Differences in Emerging-Adult Women's Body Image and Sexuality Outcomes According to BMI and Dating Status

Salafia, Elizabeth H. Blodgett; Benson, Kristen

doi:10.1080/19317611.2013.801932

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“…Body satisfaction may also differ in relation to relationship status. Blodgett Salafia and Benson (2013) found that women who were not dating had lower body satisfaction and more body self-consciousness compared to women who were dating.…”

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Body Image Development and Sexual Satisfaction: A Prospective Study From Adolescence to Adulthood

Kvalem

Træen

Marković

et al. 2018

The Journal of Sex Research

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The aim of the current study was to explore whether developmental trajectories of body satisfaction from adolescence to young adulthood predicted measures of sexual satisfaction in young adulthood, even when controlling for important covariates such as gender, weight development, relationship status, mental health, and frequency of sexual intercourse and masturbation. Data were collected from a population-based prospective cohort of Norwegian adolescents (n = 2,587) over a period of 13 years in four waves (1992, 1994, 1999, and 2005; mean age = 14.9 in 1992, 57.3% women). Latent growth curves were estimated for body satisfaction and Body Mass Index (BMI). Men reported higher sexual satisfaction, sexual activity, baseline body satisfaction, and BMI than women. The developmental trajectories revealed a slight increase in body satisfaction and BMI from adolescence to young adulthood in both genders. Moreover, structural equation models showed that baseline body satisfaction in both genders predicted sexual satisfaction as a young adult, independent of relationship status and frequency of sexual activity. Neither the development of BMI nor of body satisfaction predicted sexual satisfaction. The results elucidate the vital role of body satisfaction in sexual satisfaction in adults and the importance of addressing body dissatisfaction in childhood. Despite a well-documented cross-sectional association between body satisfaction and sexual satisfaction (Byers & Rehman, 2014; Woertman & van den Brink, 2012), knowledge about developmental processes explaining variations in sexual satisfaction is lacking. The body is a salient visual stimulus in social interactions, and our appearance is a source for both self-evaluation and communication from an early age (Cash, 2011). The current study contributes to the literature by providing information about how body satisfaction prospectively predicts sexual satisfaction for both women and men. The role of factors that may be confounders of the body satisfaction-sexual satisfaction association are also examined. For this purpose, data from a large, representative 13-year longitudinal study encompassing adolescence and young adulthood were used. The Relationship Between Sexual Satisfaction and Body Image Sexual satisfaction is "an affective response arising from one's subjective evaluation of the positive and negative dimensions associated with one's sexual relationships" (Lawrance

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Body Image Development and Sexual Satisfaction: A Prospective Study From Adolescence to Adulthood

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Træen

Marković

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“…These restrictive eating practices result in binge eating upon the breaking of a dietary rule, the latter of which is often precipitated by the experience of low mood. This model may be especially applicable during the transition from adolescence to adulthood, given body-related changes that accompany puberty (Klump, 2013) as well as an increased emphasis on appearance coinciding with the initiation of dating and sexual relationships (Blodgett Salafia & Benson, 2013). …”

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Overeating and binge eating in emerging adulthood: 10-year stability and risk factors.

Goldschmidt

Wall²,

Zhang

et al. 2016

Developmental Psychology

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Objective Overeating (eating an unusually large amount of food) and binge eating [overeating with loss of control (LOC)] predict adverse health consequences in adolescence. We aimed to characterize the stability of and risk factors for these distinct but inter-related constructs during critical developmental transitions. Methods A population-based sample (n=1,902) completed surveys at 5-year intervals spanning adolescence and young adulthood. The trajectories of no overeating, overeating, binge eating, and binge eating disorder (BED; recurrent binge eating with associated distress) were characterized using cross-tabulations. Body mass index, depressive symptoms, self-esteem, and body satisfaction were examined as risk factors for no overeating, overeating, and binge eating 5-years later using multinomial logistic regression. Results All overeating categories tended to remit to no overeating at 5-year follow-up. Although overeating had the lowest remittance rates at each time-point, binge eating and BED showed higher rates of persistence or worsening of symptoms during the transition from late adolescence/early young adulthood to early/middle young adulthood. Overeating and binge eating had similar risk factors, although for females, depressive symptoms, body satisfaction, and self-esteem in late adolescence/early young adulthood differentially predicted binge eating versus overeating in early/middle young adulthood (ps<.05). Conclusions While overeating with or without LOC tends to remit over time, problematic eating persists for a subset of individuals. Greater psychosocial problems in late adolescence/early young adulthood predicted greater odds of binge eating relative to overeating in early/middle young adulthood among females, indicating that poorer psychosocial functioning in this developmental stage portends more severe eating-related psychopathology later in life.

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The Role of Career Aspiration, Self-Esteem, Body Esteem, and Gender in Predicting Sense of Well-being Among Emerging Adults

Olenik‐Shemesh

Heiman

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2018

The Journal of Genetic Psychology

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Differences in Emerging-Adult Women's Body Image and Sexuality Outcomes According to BMI and Dating Status

Cited by 6 publications

References 80 publications

Body Image Development and Sexual Satisfaction: A Prospective Study From Adolescence to Adulthood

Body Image Development and Sexual Satisfaction: A Prospective Study From Adolescence to Adulthood

Overeating and binge eating in emerging adulthood: 10-year stability and risk factors.

The Role of Career Aspiration, Self-Esteem, Body Esteem, and Gender in Predicting Sense of Well-being Among Emerging Adults

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