“…Research findings from CIT methods may then guide future research studies that integrate traditional hypothesis testing methods to explore the associations between variables in a more intentional way to guide future preventive efforts. The results from this study highlight several variables that are already documented in the literature as pertinent risk factors for DEB, including appearance‐based teasing (Dahill et al, 2021), weight teasing (Eisenberg et al, 2012; Hunger et al, 2020; Puhl et al, 2014), everyday discrimination (Beccia et al, 2020; Yoon et al, 2022), gender (Keel et al, 2007; Maine & Bunnell, 2015; Pritchard et al, 2006), and financial difficulty (Richardson et al, 2015; Simone et al, 2021), as well as two variables collected during adolescence that have been explored less in the literature: receipt of public assistance and neighborhood safety (Mikhail et al, 2021) that are worth investigating further in future research studies.…”