ArticleAppetite2016
Clarifying the prospective relationships between social anxiety and eating disorder symptoms and underlying vulnerabilities.
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27 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- The prospective relationship between anxiety symptoms and eating disorder symptoms among adolescents: a systematic review and meta-analysis of a bi-directional relationship.European child & adolescent psychiatry · 2025Pooled it
- Systematic Review of Digital Interventions for Adolescent and Young Adult Women's Body Image.Frontiers in global women's health · 2022Pooled it
- Emotional intelligence and eating disorders: a systematic review.Eating and weight disorders : EWD · 2021Pooled it
- Associations Between Social Appearance Anxiety, Disordered Eating Attitudes, and Orthorexia Nervosa: A Cross-Sectional Study.Brain and behavior · 2026Article
- Maladaptive perfectionism and experiential avoidance as transdiagnostic pathways between eating disorder and social anxiety symptoms in young adults.Journal of eating disorders · 2026Article
- Eating disorder symptoms and corresponding evidence-based treatments: a narrative review.Journal of eating disorders · 2026Review
- Learning to connect: feasibility, acceptability and experiences in the social domain intervention for eating disorders.Journal of eating disorders · 2025Article
- The mediating effects of smartphone addiction in the association between mental disorders and eating disorders: findings from a nationwide survey among Chinese youth.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Psychometric properties of the brief fear of negative evaluation scale-Straightforward items.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- What could be the reasons for not losing weight even after following a weight loss program?Journal of health, population, and nutrition · 2024Review
- Personality dimensions, depression, and eating behavior in individuals seeking bariatric surgery: a cluster analysis.Frontiers in nutrition · 2024Article
- Associations between Schizotypal Facets and Symptoms of Disordered Eating in Women.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Temperament and psychopathology in early childhood predict body dissatisfaction and eating disorder symptoms in adolescence.Behaviour research and therapy · 2022Article
- Symptom association between social anxiety disorder, appearance anxiety, and eating disorders among Chinese University students: A network analysis to conceptualize comorbidity.Frontiers in public health · 2022Article
- Relationship between eating disorders and internalized problems in chilean adolescents.Journal of eating disorders · 2021Article
- Validation of the Arabic version of the Eating Attitude Test in Lebanon: a population study.Public health nutrition · 2021Article
- Therapeutic Potentials of Ketamine and Esketamine in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD), Substance Use Disorders (SUD) and Eating Disorders (ED): A Review of the Current Literature.Brain sciences · 2021Article
- Conceptualizing eating disorder psychopathology using an anxiety disorders framework: Evidence and implications for exposure-based clinical research.Clinical psychology review · 2021Review
- Binge eating and social anxiety in treatment-seeking adolescents with eating disorders or severe obesity.Eating and weight disorders : EWD · 2020Article
- The relative importance of social anxiety facets on disordered eating in pediatric obesity.Eating and weight disorders : EWD · 2020Article
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Abstract
Social anxiety and eating disorders are highly comorbid. Several explanations for these high levels of comorbidity have been theorized. First, social anxiety might be a vulnerability factor for eating disorders. Second, eating disorders might be a vulnerability factor for social anxiety. Third, the two kinds of disorders may have common, shared psychological vulnerabilities. The current study (N = 300 undergraduate women) investigates a model of social anxiety and eating disorder symptoms that examines each of these possibilities across two time points (Time 1 and six months later). We do not find support for either social anxiety or eating disorder symptoms per se predicting each other across time. Instead, we find that some underlying vulnerabilities prospectively predict symptoms of both disorders, whereas other vulnerabilities are specific to symptoms of one disorder. Specifically we find that maladaptive perfectionism is a shared prospective vulnerability for social anxiety and eating disorder symptoms. Alternatively, we find that social appearance anxiety is specific for eating disorder symptoms, whereas high standards is specific for social anxiety symptoms. These data help clarify our understanding of how and why social anxiety and eating disorder symptoms frequently co-occur.
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