The Impact of a Dissonance-Based Eating Disorders Intervention on Implicit Attitudes to Thinness in Women of Diverse Sexual Orientations.

ABSTRACT: Dissonance-based body image programs have shown long-term effectiveness in preventing eating disorders and reducing risk factors for eating disorders in women. Here we report on the potential for one such intervention to impact on implicit attitudes toward thinness as well as an explicit measure of eating attitudes, across a sexually diverse group of young women. The Succeed Body Image Programme was adapted to remove heteronormative assumptions and was delivered to a final sample of 56 undergraduate women who reported their sexual orientation as either "predominantly heterosexual" (our term; 1 or 2 on a 7-point Kinsey scale, n = 38) or non-heterosexual (3-7 on the Kinsey scale, n = 18). Before and after the intervention, they completed the Eating Attitudes Test-26, and an ass

SUBMITTER: Kant RMN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6895132 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature