Binge Eating Disorder and body image perception among university students

Daily Ups and Downs in Women's Binge Eating Symptoms: The Role of Basic Psychological Needs, General Self-Control, and Emotional Eating

“…Prevalence rates of binge eating, which is defined as "episodes of eating which are experienced as excessive and beyond the subject's control" (Fairburn, 1984, p. 235), are high, with recent estimates of 19.6% in female adolescents (Goossens & Braet, 2010) and 12.9% in university students (Nicoli & Liberatore, 2011). These binge eating symptoms can contribute to overweight and obesity, which, in turn, are associated with a variety of physical (e.g., coronary disease, diabetes, hypertension; e.g., World Health Organization, 1996) and mental health (e.g., depressive symptoms, low self-esteem; e.g., Bray, 1986;Wadden et al, 2006) problems.…”

The Relationship Between Culture, Geographic Region, and Gender on Body Image: A Comparison of College Students in the Southeast and Pacific Northwest Regions of the United States

“…Poor body image has been repeatedly linked with a variety of negative outcomes (e.g., anxiety, depression, impaired sexual functioning, and lower self-esteem) and negative behaviors (e.g., maladaptive weight management strategies, including a higher incidence of compulsive exercise, disordered eating, and use of diet drugs) for young people (Gillen and Lefkowitz 2011;Koyuncu et al 2010;Lee and Johnson 2009;Nicoli and Liberatore 2011;Sides-Moore and Tochkov 2011;Woertman and Van den Brink 2012;Zajac and Schier 2011). Therefore, it is critical to understand how different factors, such as culture and gender, influence one's perception and understanding of their bodies.…”

“…In addition, a negative body image has been associated with a variety of negative weight management strategies, including a higher incidence of compulsive exercise, disordered eating, and use of diet drugs (Lee and Johnson 2009;Nicoli and Liberatore 2011;Zajac and Schier 2011).…”

The relationship between emotional eating and weight problem perception is not a function of body mass index or depression

“…Stein and Corte (2003) suggest that having an inflexible "fat bodyweight self schema" may confer vulnerability to disordered eating behaviors, and the literature largely supports this notion. Specifically, research suggests that WPP is associated with dieting (Strauss, 1999), binge eating (Nicoli & Junior, 2011;Saules et al, 2009), bulimia (Bardone-Cone et al, 2006, psychological distress (Atlantis & Ball, 2008) and, in adolescents, internalizing and externalizing problem behavior (ter Bogt et al, 2006). In general, the literature suggests that WPP is associated with disordered eating behavior beyond that which can be predicted by BMI and other known correlates of disordered eating (Saules et al, 2009).…”

“…In the literature, this construct has also been referred to as "perceived weight status" (Bardone-Cone, Abramson, Vohs, Heatherton, & Joiner, 2006), "body image perception" (Nicoli & Junior, 2011), "perception of overweight" (Fonseca & Gaspar de Matos, 2005), "self-perception of body weight" (Siqueira, Appolinário, & Sichieri, 2005), "self-reported weight status" (Strauss, 1999), "body weight perception" (ter Bogt et al, 2006), "fat body-weight self schema" (Stein & Corte, 2003) and perhaps other variants. This discrepant terminology across studies has led to a lack of integration of findings, which have been remarkably consistent, but perhaps relatively unknown.…”