Causes of eating disorders.

By J. Polivy, C. Herman. Annual Review of Psychology, 2002

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Mindless Eating (2007, background): “It is not surprising to note that a major determinant of how much one eats is often whether he or she deliberately monitors or even pays attention to how much he or she eats (Polivy & Herman, 2002; Polivy, Herman, Hackett, & Kuleshnyk, 1986).”
Body Dissatisfaction and Disordered Eating among College Women in China, South Korea, and the United States: Contrasting Predictions from Sociocultural and Feminist Theories (2007, background): “…feelings, and attitudes related to one’s own body (Thompson et al., 1999), has been widely studied because a poor body image has been associated with impaired selfesteem, reduced social effectiveness, and potentially lifethreatening eating disorders (e.g., Grogan, 1999; Polivy & Herman, 2002).”
Environmental factors that increase the food intake and consumption volume of unknowing consumers. (2004, background): “Although impressive resources have been invested in understanding food choice (85, 135), it is now becoming increasingly important to better understand what drives food consumption volume (86).”
Sexual Self-Esteem in American and British College Women: Relations with Self-Objectification and Eating Problems (2009, background): “This idea that feelings of low sexual self-esteem and high sexual dissatisfaction may evoke control behaviors in the form of eating disorder symptoms to alleviate the negative feelings is not new (e.g., Polivy and Herman 2002; Troop 1998); however, to date, the role of sexual self-esteem in the co”
Specificity of cognitive emotion regulation strategies: a transdiagnostic examination. (2010, background): “That is, eating disorders might be related to regulatory strategies because of their associations with distress (e.g., Macht, Haput, & Ellgring, 2005; Polivy & Herman, 2002).”
Eating and Body Image Disturbances Across Cultures: A Review. (2006, background): “The treasured ideal of slimness has percolated through all levels of society via the media (Polivy & Herman, 2002), lending further credence to the hypothesis that eating pathology is no longer restricted to the higher SES (Fear, Bulik, & Sullivan, 1996 ).”
The UCLA Body Project I: Gender and Ethnic Differences in Self-Objectification and Body Satisfaction Among 2,206 Undergraduates (2007, background): “This link is so strong that low body satisfaction has been described as an “essential precursor” to eating disorders ( Polivy and Herman 2002, p. 192 ).”
Does Body Image Play a Role in Risky Sexual Behavior and Attitudes? (2006, background): “Women with anorexia and bulimia, disorders that are associated with poor body image ( Polivy and Herman, 2002 ), tend to report less interest in sex than those without these disorders (Morgan et al., 1995).”
An examination of general and specific motivational mechanisms for the relations between body dissatisfaction and eating behaviors (2007, neutral): “Results from longitudinal studies have identified body dissatisfaction to be an independent and the single most important cause of dieting and disordered eating (Polivy & Herman, 2002; Shisslak & Crago, 2001; Stice, 2002).”
Self-Affirmation: Understanding the Effects (2013, background): “One study (Logel & Cohen, 2012) examined college-age women, the majority of whom were obese or overweight and reported dissatisfaction with their weight and thus may have been in a chronic state of depleted resources in weight-relevant situations (Polivy & Herman, 2002; Ward & Mann, 2000).”