Misuse of prescription stimulants for weight loss, psychosocial variables, and eating disordered behaviors

Appetite ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 65 ◽  
pp. 8-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amy Jeffers ◽  
Eric G. Benotsch ◽  
Stephen Koester
Keyword(s):  
Weight Loss ◽  
Psychosocial Variables ◽  
Prescription Stimulants ◽  
Eating Disordered ◽  
Eating Disordered Behaviors

A Mediational Model of Autonomy, Self-Esteem, and Eating Disordered Attitudes and Behaviors

1996 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 217-228 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christina M. Frederick ◽  
Virginia M. Grow
Keyword(s):  
Eating Disorders ◽  
College Women ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Drive For Thinness ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Eating Disordered ◽  
Mediational Model ◽  
Attitudes And Behaviors ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Eating Disordered Behaviors

This study expands upon existing literature by examining how the relationship between autonomy deficits and low self-esteem may create a psychological environment conducive to the development of eating disordered behaviors. Findings supported a mediational model to account for eating disordered behaviors in 71 college women. In this model, lack of autonomy was related to decreased global self-esteem, which in turn was associated with bulimia, body dissatisfaction, and drive for thinness. Although only tentative and cross-sectional in nature, this study is of particular importance because it links autonomy and self-esteem in a coherent model predictive of eating disordered behaviors in college women. Developmental aspects of eating disorders and treatment implications are discussed.

scholarly journals Eating-Disordered Behaviors, Body Fat, and Psychopathology in Overweight and Normal-Weight Children.

2004 ◽  
Vol 72 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-61 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marian Tanofsky-Kraff ◽  
Susan Z. Yanovski ◽  
Denise E. Wilfley ◽  
Cheri Marmarosh ◽  
Christina M. Morgan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Body Fat ◽  
Normal Weight ◽  
Eating Disordered ◽  
Eating Disordered Behaviors

A Mediational Model of Social Physique Anxiety and Eating Disordered Behaviors

1998 ◽  
Vol 86 (1) ◽  
pp. 139-145 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christina M. Frederick ◽  
Craig S. Morrison
Keyword(s):  
Eating Disorders ◽  
Social Behavior ◽  
Longitudinal Research ◽  
Social Physique Anxiety ◽  
Eating Disordered ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Common ◽  
Eating Disorders Inventory ◽  
Behavior Inhibition ◽  
Eating Disordered Behaviors

In the present study correlations among scores on social physique anxiety, social behavior inhibition, and eating disordered behaviors and traits were hypothesized on the basis that social physique anxiety would be correlated with personality disturbances associated with eating disorders and mediated by social inhibition and eating disordered behaviors. Subjects were 79 college-aged women ( M age=19.5 yr.), who completed the Garner's Eating Disorders Inventory, the Social Physique Anxiety Scale, and a measure of social behavior inhibition developed for this study. A mediational path analysis showed scores on social physique anxiety significantly moderately related to scores for eating disordered traits, mediated by scores on eating disordered behavior. These correlations account for 14 to 31% of the common variance, and with clinical research, support the assumption that eating-disordered behavior may begin with milder symptomatology such as high scores on social physique anxiety. Longitudinal research is required to assess the proposed causal relationship between identification of early symptoms and later eating disorders; however, present research suggests early intervention with women at risk may be useful.

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