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Eating disturbance, emotional separation, and body image
Author(s) -
Zakin David F.
Publication year - 1989
Publication title -
international journal of eating disorders
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.785
H-Index - 138
eISSN - 1098-108X
pISSN - 0276-3478
DOI - 10.1002/1098-108x(198907)8:4<411::aid-eat2260080404>3.0.co;2-5
Subject(s) - disturbance (geology) , separation (statistics) , psychology , eating disorders , developmental psychology , clinical psychology , computer science , biology , paleontology , machine learning
Abstract The present study explored the interrelationship of eating disturbance, emotional separation from mother and father, body satisfaction, and body boundary definiteness. Subjects for the study were undergraduate women recruited from an introductory psychology subject pool on the basis of self‐reports of eating behavior. The results indicate that eating disturbance is associated with less emotional separation from parents, greater body dissatisfaction, and less definite body boundaries.