The mediating role of appearance comparisons on the relationship between negative appearance commentary and binge eating symptoms
| Autor: | Serena D. Stevens, Sylvia Herbozo, Idia B. Thurston |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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050103 clinical psychology
Mediation (statistics) Adolescent Binge eating 05 social sciences Psychological intervention 050109 social psychology Human physical appearance Developmental psychology Young Adult Psychiatry and Mental health Clinical Psychology Social Perception Body Image medicine Humans Female 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Self Report Bulimia medicine.symptom Young adult Psychology Body mass index Psychopathology |
| Zdroj: | Eating Behaviors. 26:155-158 |
| ISSN: | 1471-0153 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.eatbeh.2017.03.008 |
| Popis: | While the frequency of weight-based teasing during childhood/adolescence has been linked to eating disturbance, limited research has examined the impact of negative appearance commentary experienced in young adulthood. Appearance comparisons have been shown to mediate the relationship between weight-based teasing frequency in childhood/adolescence and eating disturbance; however, less is known about the impact of other forms of negative appearance commentary and binge eating symptoms. The current study examined appearance comparisons to others as a mediator of the relationship between the impact of negative appearance commentary from interpersonal sources and binge eating symptoms in college women. Three hundred and seventeen young adult women from universities in the southwest and midsouth U.S. completed measures of appearance-related commentary, physical appearance comparisons, and binge eating symptoms. Controlling for body mass index, the mediation effect of appearance comparisons was tested using the PROCESS macro for SPSS. Appearance comparisons was a significant mediator of the relationship between the impact of negative appearance comments and binge eating symptoms, F(3,312)=40.256, p |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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