ReviewHeliyon2022
Integrative review on psychological and social risk and prevention factors of eating disorders including anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa: seven major theories.
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19 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 34 citations in OpenAlex.
- Associations of Problematic Smartphone Use and Smartphone Screen Time With Eating Disorder Psychopathology in Non-Clinical Samples: A Systematic Review.JMIR mental health · 2026Pooled it
- Population-based RCT of a digital cognitive-behavioural guided self-help intervention for anxiety, depression and eating disorders in college students.Nature human behaviour · 2026Trial
- Psychological Assessment of Patients With Apical Periodontitis and Caries: A Case-Control Study.International endodontic journal · 2026Observational
- Factor Structure and Measurement Invariance Across Gender of the Eating Disorder Examination Questionnaire-Short Form in Italian Workers.European journal of investigation in health, psychology and education · 2026Article
- Eating attitudes across body mass index categories in Saudi Arabia: a cross-sectional study.Frontiers in nutrition · 2026Article
- "It didn't feel like they cared": exploring factors that influence privacy and disclosure in disordered eating and eating disorders (DEEDs).Journal of eating disorders · 2025Article
- Global, regional, and national burden of eating disorders in 204 countries and territories, 1990-2021: findings from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021.Journal of eating disorders · 2025Article
- Association Between Nursing Education and Risk of Eating Behavior Disorders Among Undergraduate Students.Nursing reports (Pavia, Italy) · 2025Article
- Psychological resilience as emotional armour in family dysfunction and food addiction among Ghanaian tertiary students.Eating and weight disorders : EWD · 2025Article
- 'Do no harm' - the impact of an intervention for addictive eating on disordered eating behaviours in Australian adults: secondary analysis of the TRACE randomised controlled trial.Journal of eating disorders · 2025Article
- Moderating Effect of Metacognition on the Relationship between Perfectionism, Body Image Disturbance, and Body Mass Index in Anorexia Nervosa: A Cross-Sectional Study.Consortium psychiatricum · 2025Article
- Trends in the prevalence of anorexia nervosa among individuals under 45 years in China, 1992-2021: an age-period-cohort analysis.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
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- Do changes in eating behaviors signal rising mental health concerns among Saudi high schoolers?BMC psychology · 2024Article
- Weight gained during treatment predicts 6-month body mass index in a large sample of patients with anorexia nervosa using ensemble machine learning.The International journal of eating disorders · 2024Article
- Atypical social cognition processing in bulimia nervosa: an fMRI study of patients thinking of others' mental states.BioPsychoSocial medicine · 2024Article
- Unveiling Skin Manifestations: Exploring Cutaneous Signs of Malnutrition in Eating Disorders.Cureus · 2023Review
- Risk factors of disordered eating in adolescent girls from a community sample: a multidimensional approach.Consortium psychiatricum · 2023Article
- Predictive factors of disordered eating among adolescents in Bosnia and Herzegovina.Journal of education and health promotion · 2023Article
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Abstract
Across the globe, disordered eating disorders alarmingly have increased by over 30% in the general public, as characterised by a wide range of eating, shape and weight concerns. Subsequent physical, functional, social, and mental health issues significantly burden society, conveying various personal sufferings to affected individuals. Disordered eating behaviours and cognitions can increase to clinical severity, such as anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa. The present study critically reviewed over 100 major papers on disordered eating to integrate theoretical underpinnings and explore practical insights. The review resulted in identifying seven major theories concerning the development and persistence of disturbed eating behaviour. These include self-esteem theory, interpersonal theory, emotion regulation theory, executive function theory, social neuroscience theory, theory of mind, and trans-diagnostic theory. Furthermore, depression, anxiety, social norms and family functioning also emerged as major psychological and social correlates of disordered eating. The results further suggested significant research gaps and inconsistencies, including directional ambiguity between self-esteem and body dissatisfaction, self-esteem and depression, and executive functioning and eating, as well as mixed findings pertaining to theory of mind deficits, such as perspective taking and emotion recognition, and family functioning. Prospective empirical studies should incorporate these complexities and investigate underlying multiple psychological mediation mechanisms, preferably with experimental designs and longitudinal studies for further causal explanations.
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