ArticleBehaviour research and therapy2022
Temperament and psychopathology in early childhood predict body dissatisfaction and eating disorder symptoms in adolescence.
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- Validation of two body scales for assessment of thin-ideal and muscularity-ideal body dissatisfaction among Chinese adult females.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Exploring Reciprocal Associations Between Self-Reported Anxiety and Eating Disorder Symptoms Longitudinally: A Bivariate Latent Change Score Approach.The International journal of eating disorders · 2025Article
- Psychometric evaluation of the Chinese body shape questionnaire short form for assessing eating disorder symptoms among university students.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- Biopsychosocial correlates of body satisfaction in 7- to 8-year old children: a cross-sectional and prospective investigation.Journal of eating disorders · 2024Article
- Nutritional Modulation of the Gut-Brain Axis: A Comprehensive Review of Dietary Interventions in Depression and Anxiety Management.Metabolites · 2024Review
- Anorexia nervosa through the lens of a severe and enduring experience: 'lost in a big world'.Journal of eating disorders · 2024Article
- Systematic review of prospective studies assessing risk factors to predict anorexia nervosa onset.Journal of eating disorders · 2023Review
- Risk factors of disordered eating in adolescent girls from a community sample: a multidimensional approach.Consortium psychiatricum · 2023Article
- Associations between sex differences, eating disorder behaviors, physical and mental health, and self-harm among Chinese adolescents.Journal of eating disorders · 2023Article
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Abstract
Eating disorders (ED) are highly impairing and dangerous conditions that typically onset in adolescence. However, very few prospective studies have examined early childhood risk factors for ED pathology. Given well-established links between temperament and psychopathology, examination of these factors could inform prevention efforts. The current multi-method, multi-informant prospective longitudinal study tested whether laboratory-observed and parent-reported temperament and psychiatric disorders at ages 3 and 6 (N = 609) predict body dissatisfaction at ages 12 and 15 and dimensional symptoms of EDs (anorexia nervosa [AN] and bulimia nervosa [BN]) at age 15 (n = 458) in a community sample. Results indicated that early childhood temperament (positive and negative emotionality, perceptual sensitivity, impulsivity, less shyness) and childhood psychopathology (anxiety, oppositional defiant, attention deficit/hyperactivity, and depressive disorders), predicted body dissatisfaction in adolescence. In addition, childhood perceptual sensitivity and oppositional defiant and depressive disorders predicted AN symptoms. Demographic characteristics (female sex, lower levels of fathers' education, and parental marital status) in childhood predicted body dissatisfaction and AN symptoms. No temperament or psychopathology variables predicted BN symptoms. This study is an important first step toward continuing to identify areas of focus for future research on early childhood risk factors for ED symptoms and body dissatisfaction.
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