- Title
- Understanding the role of positive body image during digital interventions for eating disorders : secondary analyses of a randomized controlled trial
- Creator
- Linardon, Jake; Tylka, Tracy; Burnette, C.; Shatte, Adrian; Fuller-Tyszkiewicz, Matthew
- Date
- 2022
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/190317
- Identifier
- vital:17581
- Identifier
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bodyim.2022.08.003
- Identifier
- ISSN:1740-1445 (ISSN)
- Abstract
- Despite growing interest in the possible link between positive body image and eating disorder (ED) symptoms, little is known about what role this adaptive construct plays in ED treatment. This study investigated whether: (1) interventions principally designed to target ED psychopathology also lead to improvements in positive body image indices (i.e., body appreciation, functionality appreciation, and body image flexibility); (2) changes in ED symptoms correlate with changes in positive body image, both concurrently and prospectively; and (3) baseline positive body image levels moderate the degree of symptom improvement. Secondary analyses from a randomized controlled trial on digital interventions for EDs (n=600) were conducted. Intervention participants reported greater increases in the three positive body image constructs than the control group (ds=0.15-0.41). Greater pre-post reductions in ED psychopathology and binge eating were associated with greater pre-post improvements in positive body image indices. However, earlier reductions in ED psychopathology and binge eating did not predict later improvements in positive body image at follow-up. None of the positive body image constructs at baseline moderated degree of symptom change. Standard ED interventions can cultivate a more positive body image, although this is not explained by earlier symptom reduction. Understanding the mechanisms through which ED interventions enhance positive body image is needed. © 2022 Elsevier Ltd
- Publisher
- Elsevier Ltd
- Relation
- Body Image Vol. 43, no. (2022), p. 1-7
- Rights
- All metadata describing materials held in, or linked to, the repository is freely available under a CC0 licence
- Rights
- Copyright © 2022 Elsevier Ltd
- Subject
- 4206 Public health; 4410 Sociology; 5205 Social and personality psychology; Binge eating; Body appreciation; Body image flexibility; Digital interventions; Eating disorders; Functionality appreciation; Positive body image; Randomized controlled trial
- Reviewed
- Funder
- J.L. (APP1196948) received a National Health and Medical Research Council Investigator Grant.
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