Download or read book Examining the Effect of a Body Image Cognitive Dissonance Prevention Program on Disordered Eating Risky Alcohol Use and Sexual Risk Taking written by Meghan Kelsey Brown and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eating disorders and body image issues are significant problems which affect many domains of the lives of both men and women. These constructs have, in turn, been associated with health risk taking behaviors such as sexual risk taking and risky alcohol use. Ninety-six participants completed self-report data before and after a body image cognitive dissonance (CD) program or an active health education control to determine if participation in the program lead to less health risk taking behaviors such as disordered eating, risky alcohol use and, and sexual risk taking. T-tests and ANOVA revealed that participants who went through Reflections training exhibited lower global Eating Disorder Examination Questionnaire (EDE-Q) and Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT) scores, however did not differ on Sexual Risk Taking Scale (SRTS) scores. Future studies may require larger samples to address floor effects and may want to consider ways to improve random assignment in order to adequately assess whether cognitive dissonance training can be expanded to be used to lower risky health behaviors.
Download or read book Effects of a Cognitive Dissonance based Eating Disorder Prevention Program Among College Students written by Alison Marie Tedrow and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstract: The purpose of this study was to investigate if an eating disorder prevention program can change eating disorder symptoms and appearance internalization in college students. Specifically, this study examined the effectiveness of The Body Project 4 All in changing eating disorder symptoms and appearance internalization scores before and after an educational intervention in male and female undergraduate students. Students were recruited by convenience sampling from a California State University Long Beach general education class, Nutrition 132. A pre- and post-test combining two different questionnaires was used before and after implementation of The Body Project 4 All intervention program. Paired samples and independent samples t -tests data analysis demonstrated that the program can significantly decrease eating disorder symptoms and appearance internalization, with no significant differences between men and women. These results demonstrated that a cognitive dissonance-based approach can be effective in prevention efforts for both genders.
Download or read book The Body Project written by Eric Stice and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 2013-01-17 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Body Project is an empirically based eating disorder prevention program that offers young women an opportunity to critically consider the costs of pursuing the ultra-thin ideal promoted in the mass media, which improves body acceptance and reduces risk for developing eating disorders.
Download or read book Dissonance based Body Image Intervention and Eating Disorder Prevention Program written by Megan Roehrig and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Are Mixed sex and Single sex Groups Equally Effective Across Males and Females written by Christina L. Verzijl and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Body Project is a cognitive dissonance-based eating disorder (ED) preventive intervention program with ample empirical support among adolescent and undergraduate female samples. Recently, community stakeholders and data suggest that preventive efforts must also target body satisfaction and increasing ED symptomatology seen in males. The current study examined the efficacy of a male-only (MO), a mixed-sex (MS), and a traditional female-only (FO) Body Project program compared to a minimal attention control (AC) in a community sample. Participants included adolescents male and female students (N = 182) aged 13-19 years across three high school sites. Participants completed self-report measures assessing body satisfaction, thin-ideal internalization, ED symptom count, psychosocial impairment secondary to weight and shape concerns, and acceptability of the Body Project 4 High Schools program at baseline and post-intervention. Hierarchical linear regressions and generalized linear models were used to estimate main effects of condition and examine whether sex moderated condition effects on outcome variables. In single-sex groups, girls showed greater improvement in body satisfaction compared to AC, while boys did not show significant differences from AC. For boys and girls, MS was associated with improved body satisfaction compared to AC, while its impact on other risk factors was largely non-significant. Effect sizes are presented as a measure of clinical significance. These results contribute to existing Body Project data and provide preliminary empirical support of the applicability of the well-established dissonance-based preventive intervention to adolescent boys.
Download or read book The Prevention of Eating Problems and Eating Disorders written by Michael P. Levine and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2006-04-21 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first authored volume to offer a detailed, integrated analysis of the field of eating problems and disorders with theory, research, and practical experience from community and developmental psychology, public health, psychiatry, and dietetics. The book highlights connections between the prevention of eating problems and disorders and theory and research in the areas of prevention and health promotion; theoretical models of risk development and prevention (e.g., developmental psychopathology, social cognitive theory, feminist theory, ecological approaches); and related research on the prevention of smoking and alcohol use. It is the most comprehensive book available on the study of prevention programs, especially for children and adolescents. The authors review the spectrum of eating problems and disorders, the related risk and protective factors, the models that have guided prevention efforts to date, the literature on the studies of prevention, and suggestions for curriculum and program development and evaluation. The book concludes with a new prevention program based on the Feminist Ecological Developmental model. The 800 + references highlight work done around the world. The Prevention of Eating Problems and Eating Disorders addresses: * methodologies for assessing and establishing prevention; * the implications of neuroscience for prevention; * dramatic increases in the incidence of obesity; * the role of boys, men, and the media on body image; * prevention programming for minority groups; and * whether to focus on primary or secondary prevention. Intended for clinicians and academicians from disciplines such as health, clinical, developmental, and community psychology; social work; medicine; and public health; this book is also an ideal text for advanced courses on eating disorders.
Download or read book The Effects of a Disordered Eating Intervention Program on Body Image and Disordered Eating Attitudes in Female Participants at Kent State University written by Sarah Anne Burns and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this study is to determine the effectiveness of a five week long preventative disordered eating (DE) support program on Kent State University's Campus for women concerned with body image and DE. The participants (n=5) were full or part-time female students on Kent State University's main campus that wanted to learn more about healthy eating or that felt they have a problem with DE. Criteria that excluded a participant was a previous clinical diagnosis of an eating disorder or a score on the Eating Attitudes Test (EAT 26) score above 26, being under the age of 18, or being male or faculty. Instruments used to measure changes in body image and disordered eating perceptions were the Eating Attitudes Test, ORTO15, a self-efficacy and body esteem survey. A dependent t-test was used to determine differences between pre- and post-test scores for each instrument used. There were no significant differences found in the ORTO 15, self-efficacy, or body esteem surveys (p 0.05). A significant difference was found between scores for the EAT 26, which shows a decrease in DE behaviors with small group intervention (p 0.001). Intervention groups such as these may be able to prevent the onset of eating disorders by decreasing the behaviors, feelings, and outlooks of participants with body image disorders or disordered eating behaviors.
Download or read book Overcoming Body Image Disturbance written by Lorraine Bell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-02-19 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: People with eating disorders often exhibit serious misconceptions about their own body image. Overcoming Body Image Disturbance provides a treatment programme (piloted by the authors) for people with eating disorders who have a negative body image. The manual offers advice for therapists, enabling them to deliver the programme, as well as practical guidance for the sufferer, encouraging them to learn the appropriate skills to change their attitude towards their body. Alongside the programme, this treatment manual provides: an introduction to the concept of body image and body image disturbance worksheets and homework assignments for the client recommendations of psychometric measures to aid assessment and evaluation coverage on innovative techniques and approaches such as mindfulness. This manual – intended to be used with close guidance from a therapist – will be essential for all therapists, mental health workers and counsellors working with clients who have negative body images. "Workbook resources can be downloaded free of charge by purchasers of the print version."
Download or read book Heterogeneity of Body Image Concerns and Associations With Disordered Eating Muscle building and Body Dysmorphic Disorder Symptoms in Sexual Minority Individuals written by Patrycja Klimek and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Objective: Body image concerns are associated with health outcomes such as eating disorders and body dysmorphic disorder. Sexual minority populations have demonstrated a disproportionate risk for body image concerns. Additionally, both thinness and muscularity-oriented body image concerns are salient in men and women and are independently associated with body image disorders. Therefore, varying body image concern patterns may demonstrate independent pathways towards the development of body image disorders. A better understanding of heterogeneity in body image concerns and their association with body image disorders and associated health risk behaviors in sexual minority men and women is, therefore, needed. Methods: Study 1 and Study 2 examined the factor structure and measurement invariance, by gender, of self-report measures of disordered eating (Eating Disorder Examination-Questionnaire; EDE-Q) and drive for muscularity (Drive for Muscularity Scale; DMS), respectively. Study 3 explored the heterogeneity in body image concerns and associations with body image disorder symptoms, using latent profile analysis. All studies utilized the same samples of young adult sexual minority men (n = 479) and women (n = 483). Results: Studies 1 and 2 indicated factorial validity and measurement invariance by gender of the DMS and EDE-Q models. Study 3 revealed a 5-profile solution in men and a 4-profile solution in women, characterized by varying levels of both thinness and muscularity concerns. In both men and women, disordered eating and dysmorphic concern were highest when thinness concerns were high, regardless of muscularity concern. Moreover, in both men and women, high muscularity concern profiles demonstrated the highest levels of muscle-building behavior, and profiles with both high or moderate thinness and muscularity concerns demonstrated the highest probabilities of past year illicit appearance and performance enhancing drug misuse. Conclusion: Studies 1, 2, and 3 used psychometric and mixture modeling techniques to better characterize both body image concerns and body image disorders. Results from Study 3 further demonstrated that particular body image concern profiles, varying in levels of both thinness and muscularity concerns, may be at higher risk for greater disordered eating, muscle-building, and body dysmorphic concerns. Study findings have implications for prevention and treatment for body image disorders.
Download or read book Exploration of a Dissonance based Body Dissatisfaction Intervention written by Sarah M. Godoy and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Results showed preliminary support for a model incorporating discussion of values and identity as part of a dissonance-based approach. Significant short-term findings were found, including decreased thin ideal internalization, decreased body dissatisfaction, and improved self-esteem.
Download or read book Comparing the Efficacy of Two Cognitive Dissonance Interventions for Eating Pathology are Online and Face to face Interventions Equally Effective written by Kasey Lyn Serdar and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clinical and subclinical eating pathology are common, especially among female undergraduates. Such problems are often chronic and associated with a range of negative medical and psychological outcomes. Thus, it is important to develop effective prevention programs to reduce eating disorder risk. Numerous studies suggest that dissonance-based prevention programs are the most successful in reducing eating disorder risk factors, however, such programs might not be convenient for students limited by scheduling restraints or geographic proximity. Further, some students may be reluctant to attend such groups due to lack of anonymity. One way to address these potential barriers is to adapt dissonance-based programs for online use. However, no extant studies have examined the feasibility of this mode of delivery for dissonance-based programs. The current study examined the effectiveness of an online dissonance-based program, and compared it with traditional face-to-face delivery and assessment-only control conditions. It was hypothesized that: 1) online and face-to-face dissonance programs would produce comparable results; and 2) both of these active treatments would yield improvements in eating disorder outcomes (e.g. reduced thin ideal internalization, body dissatisfaction, dieting, negative affect, and eating disorder symptoms) compared with an assessment-only control condition. Results partially supported the original hypotheses. Modified intent-to-treat analyses (MITT) indicated that participants in both the face-to-face and online intervention groups showed less body dissatisfaction at post-intervention assessment compared to assessment only participants. Further, when analyses were conducted using a non-intent-to-treat (non-ITT) approach (examining only the outcomes of participants who completed the intervention), significant post-intervention differences were observed for all outcome variables. Specifically, individuals in both intervention groups showed lower thin-ideal internalization, body dissatisfaction, restraint, negative affect, and fewer eating disorder symptoms compared to assessment only participants. This study indicates that there may be some promise in adapting dissonance-based eating disorder prevention programs for online use. Future studies should continue to refine online adaptations of such programs and examine the effects of such programs with different populations.
Download or read book Integrating Thin ideal Internalization and Self objectification Within Eating Disorder Prevention for Women written by Ashley Michelle Kroon Van Diest and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A cross-sectional and longitudinal examination of thin-ideal internalization and self-objectification was conducted within the context of an eating disorder prevention program. The sample consisted of 177 undergraduate women enrolled in a sorority between the ages of 18 and 22 who participated in a dissonance-based eating disorder prevention program. Participants completed self-report assessments at baseline, post-intervention, 5-month, and 1-year follow-up. Measures included the Ideal-Body Stereotype Scale-Revised, Self-Objectification Questionnaire, Body Shape Questionnaire, and Eating Disorder Examination-Questionnaire. A cross-sectional path analysis indicated that thin-ideal internalization and self-objectification predict each other and both predict body dissatisfaction, which in turn, predicts eating disorder symptoms. A longitudinal examination of the prevention program indicated that participants showed significant reductions in thin-ideal internalization, self-objectification, body dissatisfaction, and eating disorder symptoms after participating in a cognitive dissonance eating disorder prevention program. Significant reductions of all symptoms were maintained at 1-year follow-up, with the exception of self-objectification, which had a significant reduction up to the 5-month assessment. A longitudinal path analysis indicated that post-intervention thin-ideal internalization and self-objectification predicted body dissatisfaction at 5-month follow-up assessments which in turn predicted eating disorder symptoms at this same time point. This model was replicated for 1-year follow-up body dissatisfaction and eating disorder symptoms with the exception of the direct path from self-objectification to body dissatisfaction. Assessment of temporal sequence of change between self-objectification and thin-ideal internalization revealed that neither variable significantly predicted meaningful change in the other variable. Finally, individuals who showed meaningful change in self-objectification before showing meaningful reduction in thin-ideal internalization from baseline to post-intervention assessments had greater reductions in eating disorder symptoms 1-year following the intervention. Collectively, these results suggest that eating disorder prevention programs should focus on targeting both thin-ideal internalization and self-objectification simultaneously to increase further the reduction of eating disorder symptoms.
Download or read book Positive and Negative Effects of Eating Disorder Prevention Programs written by Traci Mann and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Reducing Eating Disorder Risk Factors in College Populations written by Stephanie Rose Peters and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Overall, this study demonstrated that creating dissonance-based media interventions that target negative body image culture improvement on campus is feasible. Future resources should be spent to further examine body image culture longitudinally to best inform future intervention efforts.
Download or read book An Interactive Psychoeducational Intervention for Women At risk of Developing an Eating Disorder written by Marion F. Zabinski and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Body image concerns are extremely widespread in our society and have been linked to psychological problems as well as the development of eating disorders. One difficulty in treating these concerns is that people often delay treatment due to shame or embarrassment. Therefore, a potentially effective means of treatment delivery is through anonymous, computerized interventions offered via the Internet. While few studies have been conducted overall, initial research with computerized psychoeducation and asynchronous programs has been promising. However, no studies have systematically evaluated the efficacy of synchronous communication, and none have been tested within the eating disorder domain. This study evaluated the effectiveness of a synchronous intervention for college-aged women at risk for developing an eating disorder, as defined by high body image concerns. Sixty women (mean age = 18.9 [SD = 2.4], 65% Caucasian, mean BMI = 25.6 [SD = 5.7]) with high body image concerns were randomly assigned to intervention (n = 30) or wait-list control (n = 30) groups. Each week during the 8-week program, participants logged onto a private chatroom and participated in a 1-hour, moderated discussion regarding body image and eating behaviors. The intervention was adapted from cognitive-behavioral techniques and self-directed behavior change theories to improve body satisfaction and problematic eating patterns before full syndrome disorders develop. Treatment components included psychoeducational readings, synchronous support (chat sessions), asynchronous support (message board), homework assignments, and discussion summaries. Assessments were conducted at baseline, post-treatment, and 10-weeks after post-treatment. Participants' indicated high satisfaction with the mode of intervention delivery. A significant interaction was found for eating disorder pathology as measured by the Eating Disorders Examination-Questionnaire Global score (F[2,116] = 4.04, p
Download or read book Testing Mediators of a Couple based Eating Disorder Prevention Program written by Ana Lorena Ramirez and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Body image dissatisfaction and eating disorders are more prevalent in today's society than ever, making the prevention of eating disorders and its symptoms crucial for women's health. A couple-based eating disorder prevention program was developed based on the dual pathway model of eating disorders and some efficacy has been established. The current study explored the program's mechanisms of change by testing mediators (thin ideal internalization and body dissatisfaction) expected to mediate the effects of the program on three outcome variables (dieting, negative affect, and bulimic symptoms). Although none of the mediated paths were significant, results of the study were overall consistent with previous research and provided further support for the efficacy of the prevention program. In addition to these variables, effects of the prevention on relationship variables (relationship satisfaction, attachment anxiety and avoidance, and commitment) were explored. Finally, relationship intimacy, measured by an event-contingent interaction, was found to have an effect on an important eating disorder risk factor. Implications of the present study and future directions for the prevention and treatment of eating disorders are discussed.
Download or read book Perceptions of Eating Disorders and Body Image Satisfaction written by Emma Elizabeth Harrigan and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
