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Dieting among Adolescent Girls and Their Mothers: An Interpretive Study

Jennifer Paff Ogle

Colorado State University

Mary Lynn Damhorst

Iowa State University

This interpretive study focused on mothers’ and their adolescent daughters’ diet-related thoughts and behaviors and explored the possibility that daughters model their mothers’ patterns. In-depth interviews were conducted with 20 mothers and their adolescent daughters. Grounded theory analysis revealed that mothers’diet-related experiences were complex, varying across the life span. Among daughters, three types of dieters emerged: nondieters; short-term, low-commitment dieters; and serious dieters. Both mothers and daughters distinguished between "going on a diet" and "watching what you eat." Mother and daughter dieting and watching patterns varied in terms of content, duration, and motive. Findings indicated that modeling effects alone cannot adequately explain diet-related patterns of mothers and their daughters. Intervening variables, such as a daughter’s degree of identification with her mother or a mother’s verbal reinforcement of a modeled attitude, may affect whether a child models a given maternal behavior.

Family and Consumer Sciences Research Journal, Vol. 28, No. 4, 428-462 (2000)
DOI: 10.1177/1077727X00284002
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