The inter‐relationship between diet, selflessness, and disordered eating in Australian women

Collins, Melissa Lassiter; Quinton, Stephanie

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“…According to this approach, girls and women sacri ce their needs and starve themselves because of a poor sense of self [9]. Subsequent research with women has indeed found a signi cant association between sel essness and eating disorder symptoms [5,12,21].…”

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“…Another factor relevant to the connection between disordered eating and both measures of self-de ciency that remains to be explored is gender. Whereas a connection between sel essness and disordered eating has been consistently observed in women [10,12], no published studies to date have examined sel essness and disordered eating in men. Nor has gender been adequately examined in relation to the connection between disordered eating and concern for appropriateness.…”

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“…Sel essness is the tendency to relinquish one's own interests and ignore one's genuine needs in the service of others' interests and well-being. Although this characteristic was conceptualized, de ned and quanti ed in the context of patients with clinical eating disorders [9], an association between measures of disordered eating in the general population and scores on the Sel essness Scale (SS) [9] has consistently been found in research [12]. Sel essness has even been shown to predict the development of disordered eating over time [13].…”

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Associations of self-repression with disordered eating and symptoms of other psychopathologies for men and women

Bachner‐Melman

Watermann

Lev‐Ari

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Background: Disordered eating has been found to be associated with self-repression, specifically with selflessness, the tendency to relinquish one’s needs for others’, and concern for appropriateness, an alertness to information about social comparison and tendency to vary one’s behavior in different social situations. This study aimed to examine associations between these self-repression variables and symptoms of general psychopathology for women and men in a community sample. Methods: Two hundred and thirty-six participants (92 men) aged 18-76 (M=29.11+10.10) volunteered to complete measures of ED symptoms (EDE-Q), concern for appropriateness (CFA-CSV and CFA-ATSCI), selflessness (SS), and symptoms of depression (PHQ-9), anxiety (BSI-18 anx) and somatization (BSI-18 som) online. Structural equation models were built to assess pathways between the study variables for men and women separately. Results: A MANOVA 2*7 design showed that women scored significantly higher than men on the SS, EDE-Q and PHQ-9. For men, SS scores were positively and significantly associated only with PHQ-9 scores. CAS-CSV scores were positively associated with PHQ-9, BSI-18 som and BSI-18 anx scores. For women, SS scores were positively and significantly associated with PHQ-9, EDE-Q, BSI-18 som and BSI-18 anx scores. CAS-CSV scores were positively and significantly associated with PHQ-9, BSI-18 anx and BSI-18 som scores but not EDE-Q scores. CAS-ASCI scores were positively and significantly associated only with EDE-Q scores.Conclusions: Self-repression is a much more central path to psychopathology in women than in men. For men, self-suppression seems to play an important role in the development and maintenance of symptoms of internalizing disorders, but not disordered eating. Even for women, it appears that self-repression is not connected specifically with disordered eating, but with symptoms of psychopathology in general. Future research should explore why self-suppression plays such a central role in women’s psychopathology.

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Associations of self-repression with disordered eating and symptoms of other psychopathologies for men and women

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“…Selflessness is the tendency to relinquish one’s own interests and ignore one’s genuine needs in the service of others’ interests and well-being. Although this characteristic was conceptualized, defined and quantified in the context of patients with clinical eating disorders [ 26 ], an association between measures of disordered eating in the general population and scores on the Selflessness Scale (SS) [ 26 ] has consistently been found in research [ 26 , 27 , 29 – 31 ]. Selflessness has even been shown to predict the development of disordered eating over time [ 30 ].…”

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Associations of self-repression with disordered eating and symptoms of other psychopathologies for men and women

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Background Disordered eating has been found to be associated with constructs involving self-repression, such as selflessness (the tendency to relinquish one’s needs for others’), and concern for appropriateness (an alertness to information about social comparison and tendency to vary one’s behavior in different social situations). This study aimed to examine associations between these self-repression variables and symptoms of general psychopathology for women and men in a community sample. Methods Two hundred and thirty-six participants (92 men) aged 18–76 (M = 29.11 ± 10.10) volunteered to complete online measures of disordered eating, concern for appropriateness (cross-situational variability and attention to social comparison information), selflessness, and symptoms of depression, anxiety and somatization. Structural equation models were built to assess pathways between the study variables for men and women separately. Results A MANOVA 2*7 design showed that women scored significantly higher than men on measures of selflessness, disordered eating and depression. For men, selflessness scores were positively and significantly associated only with depression scores. Cross-situational variability scores were positively associated with depression, somatization and anxiety scores. For women, selflessness scores were positively and significantly associated with depression, disordered eating, somatization and anxiety scores. Cross-situational variability scores were positively and significantly associated with depression, anxiety and somatization scores but not with disordered eating scores. Attention to Social Comparison Information scores were positively and significantly associated only with disordered eating scores. Conclusions Self-repression is more closely linked to psychopathology in women than in men. For men, self-suppression seems to be associated with symptoms of internalizing disorders, but not disordered eating. Even for women, it appears that self-repression is not connected exclusively with disordered eating, but with symptoms of psychopathology in general. Future research should explore why self-suppression plays such a central role in women’s psychopathology.

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“…The vegetarian diet is harder to characterised: while full vegetarians avoid meat and fish completely, there are different types of vegetarian diets, such as pescetarians (inclusion of fish) and ovo-vegetarians (inclusion of eggs) (Heiss et al, 2017a;Timko et al, 2012). Previous research has questioned if different dietary patterns might be associated with more vulnerability for disordered eating behaviours (Brytek-Matera, 2020;Collins & Quinton, 2020;Timko et al, 2012).…”

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Understanding the omnivore, vegetarian, vegan, and paleo dietary patterns: How they differ in disordered eating indicators

Coimbra

Ferreira

2021

Rev Port Inv Comp Soc

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Background and Objective: Disordered eating behaviours are a spectrum of maladaptive eating behaviours that affect a substantial proportion of today's society, having been studied regarding their relationship with different dietary patterns. The present study aimed to better characterise the omnivore, vegan, vegetarian and palaeolithic (paleo) dietary patterns and explore dietary pattern's differences regarding disordered eating indicators, sociodemographic data, the motive of choice of dietary pattern and perception of health value. Method: All data were collected online, comprising a sample of 447 [omnivores (n = 281), vegetarians (n = 61), vegans (n = 50) and paleo (n = 55)] women from the general Portuguese population. Results: Results revealed that the dietary patterns differed regarding motive of choice (omnivores: "Family habit"; vegetarians and vegans: "Ethical/Moral"; paleo: "Weight/Shape control") and on the self-assessed health value of their dietary pattern, with the vegan and paleo diets reporting the highest values. Finally, the groups differed significantly regarding disordered eating, binge eating, and orthorexic behaviours, with the paleo group generally presenting the highest values. Conclusions: This study highlights the importance of exploring the individual's dietary pattern, including motive of choice, in the field of eating psychopathology, with an emphasis on the paleo diet as a risk factor. This means that prevention and intervention clinical guidelines should be developed for individuals with this dietary pattern.

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The inter‐relationship between diet, selflessness, and disordered eating in Australian women

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Associations of self-repression with disordered eating and symptoms of other psychopathologies for men and women

Associations of self-repression with disordered eating and symptoms of other psychopathologies for men and women

Associations of self-repression with disordered eating and symptoms of other psychopathologies for men and women

Understanding the omnivore, vegetarian, vegan, and paleo dietary patterns: How they differ in disordered eating indicators

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