کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
902447 916161 2007 8 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Is body checking in the eating disorders more closely related to diagnosis or to symptom presentation?
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم پزشکی و سلامت پزشکی و دندانپزشکی روانپزشکی و بهداشت روانی
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Is body checking in the eating disorders more closely related to diagnosis or to symptom presentation?
چکیده انگلیسی

Body checking behaviours and cognitions are seen as underlying the core pathology of eating disorders—the over-evaluation of eating, shape and weight. While it has been demonstrated that levels of behaviours and cognitions differentiate eating-disordered women from non-eating-disordered women, little is known with regard to how these findings relate to diagnostic group. This study aimed to determine whether body checking cognitions and behaviours are best understood with regard to diagnostic category or symptom presentation. Eighty-four eating-disordered women (with diagnoses of anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, binge eating disorder or other Eating Disorders Not Otherwise Specified) completed measures of body checking behaviours and cognitions and eating psychopathology. Results showed that different aspects of body checking were more closely associated with diagnosis and with symptom presentation. Anorexia nervosa and binge-eating-disorder patients had particularly low levels of body checking behaviours and some related cognitions. However, the belief that body checking allows one to be accurate in knowing one's weight was associated with bingeing and vomiting behaviours, rather than diagnosis. Future directions for research include understanding the links between body checking phenomena and neurological features. Clinical implications are discussed.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Behaviour Research and Therapy - Volume 45, Issue 11, November 2007, Pages 2704–2711
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