ArticleEating and weight disorders : EWD2021
Revisiting the relationship between body dissatisfaction and eating disorder symptoms in Chinese adolescents: the mediating roles of regulatory emotional self-efficacy and depression symptoms.
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- Body image dissatisfaction and disordered eating behaviors in Chinese female undergraduate students: the mediating role of emotional regulation strategies.Journal of eating disorders · 2025Article
- The mediating role of anxiety and depression between problematic social media use and bulimia nervosa among Lebanese university students.Journal of eating disorders · 2023Article
- Regulatory emotional self-efficacy and psychological distress among medical students: multiple mediating roles of interpersonal adaptation and self-acceptance.BMC medical education · 2022Article
- Using machine learning to explore core risk factors associated with the risk of eating disorders among non-clinical young women in China: A decision-tree classification analysis.Journal of eating disorders · 2022Article
- Association of body perception and dietary weight management behaviours among children and adolescents aged 6-17 years in China: cross-sectional study using CHNS (2015).BMC public health · 2022Article
- The relationship between body weight and dietary restraint is explained by body dissatisfaction and body image inflexibility among young adults in China.Eating and weight disorders : EWD · 2021Article
- The Relationship between Body Dissatisfaction and Eating Disorder Symptoms in Young Women Aspiring Fashion Models: The Mediating Role of Stress.European journal of investigation in health, psychology and education · 2021Article
- The Influence of Self-Efficacy and Locus of Control on Body Image: A Path-Analysis in Aspiring Fashion Models, Athletes and Students.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
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purposeEven though many studies have investigated the relationship between body dissatisfaction and eating disorder symptoms, the relationship is still far from being clear, especially about what factors that could potentially mediate such relationship. This study aimed to examine the direct pathway in the relationship between body dissatisfaction and eating disorder symptoms, and possible mediation pathways between the two via regulatory emotional self-efficacy and depression symptoms.
methodsA sample of 654 adolescents from central China completed questionnaires for a set of study variables. Modeling analysis was conducted that examined the direct pathway between body dissatisfaction and eating disorder symptoms, and the mediating roles of regulatory emotional self-efficacy and depression symptoms between these two constructs. Multi-group modeling analysis was conducted to assess model invariance across gender and age groups.
resultsThe results showed that, in addition to the direct pathway between body dissatisfaction and eating disturbances, regulatory emotional self-efficacy and depression symptoms partially mediated the relationship between these two constructs. Results of multi-group invariance analysis showed that the mediation model was consistent across gender and age groups. DISCUSSION: These results indicated that management of regulatory emotional self-efficacy and appropriate intervention for depression could potentially buffer against the negative impact of body dissatisfaction on eating disorder symptoms. Finally, some potential clinical implications are discussed, and possible preventions for eating disorder symptoms are suggested. LEVEL OF EVIDENCE: V, Cross-sectional descriptive study.
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