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Overview

Dara R. Musher-Eizenman is affiliated with Bowling Green State University in the United States and has contributed extensively to the fields of psychology and medicine. Their research primarily focuses on eating behaviors, obesity, and psychological well-being, with specific attention to clinical psychology and public health.

The scientist's work covers several key topics, including:

  • Eating Disorders and Behaviors
  • Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet
  • Culinary Culture and Tourism
  • Child Nutrition and Feeding Issues
  • Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction
  • COVID-19 and Mental Health
  • Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations

Several notable publications illustrate their research contributions. Recent papers include:

  • "A look at the intergenerational associations between self-compassion, body esteem, and emotional eating within dyads of mothers and their adult daughters," 2020, published in Body Image
  • "The interaction of negative psychological well-being and picky eating in relation to disordered eating in undergraduate students," 2021, published in Eating Behaviors
  • "Consequences of Picky Eating in College Students," 2021, published in Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior
  • "From dieting to delight: Parenting strategies to promote children's positive body image and healthy relationship with food," 2021, published in Canadian Psychology/Psychologie canadienne
  • "'Quarantine 15': Pre-registered findings on stress and concern about weight gain before/during COVID-19 in relation to caregivers' eating pathology," 2021, published in Appetite

Musher-Eizenman frequently publishes in journals such as:

  • Appetite
  • Body Image
  • Journal of Pediatric Nursing
  • Eating Behaviors
  • Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior

Their collaboration network includes several frequent co-authors:

  • Lauren A. Dial
  • Emma I. Studer-Perez
  • Amy K. Jordan
  • Wesley R. Barnhart
  • Maria A. Kalantzis

Their research engages deep clinical psychology aspects related to eating and health behavior, combining insights from public health and nutrition science fields. They have contributed to understanding the dynamics of picky eating, emotional eating within family dyads, and psychological impact factors during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Best Publications

  • Comprehensive Feeding Practices Questionnaire: Validation of a New Measure of Parental Feeding Practices

    Dara Musher-Eizenman;Shayla Holub

  • Fundamental constructs in food parenting practices: A content map to guide future research

    Amber E. Vaughn;Dianne S. Ward;Jennifer O. Fisher;Myles S. Faith

  • Body Size Stigmatization in Preschool Children: The Role of Control Attributions

    Dara R. Musher-Eizenman;Shayla C. Holub;Amy Barnhart Miller;Sara E. Goldstein

  • Eating when depressed, anxious, bored, or happy: Are emotional eating types associated with unique psychological and physical health correlates?

    Abby Braden;Dara Musher-Eizenman;Tanya Watford;Elizabeth Emley

  • Child and parent characteristics related to parental feeding practices. A cross-cultural examination in the US and France.

    Dara R. Musher-Eizenman;Blandine de Lauzon-Guillain;Shayla C. Holub;Emeline Leporc

  • Social-Cognitive Mediators of the Relation of Environmental and Emotion Regulation Factors to Children's Aggression.

    Dara R. Musher-Eizenman;Paul Boxer;Stephanie Danner;Eric F. Dubow

  • Eating when bored: revision of the emotional eating scale with a focus on boredom.

    Afton M. Koball;Molly R. Meers;Amy Storfer-Isser;Sarah E. Domoff

  • What are children thankful for? An archival analysis of gratitude before and after the attacks of September 11

    Anne K. Gordon;Dara R. Musher-Eizenman;Shayla C. Holub;John Dalrymple

  • Drive for thinness and drive for muscularity: opposite ends of the continuum or separate constructs?

    Courtney C Galliger Kelley;Jennie M Neufeld;Dara R Musher-Eizenman

  • Self-objectification and ideal body shape for men and women.

    Marissa E. Wagner Oehlhof;Dara R. Musher-Eizenman;Jennie M. Neufeld;Jessica C. Hauser

  • Food consumption by young children: A function of parental feeding goals and practices

    Allison E. Kiefner-Burmeister;Debra A. Hoffmann;Molly R. Meers;Afton M. Koball

  • Attitude and peer influences on adolescent substance use: The moderating effect of age, sex, and substance

    Dara R. Musher-Eizenman;Shayla C. Holub;Mitzi Arnett

  • The narrow range of acceptable body types of preschoolers and their mothers

    Dara R Musher-Eizenman;Shayla C Holub;Laura Edwards-Leeper;Anna V Persson

  • Exposure to "low-level" aggression in school: associations with aggressive behavior, future expectations, and perceived safety.

    Paul Boxer;Laura Edwards-Leeper;Sara E. Goldstein;Dara Musher-Eizenman

  • Psychosocial functioning and physical symptoms in heart failure patients: a within-individual approach.

    Robert A Carels;Dara Musher-Eizenman;Holly Cacciapaglia;Carlos I Pérez-Benı́tez

  • Developmental issues in school-based aggression prevention from a social-cognitive perspective.

    Paul Boxer;Sara E. Goldstein;Dara Musher-Eizenman;Eric F. Dubow;Eric F. Dubow

  • Weight bias in graduate school admissions.

    Jacob M. Burmeister;Allison E. Kiefner;Robert A. Carels;Dara R. Musher-Eizenman

  • Parental Feeding Practices in the United States and in France: Relationships with Child's Characteristics and Parent's Eating Behavior

    Blandine de Lauzon-Guillain;Dara Musher-Eizenman;Emeline Leporc;Shayla Holub

  • The impact of a prejudice-prevention television program on young children’s ideas about race

    Anna Persson;Dara R. Musher-Eizenman

  • Perceived control and academic performance: A comparison of high- and low-performing children on within-person change patterns

    Dara R. Musher-Eizenman;John R. Nesselroade;Bernhard Schmitz

Frequent Co-Authors

Eric F. Dubow
Eric F. Dubow Bowling Green State University
Paul Boxer
Paul Boxer Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Robert A. Carels
Robert A. Carels East Carolina University
Thomas G. Power
Thomas G. Power Washington State University
Sheryl O. Hughes
Sheryl O. Hughes Baylor College of Medicine
John R. Nesselroade
John R. Nesselroade University of Virginia

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