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

Gilbert, Nicola; Meyer, Caroline

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“…5 A longitudinal study in women conducted by Gilbert & Meyer revealed that low SE predicted an increase in BD, and that fear of negative evaluation predicted an increase in bulimic attitudes and depression. 31 In accordance with other researchers 10,22 and considering total perfectionism (SOP and SPP), we found positive correlations between total ChEAT scores and this personality trait. Some previous studies also showed that SOP and SPP were associated with disordered eating behaviors in Portuguese adolescents 7 and young adults.…”

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Eating behaviors, body image, perfectionism, and self-esteem in a sample of Portuguese girls

Teixeira

Pereira

Marques

et al. 2016

Rev. Bras. Psiquiatr.

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Objective: Eating disorders are an increasingly prevalent health problem among adolescent girls. It is well known that biological, psychosocial, and family-related factors interact in the development of this group of disorders. However, the mechanisms underlying the interaction between these variables are still poorly understood, especially in Portuguese adolescents. The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between eating behaviors, body dissatisfaction, self-esteem, and perfectionism in a sample of Portuguese girls. Method: A community sample of 575 Portuguese girls attending secondary school, answered selfreport questionnaires including data on weight, height, and the Portuguese versions of the Contour Figures Rating Scale, the Child and Adolescent Perfectionism Scale, the Children Eating Attitudes Test, and the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale. SPSS version 20.0 for Windows was used for statistical analyses.Results: High scores in the Children Eating Attitudes Test were associated with significantly higher levels of body dissatisfaction (r = 0.339), socially prescribed perfectionism (r = 0.175), self-oriented perfectionism (r = 0.211), and low self-esteem (r = -0.292) (all p o 0.001). Self-oriented perfectionism partially mediated the relation between body dissatisfaction and disordered eating behaviors. Conclusion: In this sample, dysfunctional eating behaviors appeared to correlate strongly with body dissatisfaction, low self-esteem, and perfectionism in girls. These themes should be addressed among female adolescents in the community.

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confidence: 92%

Eating behaviors, body image, perfectionism, and self-esteem in a sample of Portuguese girls

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Marques

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“…It is not surprising that escape coping predicted bulimia as Heatherton and Baumeister (1991) found that bulimia is often an escape response. This result supported the findings by Gilbert and Meyer (2005) who reported that self-esteem contributed, albeit indirectly, to an increase in bulimic attitudes. In addition, this result is further confirmed by Blaase and Elklit (2001) who found that those suffering from eating disorders were more likely than those who were not to suffer from low self-esteem, utilize poor coping tactics, and have higher stress levels.…”

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“…In a longitudinal study of women conducted by Gilbert and Meyer (2005), results revealed that low self-esteem predicted an increase in body dissatisfaction and that negative evaluation fears predicted an increase in bulimic attitudes and depression. This result supports the idea that with low self-esteem as a primary catalyst, followed by dissatisfaction of one's body, bulimic symptoms and/or depression can follow.…”

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Is self-esteem the primary predictor of disordered eating?

Shea

Pritchard

2007

Personality and Individual Differences

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This is an author-produced, peer-reviewed version of this article. © 2009, Elsevier. Licensed under the Creative Commons AttributionNonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). The final, definitive version of this document can be found online at Personality and Individual Differences, doi: 10.1016Differences, doi: 10. /j.paid.2006 1 NOTICE: This is the author's version of a work accepted for publication by Elsevier. Changes resulting from the publishing process, including peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting and other quality control mechanisms, may not be reflected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. The definitive version has been published in Personality and Individual Differences, 42, March 2007. DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2006 Is Self-Esteem the Primary Predictor of Disordered Eating? Maureen E. Shea Mary Pritchard Boise State University AbstractThis study examined whether self-esteem is the primary predictor of disordered eating. A survey measured levels of self-esteem and a variety of other health behaviors in 196 male and 263 female undergraduate students. We conducted stepwise regressions to determine which of several variables (self-esteem, high stress, poor coping skills, maladaptive perfectionism, gender) best predicted disordered eating. The results indicated that self-esteem was the secondary predictor for bulimia, drive for thinness, and body dissatisfaction. Future research should further investigate how self-esteem interacts with other predictor variables to better determine the relationship between self-esteem and disordered eating.Eating disorders are becoming increasingly common among American college students today. Precise estimates of incidence and prevalence vary, but tend to range from about 3% to 10% for females 15-29 years of age (Polivy & Herman, 2002) and about 2.4% for males (Espina, Ortego, Ochoa, Aleman, & Juaniz, 2002). Although a majority of the research in the field of eating disorders focuses on women, recently attention to these topics in males has been on the rise (Pope, Phillips, & Olivardia, 2002). In fact, it has been estimated that 10% of the people with anorexia and bulimia nervosa are men (Weltzin et al., 2005).It is undisputed that low self-esteem contributes to disordered eating. For example, Button, Loan, Davies, and Sonuga- Barke (1997) found that girls who displayed eating disordered behaviors also reported lower self-esteem. In addition, girls with higher levels of disordered eating behaviors displayed higher levels of overall dissatisfaction with themselves, their appearance, and their family relationships. Furthermore, it has been shown that low selfesteem is positively correlated to disordered eating in college students (Granillo, Jones-Rodriguez, & Carvajal, 2005) and a decrease in self-esteem contributes to poorer body image (Abell & Richards, 1996;Gleason, Alexander, & Somers, 2000) and bulimic symptoms (Vohs, Bardone, ...

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“…Because boys develop a sense of physical mastery, instrumentality, and self-determination through the process of becoming physically fit (Bas, & Donmez, 2009;Hausenblas, Cook, & Chittester, 2008;Hands et al, 2009), they may be more focused on what their bodies can do than on achieving societal appearance standards (Bers & Quinlan, 1992;Gilbert, & Meyers, 2005;Lundgren, Anderson, & Thompson, 2004) and thus view food more as fuel to help their bodies "perform" than as a source of calories that would make them fat. For example, Moy, Petrie, Dockendorff, Greenleaf, and Martin (2013) examined self-reported dietary restraint, exercise, and intuitive eating in early adolescent boys and girls.…”

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A Biopsychosocial Model of Dietary Restraint in Early Adolescent Boys

Mitchell

Petrie

Greenleaf

et al. 2016

The Journal of Early Adolescence

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The current study replicated and extended previous research on disordered eating and dietary intent (i.e., self-reported restriction of caloric intake with the purpose of losing weight) in boys and men by examining the direct and indirect influence of sociocultural pressure, social body comparisons, internalization of societal appearance ideals, body dissatisfaction, self-esteem, body composition, and cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF) on dietary restraint. Participants were 681 boys (X age = 12.49 years, SD = 0.99) from six middle schools located in the south central United States. Using structural equation modeling (SEM), 32% to 35% of the Dietary Restraint variance was explained across two independent samples. Pressures to lose weight and diet predicted all the psychosocial outcomes, whereas higher levels of (CRF) predicted higher levels of body satisfaction and self-esteem and lower body mass indices (BMIs), which predicted lower dietary restraint. The results from this study support a multifactorial approach to understanding boys' dietary behaviors.

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

Cited by 123 publications

References 27 publications

Eating behaviors, body image, perfectionism, and self-esteem in a sample of Portuguese girls

Eating behaviors, body image, perfectionism, and self-esteem in a sample of Portuguese girls

Is self-esteem the primary predictor of disordered eating?

A Biopsychosocial Model of Dietary Restraint in Early Adolescent Boys

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