Eating Disorders: The Woman in the Mirror: How to Stop Confusing What You Look Like With Who You Are.

The woman in the mirror: how to stop confusing what you look like with who you are.

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Eat Disord. 2013 Mar; 21(2): 175-6
Parekh RJ

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Insecure attachment and disordered eating in women: the mediating processes of social comparison and emotion dysregulation.

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Eat Disord. 2013 Mar; 21(2): 154-74
Ty M, Francis AJ

Few studies have examined potential intermediary processes linking insecure attachment with eating disorders. The purpose of this study was to compare the relative contributions of social comparison and emotion dysregulation on disordered eating symptoms within an attachment framework. Participants were 247 women living in Australia, aged between 18 and 35 years. All the study variables were moderately, positively correlated. Disordered eating was most highly correlated with emotion dysregulation, whilst correlation magnitudes with both attachment styles were comparable. Multiple mediation analysis was performed using bootstrapping procedures. Consistent with hypotheses, the mediating roles of social comparison and emotion dysregulation were supported, suggesting they may be processes through which insecure attachment influences disordered eating. Results highlight the need for intervention to focus not only on eating symptomatology, but also on the ways in which eating disorders are maintained through maladaptive self-regulatory and comparison processes.
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Self-esteem and social anxiety in an adolescent female eating disorder population: age and diagnostic effects.

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Eat Disord. 2013 Mar; 21(2): 140-53
Obeid N, Buchholz A, Boerner KE, Henderson KA, Norris M

This study explored symptoms of social anxiety and multidimensional self-esteem in a clinical, adolescent female eating disorder population. Using self-report measures, data from 344 females revealed significant negative relationships between dimensions of self-esteem and social anxiety. A diagnostic difference emerged, with the restricting subgroup reporting significantly higher perceived physical appearance and global self-worth than those with binge/purge symptoms or bulimia nervosa. No significant age differences or age by diagnosis interaction effects emerged. These findings suggest that in clinical samples of adolescent eating disorders, self-esteem and social anxiety share a significant inverse relationship and seem to remain fairly constant across adolescence.
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