Research Tools for Assessing Eating Disorders

Anderson, Drew A.; Schaumberg, Katherine; Reilly, Erin E.

doi:10.1002/9781118574089.ch40

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“…Restrained eating was not associated with mindful eating or mindfulness and self-compassion. Given that previous research and theories have suggested restrained eating may pose as a risk for maladaptive eating behaviours and weight gain (Fairburn, 2008;Schur et al, 2010), it may explain the non-association of restrained eating with the three positive psychological constructs, consistent with some previous research (Anderson et al, 2016). Surprisingly, a small and non-significant negative association between mindful eating and sugar consumption was found within the present study.…”

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Exploring the association between self-compassion, mindfulness and mindful eating with eating behaviours amongst patients with obesity

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Background: People who have obesity often experience problematic eating behaviours, contributing towards their excessive weight gain. Aims: Understanding problematic eating behaviours and their association to self-compassion, mindfulness and mindful eating is important for the development of future interventions that improve weight-loss and weight-regulation. Methods: One hundred and one participants attending their first session of a 6-session dietetic programme within a Tier 3 medical weight management service in the West Midlands, UK were recruited to complete questionnaires on self-compassion, mindfulness, mindful eating and eating behaviours, such as, emotional, restrained, external, fat and sugar consumption and grazing. Results: The findings suggested all three constructs, self-compassion, mindfulness and mindful eating were significantly and negatively associated with grazing and emotional eating, but mindful eating was the only construct that also displayed a significant and negative association with other eating behaviours that are often barriers to successful weight regulation, such as external eating and fat consumption. Further investigation suggested mindful eating had an indirect effect on fat consumption and grazing via external eating. Conclusion: Whilst, self-compassion, mindfulness and mindful eating displayed a negative relationship with grazing and emotional eating, mindful eating also displayed a negative relationship with fat consumption and external eating. Possible explanations and directions for future work are discussed with an emphasis on the need for more empirical work.

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Exploring the association between self-compassion, mindfulness and mindful eating with eating behaviours amongst patients with obesity

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“…For decades, the most widely cited and supported sociocultural theories of body image and eating disturbance have emphasized that women are at higher risk for eating pathology when they overvalue and internalize the Western societal prescribed standard of thinness as the beauty ideal (Ata, Schaefer, & Thompson, 2015; Fairburn, Cooper, & Shafran, 2003; Fredrickson & Roberts, 1997; Thompson, Heinberg, Altabe, & Tantleff-Dunn, 1999). Consequently, there has been a plethora of research dedicated to the creation of measures that tap the various cognitive, behavioral, and affective facets of thin body ideal internalization (D. A. Anderson, Schaumberg, Reilly, & Anderson, 2015).…”

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“…Consequently, there has been a plethora of research dedicated to the creation of measures that tap the various cognitive, behavioral, and affective facets of thin body ideal internalization (D. A. Anderson, Schaumberg, Reilly, & Anderson, 2015). For example, some of the most popular scales tap the extent to which one accepts and/or desires a thin body ideal (e.g., the SATAQ and the Ideal Body Internalisation; Schaefer et al, 2015;Stice, 2001).…”

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Beyond the thin ideal: Development and validation of the Fit Ideal Internalization Test (FIIT) for women.

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Donovan²,

Zimmer‐Gembeck³

2020

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Females are at risk for body image and eating disturbance when they internalize societally prescribed standards of Western beauty. With respect to messages to be thin or muscular, numerous scales are available that measure internalization. However, many women are now receiving messages about the desirability of being both thin and toned, yet no self-report measure of internalization of a fit female body ideal exists. Our aim was to develop a multidimensional tool (i.e., the Fit Ideal Internalization Test; FIIT) useful for assessing women’s internalization of the fit ideal (i.e., a lean and toned body ideal). Three studies were conducted, recruiting independent groups of women attending university to complete surveys. In Study 1 (N = 300, age 16–51), women completed the FIIT items, and a 3-factor structure of fit idealization (8 items), fit overvaluation (8 items), and fit behavioral drive (4 items) was established through exploratory factor analysis. Also, items loading highly on each of the factors had good interitem correlations. In Study 2 (N = 354, age 16–63), women completed the 20-item FIIT and validation measures. The 3-factor structure of the FIIT was confirmed, and findings supported convergent, discriminant, and incremental validity of the FIIT subscale scores (and a total score). In Study 3 (N = 67, age 17–50), the 2-week test–retest reliability of the FIIT scores was high. Overall, the 3 FIIT subscales are related but also distinct domains of fit ideal internalization that conform to theory and may be used as individual subscales or potentially as a composite score.

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