Body image and eating behaviors -
Thus, stress, anxiety, and time spent on social networks may have diminished coping skills to manage threats against messages conveyed by social media on body image and, consequently, might increase body dissatisfaction, which is known to lead individuals to eat as a way to calm or to reward themselves Geller et al.
Body dissatisfaction as well as weight and shape concerns were not significantly related to self-rated changes in the frequency of overeating among women of our sample. These results go against what was expected.
Indeed, the relationship between overeating and negative body image has been shown to be significant in the literature e. Our results suggest that the relationship between negative body image and overeating episodes should be further explored. We could hypothesize that in our sample, overeating episodes would not be predicted by negative body image, but by emotional distress caused by the COVID pandemic, as suggested by the dual-pathway model proposed by Stice , to explain bulimic behavior.
Specifically, Stice proposed that body dissatisfaction and bulimic behavior could be linked though the pathway of negative emotions. Overeating could represent an escape from experiencing negative emotions Heatherton and Baumeister, ; Van Strien et al. Van Strien et al. The relationship between negative affect and overeating could be explained by emotional eating and a lack of interoceptive awareness.
The lack of interoceptive awareness was strongly associated with negative affect but did not totally explain the relation between negative affect and emotional eating. Future studies should include instruments to measure negative affect e.
The findings of this study should be interpreted in light of some limitations. First, this study included self-reported measures in which participants were asked to indicate perceived changes in frequency of eating habits.
It is possible that women may not be reporting their eating behaviors accurately. Furthermore, our findings cannot be generalized to men and individuals with a current or history of eating disorders as they were excluded from this study.
Third, body dissatisfaction was only measured only with visual depictive body size estimation tasks using the e LoriCorps-IBRS v 1. It could be interesting to measure body dissatisfaction with another type of instrument, such as a questionnaire. Indeed, it has been suggested that different instruments could assess different dimensions of body image-related construct Moelbert et al.
Finally, this is a cross-sectional study that does not allow us to interpret associations between variables as reflecting causal relations. The results of this study can have important preventive and therapeutic implications.
As we are entering the third year of the pandemic, it is critical to understand how people have been affected so far, and how to prepare to mitigate the impact of a prolonged pandemic crisis. A possible strategy could be the implementation of cognitive and behavioral body image interventions combined with intuitive eating education programs.
Cognitive and behavioral body image interventions could help ameliorate negative body image by implementing and adopting daily life techniques that can alter the dysfunctional affective and cognitive dimensions of body image and promoting a more positive body image e.
Cognitive-behavioral models consider negative body image e. However, before directly targeting negative body image during, for instance, cognitive-behavior interventions , it is suggested to indirectly reduce its influence by targeting other disordered eating symptoms, such as restrictive eating, overeating episodes, and emotional eating Fairburn, ; Linardon and Mitchell, Increasing scientific evidence is pointing to the potential positive role of intuitive eating as a protective factor against several eating disorder symptoms such as disordered eating, binge eating, restrictive eating, and unhealthy weight control behaviors Dockendorff et al.
Intuitive eating appears to be associated also to lower body image concerns, higher positive body image, body appreciation, self-esteem, self-compassion, self-determination, body empowerment, and wellbeing Dockendorff et al. The effect of the pandemic on body image and eating behaviors remains largely understudied.
This paper highlights the existence of a positive relation between negative body image and increased frequency of disordered eating behaviors in a community sample of women during the COVID crisis. These results should be taken into consideration, as they shed light on a dangerous pattern of phenomena in a non-clinical sample of women.
They seem of critical importance as they represent the key risk factors for the development of eating disorders. Our hope is that future studies would follow and that we would be able to reach a better understanding about how people were affected by this global crisis to promptly react with the development and implementation of prevention programs.
The data for this study is available upon request addressed directly to the Research Ethics Boards comite. ethique uqo. The dataset is not publicly available due to privacy and ethical restrictions.
The studies involving human participants were reviewed and approved by ethical committee of Université du Québec en Outaouais Quebec, Canada and of Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières Quebec, Canada. GC, AP, JM-B, and SB created and conceptualized the study.
GC, AP, and MO collected the data. GC, AP, and SB analyzed and interpreted the data. GC and AP wrote the first draft. GC, AP, JM-B, MO, and SB critically revised the manuscript and provided constructive comments. All authors contributed to the article and approved the submitted version.
This work was supported by a postdoctoral grant awarded to the first author GC by the Fond de Recherche du Québec— Santé FRQS; ; the Canada research Chair in clinical cyberpsychology awarded to SB; and the RBC Royal Bank, the Lemaire family, Fond.
The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest. All claims expressed in this article are solely those of the authors and do not necessarily represent those of their affiliated organizations, or those of the publisher, the editors and the reviewers.
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A negative body image can cause unrealistic expectations of how your body should look and can lead to unhealthy eating behaviors and disordered eating. Studies have found a correlation between the time spent on social media and a negative body image.
The correlation is especially true when participants were scrolling through appearance-related content, like accounts of a fitness instructor or model on Instagram. Social media images are filled with people presenting the best version of themselves.
Social media can then hurt your body image by constantly exposing yourself to the ideal body type, leading to constant comparison of yourself to unrealistic standards. Additionally, photoshop and filters are readily available to users playing into the unrealistic body image.
However, social media can also have positive effects on body image and can promote body positivity.
Viewing body-positive content on social media platforms can help individuals become more accepting and appreciative of their bodies. Additionally, social media can connect you with others to build a body-accepting community.
It is important to examine ways to use social media in a positive way to avoid a negative body image. It is important to take a break from social media if you feel worse after using it. Additionally, examine who you are following on social media and unfollow accounts if they do not make you feel good.
The difficulties for assessing food intake among young people are well known but it should not serve as a deterrent to pursue this line of research. Moreover, BF was calculated using Slaughter et al.
equations [ 19 ], which have been previously reported [ 20 ]. This study did not take into account pubertal development; however, a previous study [ 51 ] classified adolescents according to their pubertal stage and divided boys in two groups: pubertal 12—14 y.
and post-pubertal 15—17 y. Moreover, it should be noted that we cannot ignore that adolescents that wish to be thinner could overestimate healthy foods consumption and underestimate unhealthy foods consumption; it has been well documented that people with high relative weight usually underreported their food intake [ 11 ].
Finally, we cannot infer causality because of the cross-sectional design of the study. This study also has several strengths. New data is provided about the association between body image and food consumption patterns among adolescents according to their body composition.
Specifically, it provides data evaluating the association between food consumption and dissatisfaction with overfat status among adolescents, which is scarce in this age group. Moreover, most of the previous studies in adolescents analyzed differences in perception of body image and weight concerns according to gender [ 49 ], ethnic and social differences [ 41 ], and overweight and obesity status, showing that BMI is positively related to body dissatisfaction [ 43 — 45 ].
However, in the present study, the association between body image and food consumption patterns according to body composition has been demonstrated.
Thirdly, the use of BMI for age to define being overweight and obesity in children and adolescents is well established for both clinical and public health applications [ 54 , 55 ].
However, it has been recognized that elevation of BMI does not always equate to increased adiposity because it does not distinguish between BF mass and lean body mass [ 56 ], whereas the FMI has a high accuracy level for overweight screening [ 23 ]. Accordingly, after several statistically known potential confounding factors were controlled in this study, the adolescent population was classified according to both BMI and FMI, as it has been published elsewhere [ 57 ].
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