Background Eating disorders are severe psychiatric disorders with a complex etiology
involving transactions among sociocultural, psychological, and biological influences. Most …

The self-conscious emotions (SCE) of guilt, shame, pride, and embarrassment are moral
emotions, which motivate adherence to social norms and personal standards and emerge in …

Because no single report has examined risk factors that predict future onset each type of
eating disorder and core symptom dimensions that crosscut disorders, we addressed these …

Introduction: Adolescents' engagement with online social networking platforms is advancing
at an exponential rate and research is needed to investigate any impact on young users' …

Sociocultural theory of body dissatisfaction posits that internalization of the media ideal and
appearance comparison are predictors of body dissatisfaction, a key risk factor for eating …

Media influence may lead adolescents to internalize patterns of physical beauty, resulting in
dissatisfaction with their own bodies when they are unable to match up to these patterns. In …

This meta-analytic review of prospective and experimental studies reveals that several
accepted risk factors for eating pathology have not received empirical support (eg, sexual …

Abstract Objectification theory (Fredrickson & Roberts, 1997) provides a framework for
understanding how cultural pressure on women's appearance (ie, sexual objectification) …

Objective: Recent findings implicate body dissatisfaction in the development and
maintenance of eating pathology. This paper reviews theory and empirical findings …

Body dissatisfaction is common in adolescence and associated with negative outcomes (eg,
eating disorders). We identified common individual trajectories of body dissatisfaction from …