Body image disturbance, interoceptive sensibility and the body schema across female adulthood: a pre-registered study.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Body image disturbance (BID) typically involves explicit negative attitudes toward one's shape and weight and is associated with altered interoceptive sensibility (the subjective perception of internal bodily states). This association is a known risk factor for the development and maintenance of eating disorders. However, while research has centred on younger women with eating disorders, diverse facets of BID appear in women without eating disorders across adulthood. Research shows that in the general population, young women (ages 18-25) with high BID exhibit disturbances in the body schema: an implicit sensorimotor representation of the body in space which includes mental simulation of a movement such as motor imagery. Given that body image is subject to age-related i

SUBMITTER: Naraindas AM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10720753 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature