Perceptions of the Body in Anorexia Nervosa

Selective mood‐induced body image disparagement and enhancement effects: Are they due to cognitive priming or subjective mood?

“…As expected, negative body image was positively correlated with BMI, indicating that negative body image is associated with being overweight. Also, the findings converged with previous research in revealing that negative body image is positively correlated with depression (Cooper & Taylor, 1988;Fallon & Rozin, 1990;Freeman et al, 1983;Garfinkel & Garner, 1984). This finding attests to the link between negative body image and psychological maladjustment in females.…”

“…In addition, it would be worthwhile to place these findings in the context of eating disorders. For example, women who are high in negative body image and have highly accessible appearance cognitions tend to develop various eating problems, such as restrained eating (Cash & Labarge, 1996;Cooper & Taylor, 1988;Freeman et al, 1983;Garfinkel & Garner, 1984). Consistent with the study by Plies and Florin (1992), individuals with given eating disorders may be prone to the selective mood-induced body image disparagement and body image enhancement effects.…”

“…A number of studies have yielded a correlation between individuals' depression and the negativity of their body image (Cooper & Taylor, 1988;Fallon & Rozin, 1985;Garfinkel & Garner, 1984). Based on those findings, researchers examined the hypothesis that depressive/negative mood state is a cause of negative body image.…”

“…Body image has been conceptualized in research as a person's mental construct entailing his or her perceptions, thoughts, feelings, and behaviors regarding the appearance of his or her body (Cash & Pruzinsky, 1990;Markus, Hamill, & Sentis, 1987;Thompson, 1992). Researchers have found that eating disorders are associated with disturbances in body image, a finding that has prompted an extensive investigation of body image (Cooper & Taylor, 1988;Freeman, Thomas, Solyom, & Miles, 1983;Garfinkel & Garner, 1984).…”

Effect of mood and food cues on body image in women with bulimia and controls

“…Moreover, significant associations have been reported between symptom measures of low mood and body image distortion/dissatisfaction among anorexic (Garfinkel & Garner, 1984;Strober, 1981), bulimic (Freeman, Thomas, Solyom, & Miles, 1983;Lindholm & Wilson, 1988), depressed (Beck, 1973), psychiatric inpatient (Archer & Cash, 1985), and nonclinical populations (Berscheid, Walster, & Bohrnstedt, 1973;Taylor & Cooper, 1986;Fabian & Thompson, 1989;Goldberg & Folkins, 1974;Lindholm & Wilson, 1988;Marsella, Shizuru, Brennan, & Kameoka, 1981;Noles, Cash, & Winstead, 1985;Thompson & Thompson, 1986).…”