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Arousal, physical activity, and energy balance in eating and body weight and shape disorders
Author(s) -
Crisp Arthur H.
Publication year - 1985
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/eat.2260040422
Subject(s) - balance (ability) , arousal , psychology , eating disorders , energy balance , body weight , developmental psychology , clinical psychology , medicine , social psychology , endocrinology , neuroscience , physics , thermodynamics
It is argued that psychopathologically driven body weight and shape disorders in the female are intimately bound up with experience of the physical parameters of the self, their perceived implications for self‐esteem on the one hand, and survival on the other. The avoidance of turmoil may lead to profound distortions of normal growth processes and resting metabolism, creating a worsening of the psychological problem.