Cargando…

Bulimic symptoms in a sample of college women: disentangling the roles of body size, body shame and negative urgency

ABSTRACT: Purpose This study set out to disentangle the roles of body size, body shame and negative urgency on bulimic symptomatology in a sample of college women. We predicted that body shame would mediate the relationship between body size and bulimic symptomatology: with increasing body size, the...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Dalley, Simon E., Bron, Glenda G., Hagl, Iona F. A., Heseding, Frederic, Hoppe, Sabine, Wit, Lotte
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer International Publishing 2019
Materias:
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7508931/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31555972
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40519-019-00771-z
_version_ 1783585499078721536
author Dalley, Simon E.
Bron, Glenda G.
Hagl, Iona F. A.
Heseding, Frederic
Hoppe, Sabine
Wit, Lotte
author_facet Dalley, Simon E.
Bron, Glenda G.
Hagl, Iona F. A.
Heseding, Frederic
Hoppe, Sabine
Wit, Lotte
author_sort Dalley, Simon E.
collection PubMed
description ABSTRACT: Purpose This study set out to disentangle the roles of body size, body shame and negative urgency on bulimic symptomatology in a sample of college women. We predicted that body shame would mediate the relationship between body size and bulimic symptomatology: with increasing body size, the greater would be the experience of body shame and, in turn, the greater the bulimic symptomatology. We also predicted that negative urgency would exacerbate this mediation pathway, and that the moderated mediation model would occur over and above current levels of depression. METHOD: A convenience sample of 237 college women indicated their age, height and weight and then completed measures of body shame, negative urgency, depression and bulimic symptomatology. Bootstrap analysis was used to test the predicted moderation mediation model. RESULTS: The bootstrap analysis supported all predictions. Thus, with greater the increase in body size, the greater was the body shame and the more frequent bulimic symptomatology. Furthermore, negative urgency moderated the relationship between body shame and bulimic symptomatology, such that those with both higher negative urgency and body shame had more frequent bulimic symptomatology. CONCLUSIONS: Results suggest that those college women higher in both BMI and negative urgency are likely to experience higher levels of bulimic symptoms. These women may benefit from emotion regulation interventions targeted at preventing, as well as coping effectively with, the experience of body shame. LEVEL OF EVIDENCE: V: cross-sectional descriptive study.
format Online
Article
Text
id pubmed-7508931
institution National Center for Biotechnology Information
language English
publishDate 2019
publisher Springer International Publishing
record_format MEDLINE/PubMed
spelling pubmed-75089312020-10-05 Bulimic symptoms in a sample of college women: disentangling the roles of body size, body shame and negative urgency Dalley, Simon E. Bron, Glenda G. Hagl, Iona F. A. Heseding, Frederic Hoppe, Sabine Wit, Lotte Eat Weight Disord Original Article ABSTRACT: Purpose This study set out to disentangle the roles of body size, body shame and negative urgency on bulimic symptomatology in a sample of college women. We predicted that body shame would mediate the relationship between body size and bulimic symptomatology: with increasing body size, the greater would be the experience of body shame and, in turn, the greater the bulimic symptomatology. We also predicted that negative urgency would exacerbate this mediation pathway, and that the moderated mediation model would occur over and above current levels of depression. METHOD: A convenience sample of 237 college women indicated their age, height and weight and then completed measures of body shame, negative urgency, depression and bulimic symptomatology. Bootstrap analysis was used to test the predicted moderation mediation model. RESULTS: The bootstrap analysis supported all predictions. Thus, with greater the increase in body size, the greater was the body shame and the more frequent bulimic symptomatology. Furthermore, negative urgency moderated the relationship between body shame and bulimic symptomatology, such that those with both higher negative urgency and body shame had more frequent bulimic symptomatology. CONCLUSIONS: Results suggest that those college women higher in both BMI and negative urgency are likely to experience higher levels of bulimic symptoms. These women may benefit from emotion regulation interventions targeted at preventing, as well as coping effectively with, the experience of body shame. LEVEL OF EVIDENCE: V: cross-sectional descriptive study. Springer International Publishing 2019-09-25 2020 /pmc/articles/PMC7508931/ /pubmed/31555972 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40519-019-00771-z Text en © The Author(s) 2019 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.
spellingShingle Original Article
Dalley, Simon E.
Bron, Glenda G.
Hagl, Iona F. A.
Heseding, Frederic
Hoppe, Sabine
Wit, Lotte
Bulimic symptoms in a sample of college women: disentangling the roles of body size, body shame and negative urgency
title Bulimic symptoms in a sample of college women: disentangling the roles of body size, body shame and negative urgency
title_full Bulimic symptoms in a sample of college women: disentangling the roles of body size, body shame and negative urgency
title_fullStr Bulimic symptoms in a sample of college women: disentangling the roles of body size, body shame and negative urgency
title_full_unstemmed Bulimic symptoms in a sample of college women: disentangling the roles of body size, body shame and negative urgency
title_short Bulimic symptoms in a sample of college women: disentangling the roles of body size, body shame and negative urgency
title_sort bulimic symptoms in a sample of college women: disentangling the roles of body size, body shame and negative urgency
topic Original Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7508931/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31555972
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40519-019-00771-z
work_keys_str_mv AT dalleysimone bulimicsymptomsinasampleofcollegewomendisentanglingtherolesofbodysizebodyshameandnegativeurgency
AT bronglendag bulimicsymptomsinasampleofcollegewomendisentanglingtherolesofbodysizebodyshameandnegativeurgency
AT haglionafa bulimicsymptomsinasampleofcollegewomendisentanglingtherolesofbodysizebodyshameandnegativeurgency
AT hesedingfrederic bulimicsymptomsinasampleofcollegewomendisentanglingtherolesofbodysizebodyshameandnegativeurgency
AT hoppesabine bulimicsymptomsinasampleofcollegewomendisentanglingtherolesofbodysizebodyshameandnegativeurgency
AT witlotte bulimicsymptomsinasampleofcollegewomendisentanglingtherolesofbodysizebodyshameandnegativeurgency