Risk and Protective Factors Associated with Disordered Eating During Early Adolescence

By G. McVey, Debra Pepler, Ron Davis, Gordon L. Flett, M. Abdolell. 2002

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A Program to Promote Positive Body Image: (2002, background): “Other studies have reported a link between low appearance esteem and disordered eating among 15- through 18-year-old girls and among 12- and 13-year-old girls (Flett, Hewitt, Boucher, Davidson, & Munro, 1992; McVey et al., 2002 [this issue]).”
An examination of general and specific motivational mechanisms for the relations between body dissatisfaction and eating behaviors (2007, background): “attractiveness is thought to play a prominent role in promoting and maintaining a number of body image-related problems (e.g., McVey, Pepler, Davis, Flett, & Abdolell, 2002; Thompson, Heinberg, Altabe, & Tantleff–Dunn, 1999; Wertheim, Paxton, & Blaney, 2004).”
Body Dissatisfaction of Adolescent Girls and Boys: (2003, result): “That finding is consistent with the literature that indicates caring relationships with parents are important determinants of girls’ body image (McVey et al., 2002; Swarr & Richards, 1996).”