It is important to take note that the present study was an attempt to investigate the effects of parenting styles on college students� eating attitudes because it was argued that literature is lacking in investigating this angle as far as parenting styles are concerned. Thus, in the present study, the researcher relied on empirical evidence suggesting that the way parents care for their children has a significant influence on their children�s psychological well-being, even as they have already grown older (Manzeske & Stright, 2009). In the present study, Attachment Theory is also used, which also suggests parents influence children even if they no longer live with their parents (Bretherton & Munholland, 1999).
What empircle evidence did she rely on for her study? How did she use Attachment Theory in her study? Did she research attachment theory? If it was more of a theoretical underpinning for her study, maybe she could clarify.
This relationship was then found to be insignificant after personal well-being was factored in as a covariate. In this sense, it is also possible that there are variables that are more significantly related to eating attitudes than parenting styles, especially among college students.
Which relationship? Is she talking about Lucas’ study or hers?
In this sense, it is also possible that there are variables that are more significantly related to eating attitudes than parenting styles, especially among college students.
Moreover, it is also possible that there are other variables that may mediate the relationship between parenting styles and eating attitudes among college students because Aldhafri (2011) found that self-efficacy and physical self-concept may mediate the link between parents� influence and adolescents� well-being.
Her last sentence in the paragraph just prior to the paragraph that begins "Moreover,…" don’t seem to flow well together. Since the sentence that begins "In this sense…" seems to be more of an introduction to a paragraph.
In the paragraph "The composition of the sample of respondents in the present study in terms of ethnicity is also noteworthy." She suggests that her findings might be due to having 14% non-Caucasian respondents, but 14% does not seem sufficient to produce such divergent results. Plus, she could have analyzed her data according to ethnicity to determine whether she would have had significant results if she excluded non-Caucasians from her data set, but I would not want her to conduct additional analyses at this point, so she might want to omit that paragraph or acknowledge that the impact of 14% is likely to be minimal.
Despite not being supported by previous literature about the eating attitudes of college students, it is possible that males have higher eating attitude scores than females do because males lack social support in terms of relating their emotional issues involved with body dissatisfaction and physical attractiveness. Van Lone (2002) found that social contagion appears to be present among female college students, suggesting that females belonging to the same peer cluster tend to have the same eating attitudes. It is possible that male college students do not share the same social effects that females do. For the female respondents, it is also possible that they responded to social desirability pressure to appear to be �normal and healthy� in their eating habits and attitudes, thereby leading to scores that may be concealing their true eating attitudes. There is also possibility that the female respondents did not answer truthfully regarding their negative eating attitudes because of a social stigma against women who have negative eating attitudes and habits (Mond, Robertson-Smith, & Vetere, 2006).
Isn’t is also possible that males’ reports were influence by recent, increased social acceptance, and perhaps the promotion, of males focusing more on their weight?
Another limitation to the study was the inability to determine if eating attitudes vary across the different parenting styles. This was because the Parental Authority Questionnaire enabled respondents to produce three sets of scores, which means they have a score for each parenting style. Because the data were interval, the respondents were not categorized regarding to which perceived parenting style each respondent belongs. Moreover, categorizing the respondents into particular parenting styles may result to inequality of variances, which may violate the assumptions for conducting statistical testing.
This paragraph seems to be her only mention on how the participants were disproportionately divided across the three types of parenting styles. This limitation is quite significant, because she essentially was only able to compare permissive parenting styles with eating attitudes. I think this topic should be covered much earlier in her discussion and be stated much more clearly and prominently.
Again, in recommendations for research she mentions: These possibilities include the use of a self-report questionnaire, the possibility of mediating variables such as peer influence and body dissatisfaction, and the composition of the sample in terms of ethnicity.
However, ethnicity at 14% seems to be a relatively small variable. Plus, she could have done analyses to rule out ethnicity as a factor. (In other words, were her findings significant if non-Caucasians were removed from her sample), so she should not suggest that her non-significant findings are due to ethnicity unless she did analyses to be certain that they were.
Also, I thought that she was going to discuss how her results might be attribatable to the fact that she studied a non-eating disordered population. This aspect is important to mention since she might have had diffierent results in an eating disordered population, and I didn’t see where she wrote about it.
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