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Proceedings of the 2014 Australia and New Zealand Academy for Eating Disorders (ANZAED) Conference: Driven Bodies Driven Brains

A psychosocial risk factor model for female eating disorders: a European multicentre project

Journal of Eating Disorders volume 2, Article number: O39 (2014) Cite this article

Aim

To investigate through Structural Equation Modelling (SEM), the relationship between parenting styles, teasing about body weight/shape or eating, internalization of the thin ideal and body dissatisfaction amongst eating disorders (EDs) and controls and to see whether the risk factor model differed across various European countries and ED subtypes.

Method

The total sample comprised 1373 participants(ED patients=618).The Cross-Cultural Questionnaire (CCQ) was used to assess the above-mentioned risk factors.

Results

SEM analyses showed that the best fitting model was one allowing risk paths to vary across countries [χ2(425)=2105.271,p<.0001,RMSEA,=.022,CFI=.980]. In all countries teasing about weight/shape or eating was associated with body dissatisfaction(directly and via internalization of the thin ideal).There was a strong significant path from body dissatisfaction to ED(standardised path coefficient across countries:0.44-0.69, p<0.0001).Teasing about weight/shape or eating also directly predicted EDs (in the UK, Spain and Slovenia).There was however a weak effect of parenting on both teasing about weight/shape or eating and EDs directly.Risk models slightly varied across ED diagnoses.

Conclusion

Our hypothesised model was partially confirmed; in particular the central role of teasing on EDs both directly and mediated by internalization of the thin ideal and body dissatisfaction was shown across five European countries.Conversely, the effect of parenting varied by country and therefore might have cross-cultural effects.

This abstract was presented in the Prevention & Public Health stream of the 2014 ANZAED Conference.

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  1. The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia

    Isabel Krug

  2. Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia

    Matthew Fuller-Tyszkiewicz

  3. Monash University, Melbourne, Australia

    Sarah Mitchell

  4. University Hospital of Bellvitge, Barcelona, Spain

    Fernando Fernandez-Aranda

  5. University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

    Andreas Karwautz & Gudrun Wagner

  6. University Medical Centre Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia

    Marija Anderluh

  7. Fondazione Centro S.Raffaele del Monte Tabor, Milan, Italy

    Laura Bellodi

  8. University of Florence, Florence, Italy

    Benedetta Nacmias, Valdo Rica & Sandro Sorbi

  9. King's College London, London, UK

    Kate Tchanturia, David Collier & Janet Treasure

  10. University College London, London, UK

    Nadia Micali

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  1. Isabel Krug
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Correspondence to Isabel Krug.

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Krug, I., Fuller-Tyszkiewicz, M., Mitchell, S. et al. A psychosocial risk factor model for female eating disorders: a European multicentre project. J Eat Disord 2, O39 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1186/2050-2974-2-S1-O39

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Keywords

  • Structural Equation Modelling
  • Eating Disorder
  • Body Dissatisfaction
  • Parenting Style
  • Path Coefficient

Journal of Eating Disorders

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