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Patient-identified events implicated in the development of body dysmorphic disorder.
Article in Body image, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.
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9 citing papers in PubMed, 46 citations in OpenAlex.
- Bullying as an Adverse Childhood Experience?-State of the Art.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Body Dysmorphic Disorder: 21st Century Challenges.International journal of dermatology · 2025Review
- Peer Relationships and Social Media Use in Adolescents with Body Dysmorphic Disorder.Research on child and adolescent psychopathology · 2025Article
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- A phenomenological exploration of self-identified origins and experiences of body dysmorphic disorder.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- Greater history of traumatic event exposure and PTSD associated with comorbid body dysmorphic disorder in a large OCD cohort.Psychiatry research · 2020Article
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- Appearance Teasing and Mental Health: Gender Differences and Mediation Effects of Appearance-Based Rejection Sensitivity and Dysmorphic Concerns.Frontiers in psychology · 2019Article
- Recent advances in understanding and managing body dysmorphic disorder.Evidence-based mental health · 2017Review
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Abstract
Little is known about the causes of body dysmorphic disorder (BDD), but researchers have proposed a diathesis-stress model. This study uses a patient-centered approach to identify stressful events to which patients attribute the development of their BDD symptoms. An Internet-recruited sample of 165 adults with BDD participated. A large minority of participants attributed the development of their BDD to a triggering event. Bullying experiences were the most commonly described type of event. Additionally, most events were interpersonal and occurred during grade school or middle school. There were no differences in severity of psychosocial outcomes between participants who did or did not attribute their BDD to a specific triggering event. However, participants who specifically attributed their BDD development to a bullying experience had poorer psychosocial outcomes (i.e., perceived social support, depression severity, functional impairment, quality of life) compared to those who attributed their BDD development to another type of triggering event.
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