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  • 3 - The development of children's shape and weight concerns

  • from Part II - Scientific underpinnings
  • Edited by Tony Jaffa
  • Brett McDermott, University of Queensland
  • Book:
    Eating Disorders in Children and Adolescents
    Published online:
    02 December 2009
    Print publication:
    14 December 2006, pp 32-44

  • Summary

    Body shape, weight and eating concerns are at the heart of the psychopathology of eating disorders. This chapter aims to consider what we currently know about the development of children's shape and weight concerns and associated body dissatisfaction. One of the most commonly used methods for describing body dissatisfaction in children is a scale of outline body shapes. Peers are hugely influential in the context of children's self-perception, taking over from parents at an increasingly early age. There are several ways that talking about weight and dieting ('fat talk') could be functional in adolescent peer group interactions. Peer behaviour in relation to children's weight concerns and control deserves far more attention than it has so far received. The chapter considers the early presentation of both shape and weight concerns and their main determinants. More obvious is children's distaste for overweight, a reflection of a salient cultural view.