and welcomes studies of both human and non-human animal behaviour toward food. Appetite publishes research reports, reviews and commentaries. Thematic special issues appear regularly. From time to time the journal carries abstracts from professional meetings. Submissions to Appetite are expected to be based primarily on observations directly related to the selection and intake of foods and drinks; papers that are primarily focused on topics such as nutrition or obesity will not be considered unless they specifically make a novel scientific contribution to the understanding of appetite in line with the journal's aims and scope.