Early memories of warmth and safeness and eating psychopathology: The mediating role of social safeness and body appreciation
Research on human development and functioning has highlighted the importance of early emotional and relational experiences. Particularly, an association between the absence of early positive memories and the presence of disordered eating has been evidenced by recent investigations. However, the stud...
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| author | Sara Oliveira Cláudia Ferreira Ana Laura Mendes |
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| description | Research on human development and functioning has highlighted the importance of early
emotional and relational experiences. Particularly, an association between the absence
of early positive memories and the presence of disordered eating has been evidenced by
recent investigations. However, the study of the mechanisms underlying this association
remains unclear.
Using a sample of 490 women, the hypothesis that early positive memories are negatively
associated with disordered eating via social safeness and a positive relationship with
one’s body image was tested via path analysis. The tested model explained 51% of eating
psychopathology’s variance, and revealed a good adjustment to the empirical data. Additionally, social safeness and body appreciation were revealed as mediators of the impact of early warm and safe memories on disordered eating, when controlling for the effect of BMI.
These findings suggest the importance of targeting social safeness and acceptance, especially
when defining potentially effective programmes for the prevention of eating disorders. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-a821c28dc41d45918923d7bc4219cea72022-12-21T18:49:24ZengCoimbra University PressPsychologica0871-46571647-86062017-04-0159210.14195/1647-8606_59-2_3Early memories of warmth and safeness and eating psychopathology: The mediating role of social safeness and body appreciationSara Oliveira0Cláudia Ferreira1Ana Laura Mendes2University of Coimbra, Portugal.University of Coimbra, Portugal.University of Coimbra, Portugal.Research on human development and functioning has highlighted the importance of early emotional and relational experiences. Particularly, an association between the absence of early positive memories and the presence of disordered eating has been evidenced by recent investigations. However, the study of the mechanisms underlying this association remains unclear. Using a sample of 490 women, the hypothesis that early positive memories are negatively associated with disordered eating via social safeness and a positive relationship with one’s body image was tested via path analysis. The tested model explained 51% of eating psychopathology’s variance, and revealed a good adjustment to the empirical data. Additionally, social safeness and body appreciation were revealed as mediators of the impact of early warm and safe memories on disordered eating, when controlling for the effect of BMI. These findings suggest the importance of targeting social safeness and acceptance, especially when defining potentially effective programmes for the prevention of eating disorders.https://impactum-journals.uc.pt/psychologica/article/view/4122early memoriessocial safenessbody appreciationdisordered eating |
| spellingShingle | Sara Oliveira Cláudia Ferreira Ana Laura Mendes Early memories of warmth and safeness and eating psychopathology: The mediating role of social safeness and body appreciation Psychologica early memories social safeness body appreciation disordered eating |
| title | Early memories of warmth and safeness and eating psychopathology: The mediating role of social safeness and body appreciation |
| title_full | Early memories of warmth and safeness and eating psychopathology: The mediating role of social safeness and body appreciation |
| title_fullStr | Early memories of warmth and safeness and eating psychopathology: The mediating role of social safeness and body appreciation |
| title_full_unstemmed | Early memories of warmth and safeness and eating psychopathology: The mediating role of social safeness and body appreciation |
| title_short | Early memories of warmth and safeness and eating psychopathology: The mediating role of social safeness and body appreciation |
| title_sort | early memories of warmth and safeness and eating psychopathology the mediating role of social safeness and body appreciation |
| topic | early memories social safeness body appreciation disordered eating |
| url | https://impactum-journals.uc.pt/psychologica/article/view/4122 |
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