Self-esteem and eating behaviors -
Because this is long-lasting and does not seem to depend on circumstances or performance, we call it core low-self-esteem. Other specific features of core low self-esteem are pessimism —an extremely negative view of the future—and hopelessness—the belief that positive change is impossible.
Core low self-esteem is also a risk factor for the development of anorexia nervosa or bulimia nervosa. Furthermore, it is always long-lasting, and its onset is difficult to determine. When core low self-esteem coexists with the eating disorder, it obstructs change through two main processes:.
With core low self-esteem, the chances of treatment success are poor unless low self-esteem is directly addressed. Enhanced cognitive behavior therapy CBT-E , an evidence-based treatment for all eating disorders of adults and adolescents, addresses core low self-esteem in two ways:.
If a patient has obvious cognitive biases, it is best for core low self-esteem to be addressed directly, but the indirect method may be more suitable if it seems feasible to create a self-sustaining network of positive interpersonal relationships.
On the other hand, if the direct method is chosen, core low self-esteem should be addressed using standard cognitive-behavioral strategies and procedures.
As with the other additional modules of CBT-E, it should be addressed alongside eating-disorder psychopathology, allocating half of the agenda time to each.
In any case, change in self-esteem is usually facilitated by a change in other areas, such as the amelioration of eating-disorder psychopathology or improved interpersonal functioning. To find a therapist, visit the Psychology Today Therapy Directory.
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Clinical perfectionism, core low self-esteem and interpersonal problems. In: Fairburn CG, editor. Cognitive behavior therapy and eating disorders New York: The Guilford Press; On the other hand, it is worth subjecting it to a more in-depth analysis with regard to psychological and socio-cultural functioning of the study participants, who were raised in a Western culture, where the binding body image standards serve as a significant indicator of general self-esteem Izydorczyk and Sitnik-Warchulska, Socio-cultural impact on young adults promotes standards of success, ambition, and concentration on appearance and body.
The below average self-esteem among the participants would confirm their tendency to lower their self-esteem, and would confirm that the obtained result indicated a tendency to prefer compulsive attitudes Tables 2 — 4.
According to the psychoanalytic perspective, compulsive eating can be used to produce a sense of feeling alive and build self-esteem make the life sweeter Jacoby, Such results may indicate the narcissistic character of self-esteem in contemporary young adults.
The relationship between self-esteem and narcissism as predictors of eating disorders was indicated by Boucher et al. Compulsive episodes of eating may, according to Tamhane , be a continuation of restrictive eating behavior, helping to maintain self-esteem in the context of the need to implement sociocultural patterns of appearance.
However, the findings warrant future research. The significant positive correlation between self-esteem and emotional eating, and external, and weaker, but still significant, with restrained eating confirmed in the original study together with the above-listed arguments allows one to verify the meaning of socio-cultural influence on self-esteem, including body image and conclude that the value of this measure may remain negatively correlated with the obtained high score for resilience among study participants.
The measurement of resilience levels may confirm high psychological resources of the examined young adults, whereas their resources pertaining to the capacity to evoke positive emotions, coping with stress, overcoming frustration, etc. As shown by other studies, low self-esteem in young people, particularly women, which manifests in lower self-satisfaction, lower sense of self-worth and self-acceptance, constitutes a significant predictor for eating disorders Stice, Low self-esteem is significantly correlated with disordered eating patterns such as anorexic attitude or binge eating Paterson et al.
However, there are studies showing that mental resilience protects against self-assessment of the body McGrath et al. The authors of this study find it difficult to unequivocally interpret the results of their original study.
Without doubt, the search for answers regarding the strength and direction of correlations between self-esteem and resilience requires further research and a more precise research model expanded to involve a more extensive and separate measurement of body image and self-esteem in both young women and men.
The conducted studies were characterized by certain limitation that pertained to both sampling and the research procedure. First, the sampled study group despite being sampled in line with the objective and the required research procedure could constitute a specific group of women and men from a specific background, which could limit the interpretation of the results to other populations.
However, the maintained common socio-demographic criteria for sampling and the number of participants support the reliability of the conducted study. Second, the current study relied on self-report measures. Third, the study group was limited to one period of life, without disorders, and with a normal BMI.
It would be interesting to compare the studied group with people in other developmental periods or presenting disordered eating behaviors e. Research on the dynamics of psychological processes and motivation for engaging in eating attitudes, particularly in the aspect of seeking their psychological predictors, would require future longitudinal studies, which are difficult to carry out.
These would be more reliable and precise in assessing the research material. Nonetheless, the time-consuming character of such studies and the limited ability to conduct them, this form of research procedure was rejected.
With the pre-set research objectives and the research procedure in mind, as well as with due account of methods for measuring variables acknowledged in the literature it was concluded that the adopted assumption and research procedure could be implemented by means of transversal studies.
However, it is worth pointing out that the presented research concerned a group of young adults, which does not happen often. A number of selected personal factors have been analyzed, which are indicated in the literature as important for health and eating behavior.
A group of healthy people was examined, which may be a source of effective preventive methods, especially in the area of eating disorders.
This seems particularly important in the context of the results related to a negative correlation between resilience and self-esteem and a positive correlation between self-esteem and compulsive and restrained eating attitudes.
The idea of a relationship with the influence of socio-cultural and narcissistic self-assessment should be taken into account see Discussion. Future longitudinal studies on a study group of young men and women in long-term research relation although difficult to implement would ensure a more extensive measurement of processes underlying the development of unhealthy eating attitudes.
To sum up the findings of our original study and the performed analyses, we can put forward the following conclusions. First, resilience and impulsivity are psychological predictors that significantly and directly explain unhealthy eating attitudes, both limited food intake in daily diet resilience and compulsive eating impulsivity and resilience.
The higher the resilience, the higher the tendency to restrain eating, and lower to compulsive eating. High level of impulsivity are associated with high levels of compulsive eating.
An important psychological intervening variable in generating unhealthy eating attitudes proved to be a higher level of self-esteem among young people, both men and women.
Emotional intelligence, which remains correlated with resilience, proved an independent variable with no effect on unhealthy eating attitudes. Second, no significant differences were observed between the female and male participants regarding psychological variables they manifested, which were verified in the research model: resilience, self-esteem, and impulsivity, and regarding manifested restrained eating and emotional eating.
Beyond one dependence, studied women and men did not differ in correlations between psychological factors and compulsive and restrained eating. Young women proved to have a higher dependence between impulsivity and a type of compulsive eating, that is external eating.
This kind of eating attitude is related to body image in women and men. Body image also seems to be important for men using restrained eating behavior. The study findings may support promotion of preventive treatment and educational programs implemented particularly among adolescents and young adults to support development of psychological resources resilience, self-esteem.
One should notice that the study findings are useful in raising awareness on the function of food in daily life biological, emotional, and social proposed in educational programs for adolescents and young adults to prevent growth of unhealthy eating patterns and development of eating disorders stimulated by socio-cultural factors.
Preventive programs should include increasing resources such as resilience, as well as awareness of the presented self-esteem including body image in the context of socio-cultural standards that are currently promoted. The datasets generated for this study are available on request to the corresponding author.
BI contributed to the conception, design, and planning of the study, analysis of the data, interpretation of the results, drafting of the manuscript and revising it critically for important intellectual content, final approval of the version to be published, and agrees to be accountable for all aspects of the work.
KS-W contributed to the conception and design of the study, interpretation of the results, drafting of the manuscript and revising it critically for important intellectual content, final approval of the version to be published, and agrees to be accountable for all aspects of the work. SL contributed to the conception and design of the study, analysis of the data, final approval of the version to be published, and agrees to be accountable for all aspects of the work.
AL contributed to the conception of the study, acquisition of the data, final approval of the version to be published, and agrees to be accountable for all aspects of the work.
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