ArticleAppetite2017
Social appearance anxiety and dietary restraint as mediators between perfectionism and binge eating: A six month three wave longitudinal study.
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- Risk and resilience in eating disorders: differentiating pathways among psychosocial predictors.Journal of eating disorders · 2024Article
- Perfectionism and binge eating association: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Journal of eating disorders · 2023Review
- Prevalence and associated factors of binge eating disorder among Bahraini youth and young adults: a cross-sectional study in a self-selected convenience sample.Journal of eating disorders · 2023Article
- Appearance anxiety and social anxiety: A mediated model of self-compassion.Frontiers in public health · 2023Article
- Validation of the Greek Version of Social Appearance Anxiety Scale in Adolescents and Young Adults.EMBnet.journal · 2023Article
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- Association Between Eating Disorder Risk and Family Structure and Social Appearance Anxiety Among College Freshman.Alpha psychiatry · 2022Article
- Nutrition knowledge moderates the association between perfectionism and shape/weight concerns.European journal of clinical nutrition · 2021Review
- Psychological Predictors of Unhealthy Eating Attitudes in Young Adults.Frontiers in psychology · 2019Article
- Male Nursing Students' Social Appearance Anxiety and Their Coping Attitudes.American journal of men's healthArticle
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Abstract
Binge eating is related to perfectionism and restrained eating. However, the mechanisms underlying these relationships are not well understood. It is possible that social anxiety, specifically social appearance anxiety (i.e., the fear of overall appearance evaluation), influences the relationship between binge eating, perfectionism, and dietary restraint. In the current study (N = 300 women), we tested the relationship between dietary restraint, social appearance anxiety, concern over mistakes (a component of perfectionism), and binge eating in prospective data (three time points: at baseline, at two month, and at six month follow up). We found that social appearance anxiety, dietary restraint, and concern over mistakes each predicted binge eating at baseline. Only social appearance anxiety prospectively predicted binge eating when accounting for all variables. Further, in the tested model, social appearance anxiety mediated the relationship between concern over mistakes and binge eating across six months. On the contrary, dietary restraint did not mediate the relationship between concern over mistakes and binge eating in the tested model. The finding that social appearance anxiety served as a mediator between concern over mistakes and binge eating, but that dietary restraint did not, implies that social appearance anxiety may be a more salient prospective predictor of binge eating than dietary restraint. Intervening on social appearance anxiety may be important in the treatment and prevention of binge eating.
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