Eating Disorders as Coping Mechanisms

Wagener, Amy M.; Much, Kari

doi:10.1080/87568225.2010.486291

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“…The home environment has an important influence on the development of EDs and/or DEBs (Jacobi et al 2004); in a systematic review of the causes of EDs, Polivy and Herman (2002) identify negative family environments and lack of familial support during early childhood as major risk factors for EDs. EDs are often understood as coping mechanisms for the perceived lack of control or support in the home environment (Polivy and Herman 2002;Wagener and Much 2010). Many societies emphasize culturally idealized thinness, and individuals with EDs are aware of the importance of this ideal, internalize it, and perceive pressure from the media and their peers to be thin (Levine and Murnen 2009).…”

Section: Eating Disorders and Disordered Eating Behaviorsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Young Women with Eating Disorders or Disordered Eating Behaviors

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Geist

2016

Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World

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Despite the well-documented link between eating disorders (EDs) and female infertility, it is unknown how EDs or disordered eating behaviors (DEBs) influence overall parity in early adulthood. Using longitudinal data, we examine whether EDs or DEBs during adolescence are linked to the number of children born to young women in early adulthood. We find that EDs or DEBs are associated with increased odds of having three or more children compared to no children in adulthood, even when we account for delinquency and sexual behaviors.

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Section: Eating Disorders and Disordered Eating Behaviorsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Young Women with Eating Disorders or Disordered Eating Behaviors

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2016

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“…These are narratives that have constructed alternative understandings of "anorexia" (Krug et al, 2013;Marzola et al, 2015;Racine & Wildes, 2013;Rance et al, 2017;Tierney & Fox, 2010;Wildes et al, 2010;Williams & Reid, 2010). In this context, it has been reported that negative, dominant, personal, discourses have adversely influenced the lives and living experiences of persons (MacNeil et al, 2012;Morris & Twaddle, 2007;Wagener & Much, 2010). In addition, persons have reported that their lived experiences with their relationship with "anorexia" have shown that "anorexic" behavior, feelings and thoughts, were coping mechanisms, or forms of resistance (e.g., Faija et al, 2017;Morris & Twaddle, 2007;Williams & Reid, 2012;Wagener & Much, 2010).…”

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“…These coping mechanisms provide ways of protection, defence, safety and resistance against stress, future challenges and anxieties, conflicts, unexpected and undesirable changes in the lives of those persons (Botha, 2014(Botha, , 2019e.g., MacNeil et al, 2012;Marzola et al, 2015;Schmidt & Treasure, 2006;Wagener & Much, 2010). The participants in the study by Williams & Reid (2012) indicated that anorexia "was their only way of coping because they had not learned other coping strategies; thus, they depended on their disorder and felt that they 'needed' it" as "their disorder enabled them to 'survive' their unpleasant experiences" (p. 804).…”

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“…These research studies have thus indicated that persons in relationship with "anorexia" have revealed that their universal patterns of behavior and lifestyle attitudes regarding food, weight, body size and shape, all of which are thought to be diagnostic criteria for a mental eating disorder called anorexia, function as coping mechanisms so as to resist the forces of specific, undesirable, unique, personal and dominant negative discourses in their lives. In other words, the negative discourses cause emotional pain, distress, anxiety and suffering, resulting in these persons having a desire to avoid the suffering caused, and consequently a person embraces "anorexic" behaviors in order to find a preferable way of living compared to the stress, pain and suffering from the negative discourses in their lives (e. g., Botha, 2019;Halse et al, 2008;MacNeil et al, 2012;Marzola et al, 2015;Shelley, 1997;Wagener & Much, 2010).…”

Section: Psychological Thoughtmentioning

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Analysing Anorexia Nervosa: Digital Logic Provides Alternative Meanings of Its Nature, Leading to Alternative Forms of Psychotherapy

Botha

2020

PSYCT

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The purpose of this article is to apply innovative analogue and digital thinking processes that, first, negate DSM (III to 5th Eds.) understandings of anorexia, and then formulate a bases which encapsulates alternative understandings of the universal patterns of behavior, understandings that honour and embrace the patterns of behavior expressed by each person. Published research of lived experiences of persons who exhibit patterns of behavior and attitudes towards food, weight, body shape and size, that are deemed to be diagnostic criteria of anorexia nervosa, provides evidence that those patterns of behavior serve as coping mechanisms against the suffocating forces of unwanted, specific, and personal discourses in their lives. As a consequence of this application, the article argues that these universal patterns of behavior and attitudes to food, weight and body image, expressed uniquely by each person, are expressions, images and ideas of a specific form of an archetype, with each person having their personal and unique reasons for their behavioral expressions. This analyses indicates that these persons do not “suffer from” a mental eating disorder called anorexia, and that psychotherapeutic approaches for each person should focus on the problems in their lives, problems that cause them to express the images and ideas of a universal archetype.

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“…Family modeling is another pathway that is related to high risk behaviors among women (Kluck, 2008). Moreover, individuals use unhealthy behaviors as coping mechanism in time of difficulties (Dube, Anda, Felitti, Edwards, & Croft, 2002;Wagener & Much, 2010).…”

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Prevalence of High Risk Behaviors among Women Living in Tehran

Dolatshahi¹,

Abasi²,

Pahlavani³

2016

PCP

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Objective: High risk behaviors among women can have detrimental consequences on this critical group of society and its increasing rate expose them to more serious dangers. In the light of these issues, the present study aimed to assess the prevalence of high risk behaviors of women living in Tehran. Hopefully, the study results may help take some measures to decrease high risk behaviors and solve some obstacles in preventing them. Methods:The present study was a cross-sectional research. The statistical population of the study was all women residing in Tehran, Iran. A total of 403 participants were recruited through multistage cluster sampling from 5 zones of Tehran with the mean(SD) age of 21.75(2.43) years. Six parts of each zone and then 1 avenue from each part were selected randomly for completing the questionnaires. At each part after gaining participants' informed consents, they were asked to fill in risky behavior survey questionnaire. Results:The obtained data were analyzed using SPSS-20. Result indicated that the prevalence of driving without license, speed driving, using phone while driving, being under the influence of alcohol and substance abuse while driving, using motor cycle without helmet, and sing a public transportation which driver is under the influence of drug or alcohol ranges from 2% to 7.7%., 3.2% to 6.7%, 2.7% to 9.7%, 0.7% to 2%., 0.5% to 6%, and 0.7% to 6.7% respectively in the last year. In regard to the prevalence of behaviors related to aggression, results demonstrated the prevalence of carrying cold weapon at university or workplace in the last month, carrying cold weapon for protecting oneself in the last year, physical contact in last year, avoiding going to university or workplace because of feeling unsafe in the last year, exposing to bullying or be bulled in the last year ranged from 0.5% to 3.5%, 0.5% to 4.2%, 1.2% to 10.9%, 1% to 9.9%, and 1.2% to 8.2%, respectively. The prevalence of other high risk be haviors, including suicidal thoughts in the last year, unsafe in tercourse, alcohol use, cigarette, narcotics, stimulants and illegal drugs were 20.6%, 18.4%, 34.5%, 45.4%, and 14.1%, respectively. Conclusion:Results demonstrating that the prevalence of high risk behaviors among women was almost similar to studies in European, American, other parts of world studies and also Iranian studies done before which show increasing rate of high risk behaviors especially addiction in women. As women are among the most vulnerable and at high risk groups, especially in Eastern societies, paying attention to their problems and searching for their causes, as well as developing solutions to help them is crucially important.

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Eating Disorders as Coping Mechanisms

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Cited by 15 publications

References 6 publications

Young Women with Eating Disorders or Disordered Eating Behaviors

Young Women with Eating Disorders or Disordered Eating Behaviors

Analysing Anorexia Nervosa: Digital Logic Provides Alternative Meanings of Its Nature, Leading to Alternative Forms of Psychotherapy

Prevalence of High Risk Behaviors among Women Living in Tehran

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