How can the recall of early affiliative memories with peers influence on disordered eating behaviours?

Mendes, Ana Laura; Marta‐Simões, Joana; Ferreira, Cláudia

doi:10.1007/s40519-016-0267-7

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“…In accordance with the proposed hypotheses and with prior research, the results of correlation analyses showed that early memories of warmth and safeness (both with family figures and with peers) were significantly associated with adaptive emotions and processes, and with lower eating psychopathology's severity (e.g., Ferreira et al, 2016;Mendes et al, 2016;Richter et al, 2009). Particularly, the current study extends current knowledge by demonstrating that the recall of positive emotional experiences is significantly associated with individuals' sense of safeness and connectedness to others, and with a positive attitude towards one's body, regardless of its characteristics.…”

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Early memories of warmth and safeness and eating psychopathology: The mediating role of social safeness and body appreciation

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2017

Psychologica

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Research on human development and functioning has highlighted the importance of earlyemotional and relational experiences. Particularly, an association between the absenceof early positive memories and the presence of disordered eating has been evidenced byrecent investigations. However, the study of the mechanisms underlying this associationremains unclear.Using a sample of 490 women, the hypothesis that early positive memories are negativelyassociated with disordered eating via social safeness and a positive relationship withone’s body image was tested via path analysis. The tested model explained 51% of eatingpsychopathology’s variance, and revealed a good adjustment to the empirical data. Additionally, social safeness and body appreciation were revealed as mediators of the impact of early warm and safe memories on disordered eating, when controlling for the effect of BMI.These findings suggest the importance of targeting social safeness and acceptance, especiallywhen defining potentially effective programmes for the prevention of eating disorders.

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Early memories of warmth and safeness and eating psychopathology: The mediating role of social safeness and body appreciation

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Ferreira

2017

Psychologica

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“…Therefore, this study was built on previous research [34] to further clarify mechanisms that underlie the association between memories of warmth and connectedness and disordered eating. More specifically, the current study aims to complement previous research [34] emotional defensive responses (such as external shame) [35] and with eating psychopathological symptoms [36]. Moreover, results corroborate that external shame and unfavourable appearance-focused social comparisons are important correlates of disordered eating attitudes and behaviours [36,37].…”

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How do warmth, safeness and connectedness-related memories and experiences explain disordered eating?

2017

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Literature suggested that the recall of early positive experiences have a major impact on the promotion of feelings of connectedness and social safeness, and seems to protect individuals against psychopathology. Recent research has also demonstrated that the absence of these positive rearing memories play a key role on disordered eating-related behaviours. The impact of early affiliative memories on disordered eating do not seem to be direct, and the mechanisms underlying this relationship are scarcely investigated.The present study aimed to clarify how memories of warmth and safeness explain the adoption of disordered eating attitudes, and tested the mediator role of social safeness, external shame and appearance-focused social comparison on aforementioned relationship, in a sample of 277 young women.The tested model explained 36% of eating psychopathology's variance and presented an excellent fit. Path analysis results indicated that the impact of rearing memories on eating psychopathology was fully mediated through the mechanisms of social safeness, external shame and appearance-focused social comparison. Specifically, these findings suggested that the extent to which positive rearing memories are associated with lower levels of disordered eating attitudes is influenced by the current feelings of social safeness and connectedness, which in turn are totally carried by decreased feelings of external shame and by lower endorsement on unfavourable comparison based on physical appearance with proximal targets (peers).These results seem to offer important insights for research and clinical work on body image and eating-related difficulties, suggesting the relevance of promoting warm and safe interactions with others.3

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“…Therefore, a model of disordered eating wherein low perceived social rank is associated with disordered eating among vulnerable individuals through increased shame may explain why shame has been found to mediate the relationship between bullying and disordered eating in adolescent females ( Duarte et al, 2015 , 2017 ). This model may also explain why both shame (i.e., the perception that others evaluate you negatively) and self-criticism have been found to mediate the association between lack of affiliative memories with peers and disordered eating ( Mendes et al, 2017 ). To our knowledge, no studies to date have examined the role of shame in explaining the relationship between RB and disordered eating.…”

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Relational bullying and disordered eating: Testing a moderated mediation model of the role of shame and self-compassion

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ObjectiveExperiences of relational bullying (RB) in adolescence are associated with the development of disordered eating. This association may be related to heightened shame resulting from perceived social inferiority, low social rank, and/or negative evaluation by others. Self-compassion may act as a protective factor against the influence of RB on shame and disordered eating. In the current study, we investigated whether shame mediated the relationship between recalled RB and current disordered eating in a sample of young adults. Then, using conditional process analysis, we examined whether the observed mediation was moderated by self-compassion.MethodParticipants were 359 young adults (aged 17–25) who completed online self-report measures of recalled RB experiences and current disordered eating, shame, and self-compassion.ResultsExperiences of RB were positively related to current shame and disordered eating, and negatively related to current self-compassion, with small-to-medium effect sizes. The association between RB and disordered eating was partially mediated by shame, and this mediation was moderated by self-compassion.DiscussionOur results suggest that young adults with lower self-compassion are more likely to demonstrate a relationship between recalled RB and disordered eating through the mechanism of shame. These findings have important implications for both anti-bullying awareness and eating disorder prevention programs.

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How can the recall of early affiliative memories with peers influence on disordered eating behaviours?

Cited by 12 publications

References 37 publications

Early memories of warmth and safeness and eating psychopathology: The mediating role of social safeness and body appreciation

Early memories of warmth and safeness and eating psychopathology: The mediating role of social safeness and body appreciation

How do warmth, safeness and connectedness-related memories and experiences explain disordered eating?

Relational bullying and disordered eating: Testing a moderated mediation model of the role of shame and self-compassion

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