scholarly journals Weight suppression predicts bulimic symptoms at 20-year follow-up: The mediating role of drive for thinness.

2017 ◽  
Vol 126 (1) ◽  
pp. 32-37 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lindsay P. Bodell ◽  
Tiffany A. Brown ◽  
Pamela K. Keel
Keyword(s):  
Drive For Thinness ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Weight Suppression ◽  
Bulimic Symptoms

Treatment of Antidepressant-Resistant Bulimia with Naltrexone

1987 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 305-309 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeffrey M. Jonas ◽  
Mark S. Gold
Keyword(s):  
Eating Disorders ◽  
Preliminary Data ◽  
Endogenous Opioids ◽  
Opiate Antagonist ◽  
Percent Reduction ◽  
Bulimic Symptoms ◽  
Long Acting ◽  
Insight Into

Ten individuals with antidepressant-resistant bulimia were treated with the long-acting opiate antagonist naltrexone. Seven of the ten experienced at least a 75 percent reduction of their bulimic symptoms, and have maintained their improvment on three to five month follow-up. These preliminary data suggest that naltrexone may be of use in bulimia unresponsive to standard antidepressant therapy, and may provide insight into the role of endogenous opioids in the etiology of eating disorders.

scholarly journals Assessing the Relationship Between Drive for Thinness and Taste–Shape Correspondences

2020 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-92 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yumi Hamamoto ◽  
Kosuke Motoki ◽  
Motoaki Sugiura
Keyword(s):  
Eating Disorder ◽  
Individual Differences ◽  
Shape Matching ◽  
Preliminary Investigation ◽  
Mediating Effect ◽  
Drive For Thinness ◽  
Young Females ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Degree Of Association

Abstract Eating disorder tendencies are psychological characteristics that are prevalent in healthy young females and are known to be among the risk factors for eating disorders such as anorexia and bulimia nervosa. People with greater eating disorder tendencies strongly associate sweet and fatty foods with weight gain and strictly avoid consuming such foods. However, little is known about how eating disorder tendencies influence the association between taste and body shape impression. Research on crossmodal correspondences suggests that people preferentially associate sweet tastes with round shapes, and individual differences affect the degree of such associations. This study investigates how the degree of taste–shape matching is related to eating disorder tendencies with a preliminary investigation of what mediates this relationship. Two experiments were conducted: in Experiment 1, healthy participants rated the degree of association between basic taste words (sweet/sour/salty/bitter) and roundness of shape and subsequently completed questionnaires addressing eating disorder tendencies. In Experiment 2, participants answered additional questionnaires addressing obsessiveness, dichotomous thinking, and self-esteem. The results of Experiment 1 indicated a positive correlation between drive for thinness, which is one indicator of an eating disorder tendency, and the degree of matching sweetness to round shape. Experiment 2 replicated the results of Experiment 1 and revealed the mediating effect of obsessiveness. These findings suggest a relationship between individual differences in taste–shape matching and eating disorder tendency and the preliminary mediating role of obsessiveness. The present study provides new insight into the role of sweet–round matching in eating disorder tendencies and the associated psychological mechanisms.

Single and combined effects of inflammatory markers on diabetes development; the mediating role of obesity: 10-year follow up of the Attica study

2018 ◽  
Vol 24 ◽  
pp. 180
Author(s):  
Efi Koloverou ◽  
Demosthenes Panagiotakos ◽  
Christina Chrysohoou ◽  
Ekavi Georgousopoulou ◽  
Dimitrios Tousoulis ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Inflammatory Markers ◽  
Combined Effects ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Diabetes Development

scholarly journals The Mediating Role of Self-esteem between Spousal Support and Infertility-related Stress among Infertile Couples: Actor Effects and Partner Effects

2021 ◽  
Vol 59 (4) ◽  
pp. 465-475
Author(s):  
Ka Yeon Lee ◽  
Seong Hee Kim
Keyword(s):  
Online Survey ◽  
Spousal Support ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Actor Partner Interdependence Model ◽  
Infertile Couples ◽  
Related Stress ◽  
Test Correlation

The purpose of this study was to examine actor and partner effects among infertile couples in determining whether self-esteem affects the degree of infertility-related stress via perceived spousal support. The sample comprised 219 couples who experienced infertility, each of whom completed an online survey. To analyze the data, descriptive statistics, t-test, correlation analysis and APIM (Actor-Partner Interdependence Model) were performed using SPSS 25.0 and Mplus 7.3 program. The main results were as follows. First, the actor effect of spousal support on self-esteem was significant in both husbands and wives. Second, the actor effects of spousal support on infertility-related stress and self-esteem on infertility stress were significant only in husbands. Third, in the association between husbands’ and wives’ spousal support and infertility-related stress, three mediating pathways via husband’s self-esteem were found to be significant. Based on these results, the necessity for a couple-level analysis in infertility research, psycho-emotional interventions for infertile couples, and implications for follow-up studies were discussed.

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