title: Body-related behaviours and cognitions: relationship to eating psychopathology in non-clinical women and men.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Eating disturbances and poor body image are maintained by body-related safety behaviours and their associated cognitions. These include body checking, avoidance, comparison and display, which can be seen as safety behaviours, maintaining eating pathology and poor body image. It is not clear from the existing literature whether these behavioural and cognitive patterns are independently related to eating psychopathology.
  
  
  METHODS
  This study of a non-clinical group of women and men (N = 250) explored the association of eating attitudes and behaviours with these four elements of body-related behaviours and cognitions.
  
  
  RESULTS
  It was found that each of the four elements had independent associations with eating attitudes and behaviours. Those associations were not explained by anxiety or depression levels.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Whilst these findings require study within a clinical group, they suggest that all four elements of body-related behaviours and cognitions need to be considered as potential maintaining factors when formulating eating psychopathology and body image disturbance.
authors: Loughborough University and Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, UK.
authors: Caroline
authors: C
authors: Meyer
authors: Lauren
authors: L
authors: McPartlan
authors: Anthony
authors: A
authors: Rawlinson
authors: Jo
authors: J
authors: Bunting
authors: Glenn
authors: G
authors: Waller
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001008:Anxiety Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology; D001362:Avoidance Learning; D001364:Awareness; D057215:Body Dysmorphic Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology*; D015992:Body Mass Index; D003469:Culture; D003674:Defense Mechanisms; D003866:Depressive Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D001068:Feeding and Eating Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010555:Personality Inventory / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D011594:Psychometrics / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D011599:Psychopathology; D012016:Reference Values; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012737:Sex Factors; D055815:Young Adult