BACKGROUND We sought to evaluate the hypothesis that mental health impairment in underweight women, where this occurs, is due to an association between low body weight and elevated levels of body dissatisfaction and/or eating-disordered behaviour. METHODS Subgroups of underweight and normal-weight women recruited from a large, general population sample were compared on measures of body dissat...

Obesity is a major health problem in the United States and a growing concern among members of the military. Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) has been associated with overweight and obesity and may increase the risk of those conditions among military service members. Disordered eating behaviors have also been associated with PTSD and weight gain. However, eating disorders remain understudied...

Three-factor model posits that a three-way interaction between weight concern, perfectionism, and self-efficacy predict changes in disordered eating but has proved difficult to replicate. The aim of this study was to investigate a revised model, examining a three-way interaction between concerns, perfectionism, and self-compassion in predicting changes in disordered eating. Women (N=55) with a ...

Targeting perfectionism in psychological treatment has shown to be effective in improving negative affect, one of the two most potent risk factors for eating disorders (Fittig & Jacobi, 2010), and decreasing symptomology of disordered eating. The study aimed to evaluate the efficacy of a guided self-help intervention focussed on perfectionism to improve negative affect and the symptoms of disor...

Symptoms of depression and eating disorders increase during adolescence, particularly among girls, and they tend to co-occur. Despite this evidence, there is meager research on whether depression increases the risk of future eating pathology, or vice versa, and we do not know whether these processes are different for adolescent girls and boys. Accordingly, this study explored the prospective re...

Disordered eating attitudes and behaviors appear to be quite common in youth, and overweight youth have been identified as a subset of the population at particularly high risk for endorsing such symptoms. Overweight and eating disorder (ED) symptomatology independently confer significant threats to one's physical and psychosocial health, showing strong links with body weight gain and risk for E...

Abstract Purpose Disordered eating (DE) has been associated with elevated anxiety, high stress, and low self-esteem occurs often in sports where weight is a limiting factor. Sport climbing general provides combination these aspects but the relevance of body differs different types (e.g., supported top rope vs non-supported bouldering). To date, differences have yet investigated, while they migh...

Research on body image and eating behaviours is well established in young adults. However, less is known about body image and eating behaviours in women and men in midlife (30-60 years), and it is an age when certain biological, psychological, and social changes occur that can challenge body image. This study aimed to explore the gender similarities and differences in body dissatisfaction and d...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study is to investigate the adequacy of a general interview schedule for the purpose of assessing bulimia nervosa. METHOD In two waves of data collection 18-24 months apart, 250 women were assessed for disordered eating. The first interview was typical of that included in many psychiatric interview schedules and was used to screen women for selection in a subsequent ...