A re-examination of body image distortion: evidence against a sensory explanation

Article Abstract:

A study was conducted on bulimic and normal women to establish the relationship between subjective size overestimation (body image distortion) and internal/external, sensory/environmental factors. Results have shown that bulimic women have a higher tendency to detect body size changes in the models than normal women due to their sensory abilities to recognize increases in size. However, they are not as good at detecting differences in the size of their own bodies therefore, contradicting the concept of body image distortion as a sensory perceptual phenomenon.

Bulimia, Body size, Body weights and measures

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Predicting level of restrained eating behavior in adult women

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Body dissatisfaction, self-esteem, negative affect and perceived problem-solving ability were examined as psychological predictors of the level of restrained eating in women. Women aged 30 to 60 participated in the experiment to assess the impact of each predictor on restrained eating behavior. Results show that negative affect and body dissatisfaction significantly predict the level of restrained eating in adult women. It was also found that the concept of restrained eating is relevant to women over 25.

Research, Self-esteem, Self esteem, Problem solving, Food habits, Affect (Psychology)

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Fear of negative evaluation and the development of eating psychopathology: A longitudinal study among nonclinical women

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The cross-sectional relationship between restrictive eating attitudes is replicated, and whether negative evaluation fears longitudinally predict changes in eating attitudes over a 7-month period is tested. Alongside depression, negative evaluation fears predicted an increase in bulimic attitudes, whereas self-esteem predicted an increase in body dissatisfaction.

United States, Analysis, Fear, Psychology, Pathological, Psychopathology

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