Investigating the Components of Body Image Disturbance Within Eating Disorders.

ABSTRACT: Body image disturbance has been highlighted as a common characteristic within the development and maintenance of clinical eating disorders (EDs), represented by alterations in an individual's bodily experience. However, whilst the perceptual stability of the sense of body ownership has been investigated in ED patients, the stability of the sense of body agency in those with ED is yet to be examined. Therefore, body ownership and body agency were investigated using the moving rubber hand illusion, alongside measures of explicit and implicit body satisfaction. Furthermore, with evidence demonstrating a direct link between perceptual and cognitive-affective components of body image in the healthy population, the relationship between measures of body perception and body satisfaction was invest

SUBMITTER: Carey M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6759942 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature