Shape And Weight Based Self-Esteem Inventory

An eating disorder-specific model of interpersonal psychotherapy (IPT-ED): Causal pathways and treatment implications

“…Indeed, it may be that general negative feedback is only related to eating disorder symptoms among vulnerable individuals, as several studies have found (Oliver et al, 2001;Stroud et al, 2000;Tanofsky-Kraff et al, 2000;Tuschen-Caffier & Vögele, 1999). In particular, general negative social evaluation may trigger eating disorder symptoms among those for whom beliefs regarding the self and body shape/weight are strongly linked (Fairburn et al, 2003;Geller, Johnston, & Madsen, 1997;Vitousek & Hollon, 1990). For these individuals, challenges to self-esteem will have pronounced implications for body-esteem, with body dissatisfaction in turn triggering engagement in eating disorder behaviors such as maladaptive weight control behaviors and binge eating.…”

How do I evaluate myself? The importance of examining muscularity-based self-esteem in risk for eating disorder symptoms

“…Consistent with hypotheses, women endorsed greater shape-and weight-based self-esteem than men and men endorsed greater muscularity-based self-esteem than women. Yet, both shape and weight-based self-esteem related to lower global Research with female university students, women "at-risk" of developing an eating disorder, and clinical samples of women with eating disorders (e.g., anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa) demonstrates that basing self-esteem on appearance relates to decreased overall self-esteem (Geller et al, 1997;Tchanturia et al, 2002;Trottier et al, 2013); yet this study is among the rst to clarify how basing self-esteem on different forms of appearance relates to self-esteem in men. Further, past research highlights muscularity concerns prominence for men (Ganson et al, 2023;Nagata et al, 2020), yet no research has investigated the relevance of muscularity as a construct distinct from shape and weight.…”

“…The Shape and Weight Based Self-Esteem Inventory (SAWBS; Geller et al, 1997). Participants completed a version of the SAWBS that was adapted for administration online (versus paper and pencil) and included muscularity as one of the domains.…”

“…Thus, the assessment of the degree that men and women base their self-esteem on muscularity as a domain distinct from other appearance-based categories such as shape and weight. Furthermore, we translated the SAWBS (Geller et al, 1997), a pencil measure of shape-and weight-based self-esteem, into an easily used online measure. The online measure automatically calculates the degrees that each domain "makes up" the pie, omitting the need for researchers to measure and document participants' physical drawings.…”