To reconcile empirical inconsistencies in the relationship between emotionally-negative families and daughters’ abnormal eating, this article hypothesizes a critical moderating variable: daughters’ vulnerability to emotion contagion. Professor Michael Slepian and co-authors find that young women susceptible to emotion contagion may be at increased risk for eating disorders.
Global Family Enterprise
What’s the relationship between emotions and health in a family?
To reconcile empirical inconsistencies in the relationship between emotionally-negative families and daughters’ abnormal eating, this article hypothesizes a critical moderating variable: daughters’ vulnerability to emotion contagion. Professor Michael Slepian and co-authors find that young women susceptible to emotion contagion may be at increased risk for eating disorders.
