The aim of this study was to determine the potential relationship among borderline personality disorder traits, specific aspects of narcissism, and different elements of eating pathology. Fifty-two nonclinical female participants completed standardized measures of narcissism, borderline personality disorder traits, and eating pathology. Data were analyzed using correlations. Specific associatio...

The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence and correlates of exercise motivated by health and weight/shape reasons. In total, 301 participants (53.5% males) completed questionnaires assessing eating behaviors, affect, self-esteem and attitudes toward exercise. Almost 48% of the participants reported that their exercise is motivated by weight/shape reasons. These individuals were more...

PURPOSE Recent research suggests an emergence of eating disorders [ED] in non-western settings for unknown reasons. This research investigates the presence of ED in Khartoum State [Sudan], and explores relevant factors amongst women at risk of ED and stakeholders involved with mental health care and policy-making. METHODS Women from four summer schools were approached and screened for risk of...

Eating attitudes can be defined as beliefs, thoughts, feelings, behavior and relationship with food. They can influence people's food choices and health status. The scope of this paper is to compare eating attitudes of university students from different regions of Brazil and investigate possible associations and correlations with nutritional status, age, individual income and parental education...

BACKGROUND Presently, the internet plays a big role in daily life, especially for adolescents. In this age group, they are more concerned about their face and body shape. Despite the numerous studies on the effect traditional media has on body image, very few have focused on the effect of newer forms of media (e.g. online media). And almost none have looked at the relationship between time spen...

Welch, E. 2014. Eating Disorders. Steps Towards an Increased Understanding. Digital Comprehensive Summaries of Uppsala Dissertations from the Faculty of Social Sciences 95. 74 pp. Uppsala: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis. ISBN 978-91-554-8917-5. Eating disorders and disordered eating attitudes and behaviors are characterized by an overevaluation of weight and shape, under or over-controlled eati...

Previous work has been unclear as to how restrained eating is related to implicit attitudes towards food. The present paper introduces a new variant of the affective priming paradigm to measure implicit attitudes towards food among restrained and unrestrained eaters, using food pictures as primes and emoticons as targets. Results of two studies show that while unrestrained eaters evaluate palat...

The literature has found that eating disorders (ED) patients usually have a depression and anxiety diagnosis. However, not many investigations have studied the relationship between ED and well-being. One of the main problems of patients with ED is their body image. These individuals usually see themselves too big but there are not many investigations that focus on how these patients see people ...

Background: The measure of Expressed Emotion (EE) has been extensively used for the investigation of family interaction in different clinical populations. However, very few clinical data exist which clarify the nature of the relationship between family EE and eating disorders, as well as the prognostic value of the EE variables.Objective: The purpose of this study is to determine if family EE p...