Journal articles: 'Body image in women. Eating disorders'

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de Bruin, A. P. (Karin), and Raôul R. D. Oudejans. "Athletes’ Body Talk: The Role of Contextual Body Image in Eating Disorders as Seen Through the Eyes of Elite Women Athletes." Journal of Clinical Sport Psychology 12, no. 4 (December 1, 2018): 675–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1123/jcsp.2018-0047.

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The aim of the study was to investigate if and how body image, taken from a contextual perspective, contributes to the eating disorder history. This qualitative study investigated the process of eating disorder development in eight elite women athletes in at-risk sports. The results showed that the relationship between eating disorder symptomatology and the sports environment was clearly recognized by the elite women athletes. Contextual body image, more specifically negative body-evaluations and upward body comparisons, appeared as an important factor in the development of eating disorders, particularly in the athletic context. It became clear that the two aesthetic and two endurance athletes as well as the two weight-class athletes in rowing described quite negative body evaluations in the context of sport, while some of them also recognized an impact of body image experiences in daily life. However, for both judokas, their eating disorder had nothing to do with their body image but was attributed to the weight-classes in their sport and accompanying weight making. Several unique trajectories and individual eating disorder histories were distinguished which confirms the value of taking a qualitative approach in investigating eating disorders in sport. We also discovered links between what the athletes had reported as contributors to their eating disorder history and how they told their stories by combining content analysis and narrative inquiry. Furthermore, the present study also highlights several critical aspects for prevention and treatment that should support sport federations and clinical sport psychologists in taking appropriate actions to deal more effectively with eating disorders in athletes.

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Yoon, Tae-Il, Esther Thorson, and Myoung-chun Lee. "Body Image Processing in Korean Adolescent and College-Aged Females." Communication and Culture in Korea 13, no. 1 (June 6, 2003): 141–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/japc.13.1.09yoo.

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Research on body image has neglected a number of factors that seem likely to influence individuals’ eating disorders. This study looks at eating disorder relationships with age, cultural background, physical and psychological factors, amount and type of media exposure, and body image processing (i.e., comparing and endorsing thin ideals). Survey results from a sample of 376 Korean adolescent and college-aged females confirmed the mediating effect body image processing had on eating disorder indicators. Although striking age differences were found in the relationship between media use and eating disorders, there were also similarities between the two age groups. Comparing and endorsing thin ideals played a more important role among adolescent girls than among college-aged women. Contrary to previous research reported in the U.S., exposure to television “thin drama” was not a significant predictor of Korean females’ body image disturbance. Instead, exposure to foreign media had direct and indirect impacts on eating disorders among Korean females. Implications of the age and cross-cultural differences were discussed.

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Sinnappan, Santhidran, Yen Jin Yee, Nair GV, and Sharon Wilson. "Slimming the body: slimming ads, body dissatisfaction and eating disorders." Jurnal Pengajian Media Malaysia 22, no. 2 (December 1, 2021): 77–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.22452/jpmm.vol22no2.6.

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This study aimed to examine the perceived effects of media exposure of body slimming advertisements on body dissatisfaction and the tendency for eating disorders in a sample of adult women in Malaysia. This study examined two aspects: (a) the level of media exposure to slimming advertisements (media exposure), and (b) the tendency of respondents to make body comparisons with models in slimming advertisements (media body comparisons). Participants were 419 young women (18 â€“ 39 years old) living in Kuala Lumpur. Correlation coefficients showed that media exposure and media body comparisons were positively associated with body dissatisfaction and eating disorders tendency. The findings suggest that mass media play a role by providing slim images that young women in Kuala Lumpur tend to emulate and adopt western cultural ideals of body image and the desire for a thinner body type.

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Grubb, Henry J., Marie I. Sellers, and Karen Waligroski. "Factors Related to Depression and Eating Disorders: Self-Esteem, Body Image, and Attractiveness." Psychological Reports 72, no. 3 (June 1993): 1003–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.2466/pr0.1993.72.3.1003.

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To test hypotheses that women suffering from some form of eating disorder would experience lower self-esteem and higher depression and that women with lower self-esteem and greater depression would rate their attractiveness lower and see themselves as heavier than less depressed individuals, 42 college undergraduate women were individually administered the Eating Disorders Inventory, Beck Depression Inventory, Coopersmith Self-esteem Inventory, and a Body Image/Attractiveness Perception Scale. A Pearson correlation indicated a substantial relation between scores on depression and scores on eating disorders, but nonsignificant values between self-esteem scores and scores on either eating disorders or on depression. Depression scores correlated significantly with rated body size, but not attractiveness, while self-esteem scores were significantly correlated with rated attractiveness, not body size. These results contradict literature on the relation between self-esteem and depression. Directions for additional research are discussed.

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Jarry, Josée L. "The Meaning of Body Image for Women with Eating Disorders." Canadian Journal of Psychiatry 43, no. 4 (May 1998): 367–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/070674379804300404.

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Objective: To propose a theoretical model accounting for the meaning and function of body image disturbances for individuals with eating disorders. This model departs from available conceptualizations of body image focused on attractiveness and emphasizes the role of body image preoccupations in the regulation of self-esteem and affect. Method: This model was developed on the basis of the author's clinical observations and the available empirical research. Results: Three main functions of body image are described. The first one, “affiliation,” consists of using one's appearance in the establishment of interpersonal relationships, both at the level of friendship and romance. The second function, “avoidance,” consists of using one's body image to avoid abuse, be it psychological, physical, or sexual. The third function, “expression,” consists of using one's body image to communicate to the self and others one's capacity for accomplishment or one's inner feelings of dejection. Conclusion: This model is designed to be a therapeutic tool within body image therapy. Body image therapy can be most effective when focused on the unique meaning of body image for each individual patient.

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Sharp, Clifford W. "Anorexia Nervosa and Depression in a Woman Blind since the Age of Nine Months." Canadian Journal of Psychiatry 38, no. 7 (September 1993): 469–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/070674379303800701.

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A woman aged 58 who has been blind since the age of nine months presented with major depression and a 40 year history of an eating disorder characterized by a restriction of food intake and body disparagement. The case is additional evidence that a specifically visual body image is not essential for the development of anorexia nervosa and supports the view that the concept of body image is unnecessary and unproductive in eating disorders. Greater emphasis should be placed on attitudes and feelings toward the body, and the possibility of an eating disorder should be considered in cases of older women with an atypical presentation.

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Martz, Denise M., Kevin B. Handley, and Richard M. Eisler. "The Relationship Between Feminine Gender Role Stress, Body Image, And Eating Disorders." Psychology of Women Quarterly 19, no. 4 (December 1995): 493–508. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1471-6402.1995.tb00088.x.

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The Feminine Gender Role Stress (FGRS) scale was used in two studies to determine whether eating disorders could be linked to the cognitive tendency among women to appraise specific situations as highly stressful because of rigid adherence to the traditional feminine gender role. Study 1 showed the FGRS scale could distinguish eating disorders from other psychiatric disorders in an inpatient setting and from normal college women. This suggests that women who have eating disorders report higher than usual levels of stress as a result of rigid adherence to the traditional feminine gender role. Study 2 looked at cardiovascular reactivity to a “feminine” (i.e., body image threat) and a control stressor and determined the FGRS scale could predict which women are threatened by feminine stressors. Results from these studies suggest feminine gender role stress may be the missing link between cultural values of femininity and vulnerability for eating disorders.

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Pahlavie, A. N., E. Probosari, A. F. A. Tsani, and F. F. Dieny. "The relationship between body image and social pressure on eating disorders in obese female students." Food Research 4, S3 (May 30, 2020): 75–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.26656/fr.2017.4(s3).s22.

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The trend of obesity is increasing among women of childbearing age, especially among female students. In addition to implications on health, obesity also has psychological implications that lead to eating disorders. Several factors that have influenced eating disorders in obese female students include age, body image, obesity level, stress level and social pressure. This study was aimed to analyze the factors that influence eating disorders (obesity level, body image, stress level and social pressure) in obese female students. A cross-sectional study design with ninety obese female students age 19-25 was conducted at Diponegoro University using the simple random sampling technique. Data of eight, height, waist circumference and hip circumference were collected. Eating disorders were measured by Eating Attitude Test-26 (EAT-26) and advanced modification questions adopted from the Eating Disorder Diagnostic Scale (EDDS). Body image was measured by the Body Shape Questionnaire (BSQ). The stress level was obtained by the Perceived Stress Scale (PSS) questionnaire. Social pressure was obtained using the Perceived Sociocultural Pressure Scale (PSPS) questionnaire. This data was analyzed on the Pearson correlation and multiple linear of regression. Significant relationships were observed between age (p = 0.009, r = 0.275), body image (p = 0.000, r = 0.649), and social pressure (p = 0,000, r = 0.461) on eating disorder. Otherwise, there was no significant relationship between obesity and stress level with eating disorder (p>0.05). This study can be concluded that body image and social pressure were the factors that influenced eating disorder in obese female students.

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Kim, Soyoung. "Eating disorders, body dissatisfaction, and self-esteem among South Korean women." Social Behavior and Personality: an international journal 46, no. 9 (September 7, 2018): 1537–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.2224/sbp.6801.

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Because of Western influences on Asian culture, Asian women value thinness, which has led to a rise in eating disorders among them. The prevalence of eating disorders has increased steadily among Asian women over the past 20 years. Body dissatisfaction, which is an attitude associated with body image involving the disdain of one's appearance and weight, is more common among women compared to men. Today, Korean women have greater body dissatisfaction than do U.S. women, a difference that originates prior to adolescence. I examined how the Western mainstream media influences women's self-image, determining that many women wish to look like celebrities. My findings supported cognitive-behavioral theorists' proposition that low self-esteem and body dissatisfaction contribute greatly to restrained eating. Rapid social change in South Korea, from Confucian to democratic values, may have exacerbated development of South Korean women's low self-esteem, body dissatisfaction, and eating disorders.

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Afonso Jr, Armando, Thales Ferro, Luis Anunciação, and J. Landeira-Fernandez. "Aspects Related to Body Image and Eating Behaviors in Healthy Brazilian Undergraduate Students." Global Journal of Educational Studies 4, no. 1 (March 12, 2018): 43. http://dx.doi.org/10.5296/gjes.v4i1.12541.

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The discrepancy between one’s actual body and the ideal body, especially among young adults, can lead to body dissatisfaction in both men and women, which is commonly accepted to be central to eating disorders. We explored aspects of body image and eating disorders in healthy Brazilian students (n = 219) using two standardized measures (Body Shape Questionnaire [BSQ-34] and Eating Attitudes Test [EAT-26]) and assessing height, weight, Body Mass Index (BMI), and the history of physical activity. We also analyzed the ability of one measure to predict another. Linear multiple regression was used to verify which variables best predicted the scale outcomes. The Least Absolute Shrinkage and Selection Operator (LASSO) was used for variable selection. The results suggested that women have a greater risk of body dissatisfaction and eating disorders. Both instruments had variables that significantly predicted each other’s results, whereas BMI was only associated with BSQ-34 scores. These findings broaden our understanding of eating disorders and body image.

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Kristjánsdóttir, Hafrún, Petra Sigurðardóttir, Sigurlaug Jónsdóttir, Guðlaug Þorsteinsdóttir, and Jose Saavedra. "Body Image Concern and Eating Disorder Symptoms Among Elite Icelandic Athletes." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 16, no. 15 (July 31, 2019): 2728. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16152728.

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The aim of this study was to analyse body image concerns and symptoms of eating disorders in elite Icelandic athletes according to their sex, and sport practiced. The participants were 755 athletes (24.8 ± 3.5 years in age) who compete at the highest possible level in Iceland. Representing 20 different sports, they were divided into five sports groups. Three questionnaires were used: the Body Shape Questionnaire to assess body image concerns; the Bulimia Test-Revised to assess the main symptoms of bulimia; and the Eating Disorder Examination Questionnaire to identify disordered eating attitudes and behaviours. A chi-squared test was used to analyse differences in prevalence of body image concern and eating disorders, a t-test for the differences between men and women, and a one-way ANOVA to compare the different sports. The main findings were that 17.9% of the athletes presented severe or moderate body image dissatisfaction, and 18.2% (25.3% of the women) were above the clinical cutoff for body image concern. Women’s scores were higher than men’s (whole sample and ball games) in all variables except restraint. These results seem to point to the existence of a real problem that athlete, coaches, doctors, and institutions need to take into account.

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Panchal, Dr Vaishali H. "Self Concept and Body Image among Women Suffering from Eating Disorder and Normal Women with Regards to Age." International Journal of Scientific Research 3, no. 2 (June 1, 2012): 500–502. http://dx.doi.org/10.15373/22778179/feb2014/166.

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Mwaba, Kelvin, and Nicolette Vanessa Roman. "Body Image Satisfaction Among a Sample of Black Female South African Students." Social Behavior and Personality: an international journal 37, no. 7 (August 1, 2009): 905–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.2224/sbp.2009.37.7.905.

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Numerous research studies have established a strong relationship between body dissatisfaction and eating disorders. As more and more young people in South Africa embrace Western values, the aspiration to attain the Western body ideal of beauty may be putting some women at risk of developing eating disorders. This study focused on body image satisfaction among a sample of 150 black South African female university students. Data were collected using a revised Body Shape Questionnaire (Cooper, Taylor, Cooper, & Fairburn, 1987). The results showed the majority of the women were satisfied with their body image. However, there was a minority who engaged in unhealthy eating behaviors. Implications of the findings are discussed.

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Martínez-Rodríguez, Alejandro, Jacobo Á. Rubio-Arias, Domingo J. Ramos-Campo, Cristina Reche-García, Belén Leyva-Vela, and Yolanda Nadal-Nicolás. "Psychological and Sleep Effects of Tryptophan and Magnesium-Enriched Mediterranean Diet in Women with Fibromyalgia." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 17, no. 7 (March 26, 2020): 2227. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17072227.

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Anxiety, mood disturbance, eating and sleep disorders, and dissatisfaction with body image are prevalent disorders in women with fibromyalgia. The authors of this study aimed to determine the effects of tryptophan (TRY) and magnesium-enriched (MG) Mediterranean diet on psychological variables (trait anxiety, mood state, eating disorders, self-image perception) and sleep quality in women with fibromyalgia (n = 22; 49 ± 5 years old). In this randomized, controlled trial, the participants were randomly assigned to the experimental group and the placebo group. The intervention group received a Mediterranean diet enriched with high doses of TRY and MG (60 mg of TRY and 60 mg of MG), whereas the control group received the standard Mediterranean diet. Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Questionnaire, Body Shape Questionnaire, State–Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI), Profile of Mood States (POMS-29) Questionnaire, Eating Attitudes Test-26, and Trait Anxiety Inventory were completed before and 16 weeks after the intervention. Significant differences were observed between groups after the intervention for the mean scores of trait anxiety (p = 0.001), self-image perception (p = 0.029), mood disturbance (p = 0.001), and eating disorders (p = 0.006). This study concludes that tryptophan and magnesium-enriched Mediterranean diet reduced anxiety symptoms, mood disturbance, eating disorders, and dissatisfaction with body image but did not improve sleep quality in women with fibromyalgia.

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HESSE-BIBER, SHARLENE, MARGARET MARINO, and DIANE WATTS-ROY. "A LONGITUDINAL STUDY OF EATING DISORDERS AMONG COLLEGE WOMEN." Gender & Society 13, no. 3 (June 1999): 385–408. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/089124399013003007.

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This study provides insight into factors that determine whether women in the college population who exhibit eating-disordered behavior during their college years recover during their postcollege years. The study assessed changes in the eating patterns of 21 women across a six-year time period, from sophomore year in college to two years postcollege. Eleven of the women get better during their postcollege year, whereas 10 of the women continue to struggle with disordered eating. The major differences between the two groups revolve around the relationship between autonomy and relation. Women who get better negotiate the tension between autonomy and relatedness and are more likely to have higher selfesteem based on a more positive self-concept; this, in turn, leads to healthier relationships with food and body image. Two factors that appear to influence this negotiation include (I) one's history of chronic physical or sexual abuse and (2) the quality of familial messages about food, body image, relationship, and autonomy.

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Hatmaker, Grace. "Boys With Eating Disorders." Journal of School Nursing 21, no. 6 (December 2005): 329–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/10598405050210060501.

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Although commonly associated with girls and women, eating disorders do not discriminate. School nurses need to be aware that male students also can suffer from the serious health effects of anorexia nervosa, bulimia, anorexia athletica, and eating disorders not otherwise specified. Sports that focus on leanness and weight limits can add to a growing boy’s risk of developing an eating disorder. Issues of body image and sexual development can complicate and can distort previously normal eating habits. Students may use powerful and dangerous drugs readily available via the Internet, including growth hormone, creatine, testosterone, and aminophyl-line, to build muscle and to eliminate fat, potentially causing serious health consequences. School nurses can partner with health and physical education teachers, coaches, school staff, parents, and students to identify and to support boys with eating disorders

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Al-Mutawa, Naif, Susannah-Joy Schuilenberg, Rumia Justine, and Sarah Kulsoom Taher. "Modesty, Objectification, and Disordered Eating Patterns: A Comparative Study between Veiled and Unveiled Muslim Women Residing in Kuwait." Medical Principles and Practice 28, no. 1 (November 19, 2018): 41–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000495567.

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Background: The common thread running through all forms of sexual objectification is the experience of being treated as a body (or collection of body parts) valued predominantly for its use to (or consumption by) others. If girls and women adopt a peculiar view of the self, an effect called self-objectification, this may contribute to depression, sexual dysfunction, and eating disorders. The objective of this study is to investigate the impact of modesty (in terms of veiling, i.e., hijab) on objectification, by others and by the self, body image, and behaviors indicative of eating disturbance in veiled and unveiled Muslim women in Kuwait. Methods: This is a community-based, cross-sectional study conducted through an online survey. The respondents were females living in Kuwait. Results: Unveiled women experienced more objectification by others than veiled women. There were no significant differences found between veiled and unveiled women in self-objectification and eating disorder symptomatology. There is a significant negative relationship between modesty of clothing and objectification by others. No significant relationship was found between modesty of clothing and the self-objectification and eating disorder scales. For the objectification by others scale, data show that there is a positive relationship between this scale and eating disorders. Eating disorders were found to have a negative relationship with self-objectification. Conclusion: The results of the study are significant as they clearly demonstrate a weak negative relationship between clothing preferences/affiliations and eating disorders.

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Jovanovic, Maja. "Behaviours And Attitudes About Body Image And Eating Disorders Among Adolescent Females In Kragujevac." Serbian Journal of Experimental and Clinical Research 16, no. 3 (September 1, 2015): 235–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/sjecr-2015-0031.

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AbstractEating disorders are often in older teens and young women with prevalence 4-5% with increasing tendency. The aim of this study was to investigate the prevalence of eating disorders among adolescents in the city of Kragujevac, and to examine the relationship between the age and the type of eating disorder that can occur in adolescents.This descriptive, cross sectional study involved 220 participants (16-25 years old, 105 high school students and 115 students of the Faculty of Medical Sciences in Kragujevac, Serbia). Eating Attitudes Test EAT-26 questionnaire was used as a screening instrument, which consists of three subscales related to eating disorders (dieting, bulimia, oral control diet). The frequency of disturbed attitudes and eating habits among the investigated population was 26,8% (EAT-26 score ≥20). The high school students had a significantly higher score values (30,4% of girls achieved values EAT-26 score ≥20) than the medical students. Among the respondents, 17,6% were malnourished, 72,7% normal weight, 9,3% of the overweight and 0,5% obese. Eating disorder not otherwise specified (EDNOS) was 13,7%, subclinical bulimia 4,4% and subclinical anorexia 8,8%. There was statistically significant difference (p=0,024) in the expression of behavioral disorders between students of high school and faculty education.Our results suggest that malnutrition and anorexic syndrome are more frequently in population of medical students, but on the other hand, obesity and subclinical bulimic syndrome have a higher prevalence in high school student`s population, which can be explained by inappropriate education for adolescents.

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Feingold, Alan, and Ronald Mazzella. "Gender Differences in Body Image Are Increasing." Psychological Science 9, no. 3 (May 1998): 190–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-9280.00036.

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It has been speculated that the prevalence of eating disorders in women has risen because of increases in women's body dissatisfaction. We conducted a meta-analysis of gender differences in attractiveness and body image using 222 studies from the past 50 years. The analysis shows dramatic increases in the numbers of women among individuals who have poor body image. Moreover, these trends were found across multiple conceptualizations of body image, including self-judgments of physical attractiveness.

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Harris, Mary B. "Weight Concern, Body Image, and Abnormal Eating in College Women Tennis Players and Their Coaches." International Journal of Sport Nutrition and Exercise Metabolism 10, no. 1 (March 2000): 1–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1123/ijsnem.10.1.1.

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In order to study weight concerns and eating disorders in women tennis players, 107 women tennis players and 26 women’s tennis coaches from colleges across the U.S. responded to questionnaires relating to weight concern, body image, and abnormal eating. When evaluating drawings of female figures, players and coaches both considered the ideal body shape to be smaller than the healthiest one. Most players had normal weight, eating habits, and self-esteem; however, they also exhibited noticeable concern about their weight and appearance. Coaches revealed only moderate knowledge of weight related issues, believed such knowledge to be important, recognized that most of their players were of normal weight, and revealed somewhat negative feelings about overweight people. Players and coaches shared a healthy attitude toward tennis. The results of this study do not imply that college women tennis players are at greater risk of eating disorders than other young women, nor that college coaches are encouraging abnormal eating behaviors.

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Marta-Simões, M., C. Ferreira, and A. L. Mendes. "Cognitive fusion: Maladaptive emotion regulation endangering body image appreciation and related eating behaviours." European Psychiatry 41, S1 (April 2017): S556—S557. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eurpsy.2017.01.798.

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Body image-related cognitive fusion is described as the perception that undesired and distressing internal events related to body image are reliable representations of reality. This maladaptive emotion regulation process is known for its impact on human suffering, namely eating psychopathology. On the contrary, body appreciation is a positive body image construct, defined as an attitude of acceptance and affection toward one's body image characteristics, despite some level of dissatisfaction. Although body appreciation associates negatively with several pathogenic processes, its relationship with body image-related cognitive fusion is still unexplored. The present study intended to analyse the power of body image related cognitive fusion regarding its impact on body appreciation, and also on the engagement in disordered eating. The study's sample comprised 308 women, aged between 18 and 35. A path model tested the mediator role of body image related cognitive fusion in the relationship between body image dissatisfaction and body appreciation, and eating disorders symptomatology, controlled for the effect of body mass index.The tested model accounted for 67% of the variance of disordered eating. Body image related cognitive fusion appeared as a significant mediator of the association between body dissatisfaction and body appreciation. Body appreciation presented a significant direct effect on eating disorders symptomatology. These findings highlight the disturbing effect of cognitive fusion related to body image on the construction of a positive body image, presenting an impact on the engagement in disordered eating. In this line, cognitive fusion may be a pertinent target in clinical practice and also within eating disorders prevention.Disclosure of interestThe authors have not supplied their declaration of competing interest.

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Stewardson, Laurel, Jessica Nolan, and Regine Talleyrand. "Eating Disorders and Body Image Concerns in Men of Color: Cultural Considerations." Journal of Mental Health Counseling 42, no. 2 (April 1, 2020): 110–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.17744/mehc.42.2.02.

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Research on eating disorders and body-image concerns has traditionally focused on White women and girls. Only a few studies have addressed the specific needs of racially and ethnically diverse men with eating disorders. This article reviews and presents research findings on contextual risk factors that contribute to eating disorders and body-image concerns in men and boys. First, important race- and ethnicity-related factors such as racial identity, acculturation, and experiences of discrimination are briefly discussed. Risk factors relevant for this population, including race-related factors, visual and social media, sexual orientation, muscularity, weight and obesity, and substance abuse, are then explored. Finally, implications for service providers and areas for future research are identified.

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Czarlinski, Jennifer A., Darrin M. Aase, and Leonard A. Jason. "Eating Disorders, Normative Eating Self-Efficacy and Body Image Self-Efficacy: Women in Recovery Homes." European Eating Disorders Review 20, no. 3 (July 13, 2011): 190–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/erv.1116.

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Alonso Díaz, R., E. Cortázar Alonso, H. Guillén Rodrigo, S. Fuentes Márquez, and R. Remesal Cobreros. "Food, Body Image, Perfectionism." European Psychiatry 33, S1 (March 2016): S425. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eurpsy.2016.01.1538.

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IntroductionThe eating disorder (ED) are anorexia nervosa, bulimia and unspecified eating disorder behavior according to ICD-10. Currently the ED have become a social and health problem of the first kind that require specialized and interdisciplinary approach to the response of such disorders.The growing demand observed in different assistive devices is associated with increased incidence of eating disorders in recent decades.Case descriptionShe is a woman of 23 years old, single. It is the small two brothers. He lives with his parents and brother 25 years. It is fourth-year student of law. It is derived from primary care by their GP after significant weight loss by decreasing the intake of foods high in calories and low mood. It is defined as a very responsible person, controller and is always looking for perfection in every activity performed. He began to try to lose weight about a year that relates to start time of stress ago. She speaks that had many exams and wanted to get top marks in all. With good adherence to psychotherapy and monitoring by nurses. Aspects of body image as well as traits such as perfectionism work.ConclusionsThese clinical conditions are characterized by their complexity and diversity symptomatology, which involves a significant interference in their functioning in different vital areas and clinically significant distress. After the psychotherapeutic approach, a significant reduction in the clinic that she had at the beginning and an improvement in mood was observed.Disclosure of interestThe authors have not supplied their declaration of competing interest.

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Castellano, Sabrina, Agostino Rizzotto, Sergio Neri, Walter Currenti, Claudia Savia Guerrera, Concetta Pirrone, Marinella Coco, and Donatella Di Corrado. "The Relationship between Body Dissatisfaction and Eating Disorder Symptoms in Young Women Aspiring Fashion Models: The Mediating Role of Stress." European Journal of Investigation in Health, Psychology and Education 11, no. 2 (June 18, 2021): 607–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ejihpe11020043.

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It is widely recognized that body dissatisfaction is an important public health concern. In the past, being a fashion model was almost synonymous with anorexia/bulimia, and even today, there are cases of eating disorders in young women whose ambition is to become a top model. Moreover, stress can play a substantial role within ill health via related behaviors such as smoking, substance abuse, and inappropriate eating. In our study, we examined 112 aspiring fashion models aged between 15 and 24 years (M = 19.5, SD = 2.08) from 32 different countries of the world during an international contest, and 100 students (control group), aged between 16 and 22 years (M = 18.6, SD = 1.39). The purpose of this cross-sectional study was to examine whether stress mediated the relationship between body dissatisfaction and eating disorders. The study included the administration of stress and self-efficacy and the locus of control dimensions, body (image) dissatisfaction, and eating attitude disorder. Results indicated higher scores on body dissatisfaction, stress level, and eating attitudes disorder among the group of fashion models compared to the control. Mediational analyses showed that body dissatisfaction was partially mediated by stress level on eating disorders. Especially in the aspiring fashion models, there are often many possibilities that competitive stress causes candidates to exacerbate attempts to maintain their body weight below normal weight/height parameters. These results indicated that appropriate intervention for the management of stress level could possibly defend against the negative impact of body dissatisfaction on eating disorder symptoms. The presence of skilled health workers in the field of nutrition and psychology can be extremely important in the field of fashion to maintain an adequate quality of life.

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Kato, Greimel, Hu, Müller-Gartner, Salchinger, Freidl, Saito, and Roth. "The Relationship between Sense of Coherence, Stress, Body Image Satisfaction and Eating Behavior in Japanese and Austrian Students." Psych 1, no. 1 (November 14, 2019): 504–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/psych1010039.

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Background: Restrained, emotional, and external eating are related to obesity and eating disorders. A salutogenic model has confirmed sense of coherence (SOC) as a health resource that moderates stress and helps limit the occurrence of overweightness and eating disorders. This study aimed to examine the relationship between SOC, social support, stress, body image satisfaction (BIS) and eating behaviors in different cultural environments. Methods: A total of 371 Austrian (161 men, 210 women) and 398 Japanese (226 men, 172 women) university students participated. The SOC-13 scale, Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support, Dutch Eating Behavior Questionnaire, BMI-Based Silhouette Matching Test and an analogue single-stress item were used as measurements. Results: SOC negatively affected all three types of eating in Austrian students (men: β = −0.227 to −0.215; women: β = −0.262 to −0.214). In Japanese students, SOC negatively affected external eating in both sexes (men: β = −0.150; women: β = −0.198) and emotional eating (β = −0.187) in men. BIS indicated that the desire to become slim predicted restrained eating, women’s emotional eating, and men’s and Austrian women’s external eating. Stress was only predictive of emotional eating in Japanese men. Conclusions: This study found that SOC, BIS and stress might be valuable factors regulating eating behavior in a cultural context. However, the relationship between SOC, BIS, stress and eating behavior differs between cultures.

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Lindeman, Alice K. "Self-Esteemml: Its Application to Eating Disorders and Athletes." International Journal of Sport Nutrition 4, no. 3 (September 1994): 237–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1123/ijsn.4.3.237.

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Self-esteem, a hierarchical and multifactorial perception, can be described as the extent to which a person feels positive about himself or herself. Social factors such as life satisfaction, sex, age, and strongly held values can affect self-esteem. Low self-esteem Is a well-recognized trait of those with eating disorders and may be associated with a heightened self-awareness. Body dissatisfaction, common among women in Western society, may enhance this awareness. Athletes, especially those with eating disorders, are perfectionists and have acute body awareness and a sense of loss of control Control is a crucial issue with these athletes. Before any nutrition counseling starts, readiness to listen should be assessed in conjunction with a mental health professional. Various tools are available to assess the eating disordered athlete's self-esteem, body image, and eating behavior. Nutrition counseling can help the athlete overcome an eating disorder by clarifying misconceptions and focusing on the role of nutrition in promoting health and athletic performance.

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Chua, Yu Wei, Gemma Lewis, Abigail Easter, Glyn Lewis, and Francesca Solmi. "Eighteen-year trajectories of depressive symptoms in mothers with a lifetime eating disorder: findings from the ALSPAC cohort." British Journal of Psychiatry 216, no. 2 (May 14, 2019): 90–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/bjp.2019.89.

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BackgroundTwo longitudinal studies have shown that depressive symptoms in women with eating disorders might improve in the antenatal and early postnatal periods. No study has followed up women beyond 8 months postnatal.AimsTo investigate long-term trajectories of depressive symptoms in mothers with lifetime self-reported eating disorders.MethodUsing data from the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children and multilevel growth curves we modelled trajectories of depressive symptoms from the 18th week of pregnancy to 18 years postnatal in women with lifetime self-reported anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa or both anorexia and bulimia nervosa. As sensitivity analyses we also investigated these trajectories using quintiles of a continuous measure of body image in pregnancy.ResultsOf the 9276 women in our main sample, 126 (1.4%) reported a lifetime diagnosis of anorexia nervosa, 153 (1.6%) of bulimia nervosa and 60 (0.6%) of both anorexia and bulimia nervosa. Women with lifetime eating disorders had greater depressive symptoms scores than women with no eating disorders, before and after adjustment for confounders (anorexia nervosa: 2.10, 95% CI 1.36–2.83; bulimia nervosa: 2.28, 95% CI: 1.61–2.94, both anorexia and bulimia nervosa: 2.86, 95% CI 1.81–3.90). We also observed a dose–response association between greater body image and eating concerns in pregnancy and more severe trajectories of depressive symptoms, even after adjusting for lifetime eating disorders which also remained independently associated with greater depressive symptoms.ConclusionsWomen with eating disorders experience persistently greater depressive symptoms across the life-course. More training for practitioners and midwives on how to recognise eating disorders in pregnancy could help to identify depressive symptoms and reduce the long-term burden of disease resulting from this comorbidity.

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Lawson, Elizabeth A., Kamryn T. Eddy, Daniel Donoho, Madhusmita Misra, Karen K. Miller, Erinne Meenaghan, Janet Lydecker, David Herzog, and Anne Klibanski. "Appetite-regulating hormones cortisol and peptide YY are associated with disordered eating psychopathology, independent of body mass index." European Journal of Endocrinology 164, no. 2 (February 2011): 253–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1530/eje-10-0523.

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ObjectiveDisordered eating occurs in women at both weight extremes of anorexia nervosa (AN) and obesity. Cortisol, peptide YY (PYY), leptin, and ghrelin are hormones involved in appetite and feeding behavior that vary with weight and body fat. Abnormal levels of these hormones have been reported in women with AN, functional hypothalamic amenorrhea (HA), and obesity. The relationship between appetite-regulating hormones and disordered eating psychopathology is unknown. We therefore studied the relationship between orexigenic and anorexigenic hormones and disordered eating psychopathology in women across a range of weights.DesignA cross-sectional study of 65 women, 18–45 years: 16 with AN, 12 normal-weight with HA, 17 overweight or obese, and 20 normal-weight in good health.MethodsTwo validated measures of disordered eating psychopathology, the Eating Disorders Examination-Questionnaire (EDE-Q) and Eating Disorders Inventory-2 (EDI-2), were administered. Fasting PYY, leptin, and ghrelin levels were measured; cortisol levels were pooled from serum samples obtained every 20 min from 2000 to 0800 h.ResultsCortisol and PYY levels were positively associated with disordered eating psychopathology including restraint, eating concerns, and body image disturbance, independent of body mass index (BMI). Although leptin levels were negatively associated with disordered eating psychopathology, these relationships were not significant after controlling for BMI. Ghrelin levels were generally not associated with EDE-Q or EDI-2 scores.ConclusionsHigher levels of cortisol and PYY are associated with disordered eating psychopathology independent of BMI in women across the weight spectrum, suggesting that abnormalities in appetite regulation may be associated with specific eating disorder pathologies.

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Hall, Christine C. Iijima. "Asian Eyes: Body Image and Eating Disorders of Asian and Asian American Women." Eating Disorders 3, no. 1 (January 1995): 8–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10640269508249141.

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Oshio, Atsushi, and Tatiana Meshkova. "Eating disorders, body image, and dichotomous thinking among Japanese and Russian college women." Health 04, no. 07 (2012): 392–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.4236/health.2012.47062.

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Striegel-Moore, Ruth H., Debra L. Franko, Douglas Thompson, Bruce Barton, George B. Schreiber, and Stephen R. Daniels. "Changes in weight and body image over time in women with eating disorders." International Journal of Eating Disorders 36, no. 3 (2004): 315–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/eat.20053.

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Amalia, Lia. "Citra Tubuh (Body Image) Remaja Perempuan." Musãwa Jurnal Studi Gender dan Islam 5, no. 4 (October 29, 2007): 441. http://dx.doi.org/10.14421/musawa.2007.54.441-464.

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A socio,cultural component has long been blamed for the excessive concern with the appearance of women. Typically, the media is blamed for creating an impossible thin ideal as a model for women to emulate, and such images in magazines and on TV have been cast as the cause of widespread use of excessive dieting and eating disorders to achieve the "unachievable". The onset of theses two diseases typically occur during early adolescence or early adulthood when most young women are not only susceptible to cultural pressure for thinness and whiteness but also likely to be heavily involved with, and influenced by the mass media. This point may help explain how cultural images of one's reference group, may constitute an inescapable group that can have negative consequences as it is incorporated into local culture. The susceptibility to these pressures and influences from the media is believed to be heightened because of the fact that intense preoccupied with appearance and identity development characterizes adolescent girls.

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Cullari, Salvatore, and Roselyne S. Trubilla. "Body-Image Distortion in Normal-Weight College Women." Perceptual and Motor Skills 68, no. 3_suppl (June 1989): 1195–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.2466/pms.1989.68.3c.1195.

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20 normal-weight college women were tested for body-image distortion and given the Eating Disorder Inventory and the Tennessee Self-concept Scale. Body-image distortion was present in one-half of the sample and seemed to be related to cognitive factors. There was no evidence of perceptual abnormalities in the subjects, and body-image distortion was not correlated with body weight or low self-esteem.

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Cooper, Peter J., and Melanie J. Taylor. "Body Image Disturbance in Bulimia Nervosa." British Journal of Psychiatry 153, S2 (1988): 32–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/s0007125000298966.

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Bulimia nervosa is a disorder which has only recently been identified and described (Russell, 1979). It is a condition, found almost exclusively in young women, in which episodes of excessive uncontrolled eating are the central feature. Patients with bulimia nervosa usually present at normal weight because they compensate for the bulimic episodes in a variety of ways, such as by inducing vomiting, abusing purgatives and exercising extreme dietary restraint. In addition to these disturbed eating habits, patients with bulimia nervosa have attitudes to their shape and weight similar to those found in anorexia nervosa. They also present with a wide range of neurotic symptoms, particularly of a depressive nature (Russell, 1979; Fairburn & Cooper, 1984). It is generally accepted that these neurotic symptoms are usually a secondary reaction to the core eating disorder rather than of primary diagnostic significance (Fairburn et al, 1985; Cooper & Fairburn, 1986).

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Izydorczyk, Bernadetta, Ha Truong Thi Khanh, Sebastian Lizińczyk, Katarzyna Sitnik-Warchulska, Małgorzata Lipowska, and Adrianna Gulbicka. "Body Dissatisfaction, Restrictive, and Bulimic Behaviours among Young Women: A Polish–Japanese Comparison." Nutrients 12, no. 3 (February 29, 2020): 666. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nu12030666.

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The growing number of women, who are characterized by restrictive and bulimic behaviours towards their own body is observed especially in countries influenced by Westernalization. However, there is a lack of cross-cultural studies in this area. The main aim of the present study was to examine the psychological and socio-cultural risk factors for eating disorders in Polish and Japanese women. A cross-sectional research study was conducted among 18- to 29-year old Polish (n = 89) and Japanese (n = 97) women. The variables were measured using the Sociocultural Attitudes Towards Appearance Scale SATAQ-3, and the Eating Disorders Inventory EDI-3. The descriptive and comparative statistics, Spearman’s rho, and the stepwise regression analysis were used. The global internalization of socio-cultural standards of body image proved to be a significant predictor of Body Dissatisfaction among Polish and Japanese women. The main analysis showed a significant relation between the Drive for Thinness and Interoceptive Deficits in the group of Japanese women, as well as a correlation between Drive for Thinness and Asceticism in the group of Polish women. The obtained results could improve the prevention aimed the dysfunctional eating behaviours. However, the cultural nuances need to be considered in understanding the risk factors for eating disorders.

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Damani, S., E. J. Button, and C. H. Reveley. "The body image structured interview: a new method for the exploration of body image in women with eating disorders." European Eating Disorders Review 9, no. 3 (2001): 167–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/erv.373.

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Czepczor-Bernat, Kamila, Viren Swami, Adriana Modrzejewska, and Justyna Modrzejewska. "COVID-19-Related Stress and Anxiety, Body Mass Index, Eating Disorder Symptomatology, and Body Image in Women from Poland: A Cluster Analysis Approach." Nutrients 13, no. 4 (April 20, 2021): 1384. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nu13041384.

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To limit the spread of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), many countries have introduced mandated lockdown or social distancing measures. Although these measures may be successful against COVID-19 transmission, the pandemic and attendant restrictions are a source of chronic and severe stress and anxiety which may contribute to the emergence or worsening of symptoms of eating disorders and the development of negative body image. Therefore, in this study, we aimed to: (1) classify different conditions associated with COVID-19-related stress, COVID-19-related anxiety, and weight status; and (2) analyze and compare the severity of dimensions typically related to eating disorders symptomatology and body image in individuals with different COVID-19-related stress, COVID-19-related anxiety, and weight status. Polish women (N = 671, Mage = 32.50 ± 11.38) completed measures of COVID-19-related stress and anxiety along with body dissatisfaction, drive for thinness, and bulimia symptomatology subscales of the Eating Disorders Inventory, and the appearance evaluation, overweight preoccupation, and body areas satisfaction subscales of the Multidimensional Body-Self Relations Questionnaire. The following four clusters were identified through cluster analysis: (a) Cluster 1 (N = 269), healthy body weight and low COVID-related stress (M = 3.06) and anxiety (M = 2.96); (b) Cluster 2 (N = 154), healthy body weight and high COVID-related stress (M = 5.43) and anxiety (M = 5.29); (c) Cluster 3 (N = 127), excess body weight and high COVID-related stress (M = 5.23) and anxiety (M = 5.35); (d) Cluster 4 (N = 121), excess body weight and low COVID-related stress (M = 2.69) and anxiety (M = 2.83). Our results showed that Clusters 3 and 4 had significantly greater body dissatisfaction and lower appearance evaluation and body areas satisfaction than Clusters 1 and 2. Cluster 3 also had a significantly higher level of drive for thinness, bulimia, and overweight preoccupation than Clusters 1 and 2. These preliminary findings may mean that the COVID-19 pandemic and attendant anxiety and stress caused by the pandemic are exacerbating symptoms of eating disorders and negative body image, with women with excess weight particularly at risk.

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Lewis, Vivienne, and Ngaire Donaghue. "The Embeddedness of Body Image: A Study of Women With and Without Eating Disorders." Journal of Applied Biobehavioral Research 10, no. 4 (May 4, 2007): 199–208. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1751-9861.2005.tb00012.x.

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Joiner, Greg W., and Susan Kashubeck. "Acculturation, Body Image, Self-Esteem, And Eating-Disorder Symptomatology In Adolescent Mexican American Women." Psychology of Women Quarterly 20, no. 3 (September 1996): 419–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1471-6402.1996.tb00309.x.

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In this article the relationship among acculturation, body image, self-esteem, and eating disorder symptomatology in 120 Mexican American adolescent women was investigated. Surprisingly, acculturation levels were not related to anorexic or bulimic symptomatology, self-esteem, body dissatisfaction or thinness of ideal and attractive figures. Lower levels of self-esteem predicted higher levels of anorexic and bulimic symptomatology. Body mass was positively related to bulimic scores. In contrast to Lester and Petrie (1995), body dissatisfaction was significantly related to eating-disorder symptomatology. The high levels of disordered eating attitudes and behaviors found in this study suggest that rather than exclusively being an Anglo, middle-to upper-class phenomenon, eating-disordered behavior also exists within lower socioeconomic status Mexican American adolescent women.

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Petrie, Trent A., Christy Greenleaf, Jennifer E. Carter, and Justine J. Reel. "Psychosocial Correlates of Disordered Eating Among Male Collegiate Athletes." Journal of Clinical Sport Psychology 1, no. 4 (December 2007): 340–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1123/jcsp.1.4.340.

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Few studies have been conducted examining male athletes and eating disorders, even though the sport environment may increase their risk. Thus, little information exists regarding the relationship of putative risk factors to eating disorders in this group. To address this issue, we examined the relationship of eating disorder classification to the risk factors of body image concerns (including drive for muscularity), negative affect, weight pressures, and disordered eating behaviors. Male college athletes (N= 199) from three different NCAA Division I universities participated. Only two athletes were classified with an eating disorder, though 33 (16.6%) and 164 (82.4%), respectively, were categorized as symptomatic and asymptomatic. Multivariate analyses revealed that eating disorder classification was unrelated to the majority of the risk factors, although the eating disorder group (i.e., clinical and symptomatic) did report greater fear of becoming fat, more weight pressures from TV and from magazines, and higher levels of stress than the asymptomatic athletes. In addition, the eating disorder group had higher scores on the Bulimia Test-Revised (Thelen, Mintz, & Vander Wal, 1996), which validated the Questionnaire for Eating Disorder Diagnosis (Mintz, O’Halloran, Mulholland, & Schneider, 1997) as a measure of eating disorders with male athletes. These findings suggest that variables that have been supported as risk factors among women in general, and female athletes in particular, may not apply as strongly, or at all, to male athletes.

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Gardanova, Zhanna Robertovna, Svetlana Andreevna Kalina, Dmitriy Fedorovich Khritinin, Mikhail Anatolievich Nekrasov, Evgeniya Vitalievna Dementieva, Vyacheslav Ivanovich Ilgov, Albert Kirillovich Gardanov, et al. "Features of eating behavior and social anxiety in women who negatively assess their appearance." Vestnik nevrologii, psihiatrii i nejrohirurgii (Bulletin of Neurology, Psychiatry and Neurosurgery), no. 3 (March 18, 2021): 172–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.33920/med-01-2103-01.

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In the conditions of rapid development and increasing the accessibility of the beauty industry, a person forms an ideal image of himself, which must be met. The consequences are expressed by the widespread dissatisfaction in the society with the appearance inherent in people of any age and representing a potential threat to physical and mental health. In order to study the peculiarities of eating behavior in women who negatively assess their appearance, a psychodiagnosis of a sample of 98 women aged 18 to 60 years was conducted with the study of assessing attitudes to their own bodies, assessing eating behavior, and assessing the level of social anxiety. As a result of the data obtained, the importance of timely diagnosis of manifestations of social anxiety for people seeking psychological help with the aim of correcting eating behavior, low self-esteem, dissatisfaction and dissatisfaction with their bodies, non-acceptance of their appearance, and also people who have an increased risk of eating disorders and body image disorders.

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Das, Keya, and Rajesh Raman. "“Mirror, Mirror, on the Wall…Who is the Fairest of Them All?”—Body Image and Its Role in Sexual Health." Journal of Psychosexual Health 1, no. 3-4 (July 2019): 227–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2631831819890778.

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Changing times on a global scale have seen a paradigm shift in the perception of “idealness” of body shape and construct of beauty. This has far-reaching impacts on several spheres of life from psychological, physical, as well as sexual health. The influence of attitudes, beliefs, culture, art, geography, and technological advances has been explored with the premise of body image impacting sexual health and functioning. The role body image plays in sexual health has been studied widely from the Western perspective mostly in women, but studies in the Indian context are limited to weight, body mass index, eating disorders, body dysmorphic disorders, rather the relation between body image in sexuality or sexual functioning.

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Brodie, D. A., S. C. Drew, and C. Jackman. "Influence of Preconception on Body Image." Perceptual and Motor Skills 83, no. 2 (October 1996): 571–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.2466/pms.1996.83.2.571.

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The purpose of this study was to establish whether preconceived body images influence quantitative perceptions of body shape. 59 healthy female subjects were subdivided into four groups by amount of activity and body mass index. The body shape of the same person, dressed differently to appear like a model, a student, and a cook, was classified by reference to an adiposity scale based on line drawings. A significant difference was shown between the representations of the types of occupation with the model viewed consistently as the slimmest and the cook as the fattest. The obese women classified all three occupational groups as slimmer than the nonobese, and the active groups as slimmer than the inactive. The implications of this work relate to a better understanding of body-image distortion, to treatment for eating disorders, and a recognition that people retain preconceived perceptions developed on the basis of experience.

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Stice, Eric, Paul Rohde, Heather Shaw, and Chris Desjardins. "Weight suppression increases odds for future onset of anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and purging disorder, but not binge eating disorder." American Journal of Clinical Nutrition 112, no. 4 (June 13, 2020): 941–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ajcn/nqaa146.

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ABSTRACT Background Eating disorders affect 13% of females and contribute to functional impairment and mortality, but few studies have identified risk factors that prospectively correlate with future onset of anorexia nervosa (AN), bulimia nervosa (BN), binge eating disorder (BED), and purging disorder (PD). Identifying risk factors specific to each eating disorder is critical for advancing etiologic knowledge and designing effective prevention programs. Objectives This study examined whether weight suppression (the difference between a person's highest past weight at their adult height and their current weight) correlates with future onset of AN, BN, BED, and PD. Methods Data from 1165 young women with body image concerns (mean ± SD age: 21.9 ± 6.4 y) who completed annual diagnostic interviews over a 3-y follow-up period were examined. Logistic regression models evaluated the relation of baseline weight suppression to onset risk of each eating disorder controlling for age, dietary restraint, and intervention condition. Results Elevated weight suppression predicted future onset of AN (OR: 1.36; 95% CI: 1.03, 1.80), BN (OR: 1.34; 95% CI: 1.11, 1.62), PD (OR: 1.46; 95% CI: 1.23, 1.74), and any eating disorder (OR: 1.32; 95% CI: 1.12, 1.56), but not BED (OR: 1.10; 95% CI: 0.89, 1.37). Highest past weight correlated with future onset of BN and PD but not onset of AN, BED, or any eating disorder, and baseline current weight was inversely related to future AN onset only, implying that women with the largest difference between their highest past weight and current weight are at greatest risk of eating disorders. Conclusions The results provide novel evidence that weight suppression correlates with future onset of eating disorders characterized by dietary restriction or compensatory weight control behaviors and suggest weight-suppressed women constitute an important risk group to target with selective prevention programs. These trials were registered at clinicaltrials.gov as NCT01126918 and NCT01949649.

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Naor-Ziv, Revital, Rose King, and Joseph Glicksohn. "Rank-Order of Body Shapes Reveals Internal Hierarchy of Body Image." Journal for Person-Oriented Research 6, no. 1 (September 10, 2020): 28–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.17505/jpor.2020.22044.

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How do individuals rank body shapes? Does this relate to the body part one is most dissatisfied with? Our study investigates whether one can generalize regarding how women represent the body. Three BMI-calibrated images from the Photographic Figure Rating Scale, representative of thin (BMI = 14.72), medium (BMI = 20.33), and large (BMI = 29.26) shapes, were divided into torso, legs and arms, and saved as individual images on a black background. Of 27 possible composite images, 8 were chosen based on a Torso (thin vs. large) × Leg (thin/large vs. medium) × Arm (thin vs. large) design. Our 44 female participants ordered these from thinnest to largest. This was first according to torso, then leg, and finally arm: 41 individuals agreed on the thinnest image (thin torso, thin legs, thin arms), followed by a second image (thin torso, thin legs, large arms, n = 26; or thin torso, medium legs, thin arms, n = 10). One participant differed markedly in her choice of the first image (large torso, medium legs, thin arms). Interestingly, she scored 10 on the EDI-2 scale of Bulimic Tendencies, revealing high risk for bulimia, suggesting that our task might be useful for studying eating disorders. Our juxtaposition of two analytic procedures—partial order scalogram analysis (POSAC) and cluster analysis—enables one to uncover such outliers in a data set. Importantly, the 2D POSAC space clearly reveals the hierarchical structure of the body image.

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Velázquez López, Héctor Julián, Rosalía Vázquez Arévalo, and Juan Manuel Mancilla Díaz. "Binge eating disorder in men. A review of the relevant variables in the literature." Salud mental 41, no. 2 (May 1, 2018): 91–100. http://dx.doi.org/10.17711/sm.0185-3325.2018.014.

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Background. Although binge eating disorder (BED) formally appeared in the fourth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV), after nearly two decades of research, it is still considered understudied in men. Objective. To carry out a literature review with the variables that have been relevant in research on BED in men, from 1994 to 2015. Method. The article search was conducted in Medline and PsycINFO databases. Results. Twenty-eight articles were analyzed, none specifically investigated male population. Men engage less in restrictive dieting than women (29.8% and 57.3%, respectively). Regarding body image, both men and women are prone to body dissatisfaction, although the ideal body is not necessarily the same. Regarding comorbidity, anxiety disorders are the most common ones in men with BED, in addition to the fact that they are more susceptible to substance abuse. Discussion and conclusion. Investigation on BED has mainly been conducted on female population, which suggests the need for more research on men that provides more empirical evidence.

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Brodie, D. A., and P. D. Slade. "The relationship between body-image and body-fat in adult women." Psychological Medicine 18, no. 3 (August 1988): 623–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0033291700008308.

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SynopsisMeasures of body-fat or adiposity, body-image, and other psychological variables were obtained from a sample of 100 female volunteer subjects. The measures of adiposity included surface anthropometry, underwater weighing and a new electrical impedance method. Body-image measures were derived from two experimental techniques, namely the visual-size estimation (or calliper) method and a distorting-mirror, and also from a self-report body-satisfaction scale (BSS).The main findings were that measures of adiposity were positively and significantly related to each other. But, that by contrast, measures of body-image separated out into three distinct sets, namely: (i) ‘mirror’ accuracy, (2) ‘callipers’ accuracy, and (3) ‘dissatisfaction/desire for change’. The ‘accuracy’ measures were found to be unrelated to measures of adiposity or other psychological variables: while the ‘dissatisfaction’ measures were found to relate to both of these. The implications of these findings for future studies of weight and eating disorder groups are discussed.

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Bouzas, Cristina, Maria del Mar Bibiloni, and Josep A. Tur. "Relationship between Body Image and Body Weight Control in Overweight ≥55-Year-Old Adults: A Systematic Review." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 16, no. 9 (May 9, 2019): 1622. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16091622.

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Objective: To assess the scientific evidence on the relationship between body image and body weight control in overweight ≥55-year-old adults. Methods: The literature search was conducted on MEDLINE database via PubMed, using terms related to body image, weight control and body composition. Inclusion criteria were scientific papers, written in English or Spanish, made on older adults. Exclusion criteria were eating and psychological disorders, low sample size, cancer, severe diseases, physiological disorders other than metabolic syndrome, and bariatric surgery. Results: Fifty-seven studies were included. Only thirteen were conducted exclusively among ≥55-year-old adults or performed analysis adjusted by age. Overweight perception was related to spontaneous weight management, which usually concerned dieting and exercising. More men than women showed over-perception of body image. Ethnics showed different satisfaction level with body weight. As age increases, conformism with body shape, as well as expectations concerning body weight decrease. Misperception and dissatisfaction with body weight are risk factors for participating in an unhealthy lifestyle and make it harder to follow a healthier lifestyle. Body image disturbance also made it more likely to underreport calorie intake. Conclusions: Aging is associated with a decrease in weight concerns and lower overweight perception, especially in women. However, when designing a program to improve body image in overweight ≥55-year-old adults, three items ought to be considered: physical activity, dietary and behavioral treatments.

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Di Girolamo, G., S. Valente, F. Cerrato, P. Scudellari, A. R. Atti, and D. De Ronchi. "Sex-specific issues in eating disorders: A clinical and psychopathological investigation." European Psychiatry 41, S1 (April 2017): S548—S549. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eurpsy.2017.01.774.

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IntroductionGender is crucial in many aspects of life, including attitude towards body image perception. Although the well-known female preponderance, recent studies demonstrate an increasing Eating Disorders (EDs) incidence in males but scant literature attention.AimsThis study aims to highlight the growing phenomenon of EDs in males and shed light on sex-related clinical features and psychiatric comorbidities.MethodOut of 280 persons aged 18–74, consecutively referred to Bologna's outpatients EDs clinic, 267 were included in this retrospective observational study.ResultsThe men/women ratio was one to five. The most frequent EDs in males was Binge Eating Disorder, whereas in females Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia Nervosa prevailed. Excessive exercising and fasting were the most common dysfunctional behaviors in men, while self-induced vomiting and laxative-diuretic abuse were more typical in women. Mood and Somatoform Disorders were more common in women, whereas Anxiety and Psychosis Disorders in males. Within personality disorders, borderline and histrionic prevailed in female, while narcissistic and anti-social in males.ConclusionsMale compared to female EDs, show differences in clinical presentation, symptoms and comorbidities. The increased proportion of affected men should alert general practitioners, clinicians and psychologists working in non-specialized settings to be more aware of the possibilities of encountering an ED in men and of the need of exploring the eating habits in all male patients. The finding of a more pronounced physical hyperactivity in men in order to achieve an ideal body shape which is muscular and athletic suggests the need of a deeper attention to sex-different symptoms and behaviors declination.Disclosure of interestThe authors have not supplied their declaration of competing interest.

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