Youth spend substantial time on social media, which can foster self-critical processes that
increase risk of body dissatisfaction, disordered eating, and depressed mood. To date, there …

The postpartum period may be a particular window of vulnerability for eating disorder
symptoms given changes to body shape and weight that women experience. However, no …

Physical appearance is an important domain wherein people tend to have perfectionistic
tendencies. Physical appearance perfectionism is a domain-specific type of perfectionism …

Research lacks in verifying the nature of the relationship between mass media pressure,
body image, and the risk of unhealthy eating behaviors. This study aimed to investigate …

Body image victimization experiences that include appearance-based teasing,“fat talk,” and
negative comments by parents and peers have been found to be associated with female …

Negative emotional eating has been increasingly a prominent disordered eating and public
health problem among young women, especially during COVID-19. Although previous …

Emotional eating, defined as eating in response to affect, may increase during early
adolescence, a time of heightened emotionality and increased prevalence of emotional …

Background The Three-Factor Eating Questionnaire (TFEQ) is a self-assessment scale used
widely in the studies of eating behavior, but its short form TFEQ-R21 has not been validated …

The postpartum period is a window of vulnerability for disordered eating. Postpartum women
experience pressures to “bounce back” to their pre-pregnancy weight which may lead to …

Adolescents who are obese are at risk for being teased about their appearance with the
concomitant negative psychological sequelae. Identifying modifiable variables associated …