Optimisation by knife

Gerisch, Benigna; Salfeld, Benedikt; Beerbom, Christiane; Busch, Katarina; King, Vera

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“…The research interest in these to a relevant part mood- and work-related disorders (precisely, depression, burnout syndrome) is in line with current psychosocial debates on the impact of late capitalism on the subject. Bulimia, however, appears to be correlated with environmental factors that idealize specific body images (Gerisch et al, 2018; Keel and Forney, 2013; King et al, 2020). To our knowledge, there is no existing statistical data that investigate any mental disorder as a trigger or enhancement for ST at all.…”

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Quantifying self-quantification: A statistical study on individual characteristics and motivations for digital self-tracking in young- and middle-aged adults in Germany

Findeis¹,

Salfeld²,

Voigt³

et al. 2021

New Media & Society

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This study presents a quantitative account of who uses or stops using digital self-tracking (ST). A representative sample of German adults aged 20–50 years ( N = 1022) completed an online survey on their ST practices, personality traits and attitudes toward numbers, on sociodemographic characteristics, mental disorders (particularly bulimia, burnout syndrome, and depression) and somatic disorders. A descriptive statistical analysis was performed on differences between self-trackers and non-trackers. Among others, they differ regarding age, civil status, social class, presence of mental and/or somatic diagnoses, performance-pressure, and strive for competition. A consequent binary logistic regression analysis suggests perfectionism, a somatic diagnosis within the last 5 years, a diagnosis of bulimia in the past, as well as a present mental diagnosis to be significant predictors for ST, though the predictive value of the factors was relatively low.

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Quantifying self-quantification: A statistical study on individual characteristics and motivations for digital self-tracking in young- and middle-aged adults in Germany

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Salfeld²,

Voigt³

et al. 2021

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“…Broadly speaking, the APAS project investigates the connections between social transformation (understood as the logic of enhancement, growth, intensification, acceleration, etc.) and psychological patterns of coping (Gerisch, Salfeld, Beerbom, Busch, & King, 2019; King, Schreiber, Uhlendorf, & Gerisch, 2019). As described above, we assume a social dynamization of the structures of competition and recognition, which creates various kinds of pressure to optimize and holds consequences for social relationships, self-constructs, and body practices.…”

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“. . . To really have everything completely perfect”: On the psychodynamics of contemporary forms of body optimization.

King

Gerisch

Schreiber

2020

Psychoanalytic Psychology

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This article discusses practices of body optimization in the social context of a permanent struggle for the enhancement of performance and self-improvement that affects all areas of life. First, it considers social psychological, sociological and psychoanalytic approaches to this phenomenon before presenting and interpreting two female case studies from a research project. Pivotal in this regard is the question of how and in what way social needs and demands, on the one hand, can interact with individual biographical dispositions, on the other hand, to create specific forms of (body-related) optimization practices. Since forms of body optimization serve as a means of dealing with psychic problems and conflicts (which, to some extent, have analogous structures to eating disorders), questions concerning the shifts of normality and pathology arise.

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The estimated burden of bulimia nervosa in the Middle East and North Africa region, 1990–2019

Safiri

Noori

Nejadghaderi

et al. 2022

Intl J Eating Disorders

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Objective We aimed to report the burden of bulimia nervosa (BN) in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region by age, sex, and sociodemographic index (SDI), for the period 1990–2019. Methods Estimates of the prevalence, incidence, and disability‐adjusted life‐years (DALYs) attributable to BN were retrieved from the Global Burden of Disease study 2019, between 1990 and 2019, for the 21 countries in the MENA region. The counts and age‐standardized rates (per 100,000) were presented, along with their corresponding 95% uncertainty intervals. Results In 2019, the estimated regional age‐standardized point prevalence and incidence rates of BN were 168.3 (115.0–229.6) and 178.6 (117.0–255.6) per 100,000, which represented 22.0% (17.5–27.2) and 10.4% (7.1–14.7) increases, respectively, since 1990. Moreover, in 2019 the regional age‐standardized DALY rate was 35.5 (20.6–55.5) per 100,000, which was 22.2% (16.7–28.2) higher than in 1990. In 2019, Qatar (58.6 [34.3–92.5]) and Afghanistan (18.4 [10.6–29.2]) had the highest and lowest age‐standardized DALY rates, respectively. Regionally, the age‐standardized point prevalence of BN peaked in the 30–34 age group and was more prevalent among women. In addition, there was a generally positive association between SDI and the burden of BN across the measurement period. Discussion In the MENA region, the burden of BN has increased over the last three decades. Cost‐effective preventive measures are needed in the region, especially in the high SDI countries. Public Significance This study reports the estimated burden of BN in the MENA region and shows that its burden has increased over the last three decades.

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Optimisation by knife

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Quantifying self-quantification: A statistical study on individual characteristics and motivations for digital self-tracking in young- and middle-aged adults in Germany

Quantifying self-quantification: A statistical study on individual characteristics and motivations for digital self-tracking in young- and middle-aged adults in Germany

“. . . To really have everything completely perfect”: On the psychodynamics of contemporary forms of body optimization.

The estimated burden of bulimia nervosa in the Middle East and North Africa region, 1990–2019

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