Self-esteem and negative affectivity as mediators of the prospective links between adolescent interpersonal peer problems and disordered eating behaviors

An update on the underlying risk factors of eating disorders onset during adolescence: a systematic review

“…According to this data, the amount of research about the association of peers, family and society characteristics with EDs symptomatology during adolescence are reduced, compared to that of studies about individual characteristics and EDs. For example, from the 47 included studies in this systematic review, only 10 ( Halliwell and Harvey, 2006;Unikel et al, 2013;Dakanalis et al, 2014;Rodgers et al, 2014;Fortes et al, 2016;Kaewpradub et al, 2017;Rosewall et al, 2018;Macedo-Uchôa et al, 2019;Argydes et al, 2020;Pamies-Aubalat et al, 2022), eight (Leung et al, 1995;Baylan et al, 2009;Salafia and Lemer, 2012;Iannaccone et al, 2016;Gan et al, 2018;Lee et al, 2018;Pace et al, 2018;Sepúlveda et al, 2021) and six (Shroff and Thompson, 2006;Shomaker and Furman, 2009;Salafia and Lemer, 2012;Sharpe et al, 2014;Pace et al, 2018;Beckers et al, 2023) studied the relationship between society, family and peers with disordered eating behaviors, respectively.…”

“…These individuals perceive the positive reinforcement they need in their equal relationships (Pace et al, 2018;Piko et al, 2023). On the contrary, low-quality relationships based on lack of support, feeling alienated or less self-validation have been identified as risk factors of EDs (Sharpe et al, 2014;Beckers et al, 2023). Moreover, adolescents have been identified as a common audience of appearance-focused accounts on social networking sites (Vall-Roqué et al, 2021) which could lead to exacerbate negative attitudes against weight and body, even suffering from appearance teasing and poor communication (Shroff and Thompson, 2006;Shomaker and Furman, 2009).…”

“…Perceived peer support was identified as a protective moderator in the relationship between paternal achievement oriented psychological control and EDs symptomatology (Pace et al, 2018;Piko et al, 2023). However, characteristics related with low-quality friendships such as conflicts among friends (Beckers et al, 2023), provide less self-validations, feelings of alienation and perception of less helpful friendships are associated with more probabilities of presenting symptoms of EDs (Sharpe et al, 2014). Moreover, peers' negative attitudes against body and weight, experienced weight, or appearance teasing (Shomaker and Furman, 2009), and poor communication were more likely to lead to bulimia symptomatology (Shroff and Thompson, 2006).…”

“…However, the risk factors identified in the included studies did not present relevant differences in terms of country or culture. All studies had a cross-sectional design except for eight longitudinal studies (Shomaker and Furman, 2009;Bachar et al, 2010;Boone et al, 2014;Dakanalis et al, 2014;Wade et al, 2015;Pace et al, 2018;Evans et al, 2019;Beckers et al, 2023). Most of the studies used regression and structured equation modeling analysis.…”

“…A total of 12 studies showed self-esteem as a predictive factor with a direct influence on EDs symptomatology. Adolescents with lower selfesteem scores were more likely to develop disordered eating behaviors (McCabe and Vincent, 2003;Altamirano et al, 2011;Gomes et al, 2015;Teixeira et al, 2016;Gan et al, 2018;Rosewall et al, 2018;Jones et al, 2020;Zamani et al, 2020;Cella et al, 2021;Mora et al, 2022;Beckers et al, 2023;Ćorić et al, 2023). In two studies analyzing the role of gender, self-esteem was a strong predictor of the onset EDs symptomatology in both women and men (McCabe and Vincent, 2003;Cella et al, 2021).…”