Role of body dissatisfaction in the onset and maintenance of eating pathology: a synthesis of research findings.

By Eric Stice, Heather Shaw. Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 2002

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Pharmacy

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The Prospective Effect of Life Satisfaction on Life Events (2013, background): “…are more likely to search for new jobs; Griffeth, Hom, & Gaertner, 2000), health psychology (people who are dissatisfied with their bodies are more likely to start dieting; Stice & Shaw, 2002), and consumer psychology (dissatisfied customers are less likely to repurchase; Szymanski & Henard, 2001).”
Body Size Stereotyping and Internalization of the Thin Ideal in Preschool Girls (2010, background): “…and longitudinal evidence demonstrating that personal internalization of these beauty ideals, especially of the thin ideal, is a risk factor for body image disturbance and eating pathology in girls and women (Greenfield et al. 1987; Stice 2002; Stice and Shaw 2002; Thompson and Stice 2001).”
Ethnicity and body dissatisfaction among women in the United States: a meta-analysis. (2006, background): “Specifically, sociocultural theories assign body dissatisfaction a causal role in the development of disordered eating (Stice & Shaw, 2002).”
What is an emotional disorder? A transdiagnostic mechanistic definition with implications for assessment, treatment, and prevention (2019, background): “…accumulation of evidence suggests that although thin idealization and body dissatisfaction have been clearly identified as precipitating factors (e.g., Stice & Shaw, 2002; Thompson & Stice, 2001), it is not simply these common appraisals of body shape that potentiate and maintain eating disorders.”
Weight status and body image perceptions in adolescents: current perspectives (2015, neutral): “Negative body image among adolescents, which includes dissatisfaction with one’s body shape, size, or specific body part and body distortion (ie, feelings that one is larger than actual size), can directly impact eating behaviors in an attempt to sculpt one’s body into a perceived ideal and gain a s”
In the eye of the beholder: Thin-ideal media affects some, but not most, viewers in a meta-analytic review of body dissatisfaction in women and men. (2013, background): “Body dissatisfaction is considered one risk factor for the development of serious eating disorders (Stice & Shaw, 2002).”
Who is The Fairest One of All? How Evolution Guides Peer and Media Influences on Female Body Dissatisfaction (2011, background): “Some researchers contend that this dissatisfaction may be an important factor in the onset of eating disorders and therefore that body dissatisfaction is a dangerous and potentially debilitating psychological phenomenon (Stice & Shaw, 2002).”
Sociocultural Predictors of Physical Appearance Concerns among Adolescent Girls and Young Women from China (2008, background): “Perceived appearance pressure and social comparisons have been established as influences on weight dissatisfaction in American samples (e.g., Jones 2001, 2004; Stice and Shaw 2002).”
Why Homosexuality is a Risk Factor for Eating Disorders in Males (2005, background): “Body dissatisfaction is defined as the negative subjective evaluation of one’s physical body such as figure and weight, and has been found to be a prominent risk factor in the development and maintenance of eating disorders (Stice & Shaw, 2002).”