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- Title
Can Self-Reassurance Buffer against the Impact of Bullying? Effects on Body Shame and Disordered Eating in Adolescence.
- Authors
Duarte, Cristiana; Pinto-Gouveia, José
- Abstract
Bullying experiences are associated with body image and eating-related problems. Nonetheless, research on possible resilience factors is scant. The current study tested a path model examining the association between emotional memories of experiences of warmth and safeness, and self-reassuring abilities, and whether these abilities moderate the impact of bullying experiences on body image shame and eating psychopathology. We tested this model in a nonclinical sample of 609 adolescent girls aged 12-18 years. The examined model accounted for 22 % of body image shame variance and 51 % of eating psychopathology variance. Memories of warmth and safeness were significantly associated with self-reassurance, and negatively linked to body image shame and eating psychopathology. Self-reassurance significantly moderated the association between bullying experiences and both body image shame and eating psychopathology. The present findings suggest the relevance of assessing the quality of interpersonal experiences reported by adolescents and their potential association with self-reassuring abilities. Moreover, these results suggest that the ability to reassure and soothe the self may have a buffering effect against the negative impact of bullying experiences on adolescents' body image and eating behaviors.
- Subjects
PORTUGAL; SELF-reliance in adolescence; BULLYING &; psychology; SHAME in adolescence; BODY image in adolescence; PSYCHOLOGY of teenage girls; EATING disorders in adolescence; MEMORY in adolescence; PATHOLOGICAL psychology; ADAPTABILITY (Personality); ADOLESCENT psychology; BODY image; CHI-squared test; STATISTICAL correlation; EATING disorders; EMOTIONS; FOOD habits; HUMAN comfort; INGESTION; INTERPERSONAL relations in adolescence; MEMORY; PATH analysis (Statistics); PROBABILITY theory; QUESTIONNAIRES; RESEARCH funding; SHAME; BODY mass index; MAXIMUM likelihood statistics; DATA analysis software; DESCRIPTIVE statistics
- Publication
Journal of Child & Family Studies, 2017, Vol 26, Issue 4, p998
- ISSN
1062-1024
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10826-016-0624-1