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Increasing body image flexibility in a residential eating disorder facility: Correlates with symptom improvement
- Source :
- Eating disorders. 26(2)
- Publication Year :
- 2017
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Abstract
- The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of changes in body image psychological flexibility over the course of treatment on various outcome variables.Participants included 103 female, residential patients diagnosed with an eating disorder. Pretreatment and posttreatment data were collected that examined body image psychological flexibility, general psychological flexibility, symptom severity, and other outcome variables.Changes in body image psychological flexibility significantly predicted changes in all outcome measures except for obsessive-compulsive symptoms after controlling for body mass index, depression, and anxiety. Additionally, these results were maintained after controlling for general psychological flexibility, contributing to the incremental validity of the BI-AAQ.This study suggests that changes in body image psychological flexibility meaningfully predict changes in various treatment outcomes of interest, including eating disorder risk, quality of life, and general mental health. Findings indicate that body image psychological flexibility might be a viable target for eating disorder treatment.
- Subjects :
- Adult
050103 clinical psychology
Anxiety
Residential Facilities
Body Mass Index
Feeding and Eating Disorders
03 medical and health sciences
Young Adult
0302 clinical medicine
Quality of life
Surveys and Questionnaires
medicine
Body Image
Humans
0501 psychology and cognitive sciences
skin and connective tissue diseases
Depression (differential diagnoses)
Depression
05 social sciences
Symptom severity
Flexibility (personality)
General Medicine
030227 psychiatry
Psychiatry and Mental health
Clinical Psychology
Treatment Outcome
Symptom improvement
Female
sense organs
medicine.symptom
Psychology
Incremental validity
Body mass index
Clinical psychology
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 1532530X
- Volume :
- 26
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Eating disorders
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....76d7a5610ff126685b581330a8660390