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.

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 The Social Construction of Defect Personal Stories of Emotions in Eating Disorders

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. p58
Author(s):  
Hilde Berit Moen
Keyword(s):  
Eating Disorders ◽  
Social Construction ◽  
Mental States ◽  
Emotional Experiences ◽  
Eating Disordered ◽  
Emotional Processes ◽  
Personal Stories ◽  
The Social

This article explores episodes characterized by overwhelming emotions in Eating Disorders (ED). In ED, emotions and symptoms are connected. The mentalizing perspective understands eating disordered symptoms as a form of regulation of painful emotions and as indicative of a reduced ability to attend to mental states in oneself and others (impaired mentalizing). However, the interpersonal and emotional processes associated with impaired mentalizing are insufficiently attended to in research. Based on interviews with eating disordered patients, this article analyses stories of everyday episodes portrayed as emotionally overwhelming. The results of this analysis establish that a wide array of emotions or emotional experiences are activated, the most prominent being inadequacy, anger, discomfort, fear, and sadness. Episodes are typically “multi-emotional”, characterized by a variety of emotional constellations. The findings do not indicate that eating disordered patients generally have difficulty identifying emotions. Eating disordered symptoms are therefore discussed as a form of defense. The episodes described typically instigate the activation of eating disordered symptoms. Furthermore, the episodes are predominantly social, with other people present, whether physically or in mind. In conclusion, the article discusses the implications of the findings to the understanding of eating disorders and treatment.

Life as a Male 'Anorexic'

1999 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 80 ◽  
Author(s):  
Murray Drummond
Keyword(s):  
Eating Disorders ◽  
Body Image ◽  
Social Construction ◽  
Bulimia Nervosa ◽  
Eating Disordered ◽  
The Social ◽  
Body Image Concerns ◽  
Historical Accounts ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Insight Into

Information surrounding male anorexia and bulimia nervosa is limited. Currently, health promoters and practitioners in this field have little to guide them apart from the data that informs female anorexia and bulimia nervosa. This paper is based on in-depth interviews with past and present eating disordered men. Using life historical accounts, the men provide rich descriptive information to document their plight with body image concerns and eating disorders. The paper provides insight into the lives of male anorexia and bulimia nervosa sufferers. Further it attempts to draw on their perceptions of what it is like being a male with a disorder that is often perceived as being a female phenomenon. The paper also explores the issues surrounding men and body image in contemporary Western culture. It highlights some of the significant issues confronting men and boys in relation to the social construction of masculinity and the links with body image concerns and eating disorders. Although the paper is not grounded in practitioner based information, it does seek to arouse awareness in those working in this emerging field of study.

scholarly journals Psychosocial Factors Related to Eating Disorders among High School and College Female Cheerleaders

1996 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 195-206 ◽  
Author(s):  
Justine J. Reel ◽  
Diane L. Gill
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Eating Disorders ◽  
Body Dissatisfaction ◽  
Eating Patterns ◽  
Social Physique Anxiety ◽  
Eating Disorder Inventory ◽  
College Female ◽  
The Social ◽  
Strong Relation ◽  
Disordered Eating Patterns

Seventy-three college female and 84 high school female cheerleaders participated in the current study on eating disorders and pressures within cheerleading. The participants completed the Eating Disorder Inventory (EDI), the Social Physique Anxiety Scale (SPAS), and CHEER, a measure developed by the authors to identify pressures within cheerleading. A one-way MANOVA indicated significant differences between high school and college cheerleaders on CHEER and SPAS. Correlational analyses revealed a strong relation between SPAS, body dissatisfaction scores, and eating behavior, suggesting that body image is an important predictor for eating disorders in cheerleaders. Moreover, although high school cheerleaders reported fewer pressures than their college counterparts, they exhibited greater body dissatisfaction and disordered eating patterns.

scholarly journals Stylistics on the linguistics text applied in a social approach to get a certain goal

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 38-49
Author(s):  
Georgia Elizabeth Vowel ◽  
David Koon Gorray ◽  
Nora Audrey
Keyword(s):  
Social Behavior ◽  
Basic Concept ◽  
Current Paper ◽  
New Method ◽  
Social Approach ◽  
The Public ◽  
Community Interaction ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Common ◽  
Public Person

The stylistics on the linguistics has an important role in the text applied. The social approach is one way how to get a certain goal. In this case, the brilliant solution to solve the problem based on the new method and procedure that can we did. For the public person in the word, the common way can not be avoided a social behavior as well as the community interaction. The current paper explained and explore how it can be done based on a certain way. Of course, the basic concept should be maintained, therefore, in solving the problem those are two principle concept must be had. The first is a success and the second is study.

scholarly journals Striving for liminality: Eating disorders and social suffering

2018 ◽  
Vol 55 (4) ◽  
pp. 475-494 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karin Eli
Keyword(s):  
Eating Disorders ◽  
Institutional Constraints ◽  
Social Suffering ◽  
Eating Disordered ◽  
Policy Initiatives ◽  
Eating Disorder Prevention ◽  
The Social ◽  
Economic Forces ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
Disorder Prevention

In this article, I argue that eating disorders constitute a form of social suffering, in which sufferers embody liminality as a response to, and a reflection of, oppressive sociality, structural violence, and institutional constraints. Based on the illness narratives of people with anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and their subclinical variants in Israel, the analysis draws the experiential, the social, and the structural into critical focus. These narratives, which delineate lived experiences of self-starving, bingeing, and purging, and the attendant viscerality of hunger, fullness, and emptiness, reveal how participants developed an embodied drawing inward and away, being at once within and without society for extended periods of time, through eating disordered practices. This liminal positioning, I argue, was a mode through which participants cultivated alternative (if temporary) personal spaces, negotiated identities, and anesthetized pain: processes many deemed essential to survival. Embedding the participants’ narratives of eating disordered experiences within familial, societal, and political-economic forces that shaped their individual lives, I examine the participants’ striving for liminality as at once intimately embodied and structurally mapped. The analysis suggests that policy initiatives for eating disorder prevention must address the social suffering that eating disorders manifest: suffering caused by structures and institutions that reinforce social inequality, violence, and injustice.

scholarly journals Ansiedade física social e comportamentos alimentares de risco em contexto desportivo

2012 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 143-155
Author(s):  
Ana Sofia Malheiro ◽  
Maria João Gouveia
Keyword(s):  
Eating Disorders ◽  
Anxiety Scale ◽  
Social Physique Anxiety ◽  
Eating Disorders Inventory

Este estudo pretende contribuir para a compreensão dos factores que podem predispor o atleta de competição a desenvolver comportamentos e atitudes de risco, características das perturbações alimentares. Procura-se avaliar a relação entre ansiedade física social e os comportamentos e atitudes alimentares características das perturbações alimentares e verificar se factores particulares do contexto desportivo tinham influência nesta relação (tipo de modalidade).Compararam-se também as atitudes e comportamentos alimentares de risco, nos grupos de não-atletase atletas. Foram aplicadas as versões portuguesas do Social Physique Anxiety Scale – SPAS (Abreu, no prelo) e do Eating Disorders Inventory – EDI (Carmo, Galvão-Teles, Bouça, no prelo) a 200 jovens do sexo feminino (100 estudantes universitárias, 25 ginastas, 25 nadadoras, 25 futebolistas e 25 andebolistas).Confirmou-se a existência de uma forte correlaçãopositiva entre a ansiedade física social e as atitudes e comportamentos alimentares de risco. Nos grupos de ginástica e natação, esta relação foi bastante mais forte que a existente no grupo das não-atletas. Quanto à presença de sintomas psicopatológicos característicos das perturbações alimentares, o grupo das atletas obteve uma pontuação superior em várias das sub-escalas do EDI-2, comparativamente ao grupo das não-atletas. Encontraram-se diferenças significativas no desejo de emagrecer, bulimia, desconfiança interpessoal, mal-estar interoceptivo, medo de maturidade e ascetismo. Na comparação entre as várias modalidades os grupos de futebol e de ginástica apresentaram resultados superiores aos das não-atletas.

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