Consequences of Repeated Critical Versus Neutral Body Checking in Women With High Shape or Weight Concern.

ABSTRACT: Body checking is a repeated behavior conducted in an attempt to gain information about one's shape, weight, size, or body composition. Body checking is associated with negative behavioral, emotional, and cognitive outcomes and may maintain body dissatisfaction and eating disorders. The precise function and consequences of body checking remain less well understood. Specifically, immediate and delayed impacts of repeated critical body checking (CBC) have not been determined. The current study randomly assigned 142 young women with high shape/weight concern to daily 10-min CBC, neutral body checking (NBC), or a non-body critical checking (NBCC) comparison condition, examining their immediate and delayed (one-week follow-up) effects on body satisfaction, self-esteem, and negative affect. Multi

SUBMITTER: Walker DC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8827350 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature