Body Image Distortion in Anorexia and Bulimia Nervosa: The Role of Perceived and Actual Control

Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

Volumn 184, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 213-219

  Waller, Glenn ^a   Hodgson, Sharon ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b Bolton Health Authority   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANOREXIA NERVOSA; ARTICLE; BODY IMAGE; BULIMIA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROL; FEMALE; HELPLESSNESS; HUMAN;

ADULT; ANOREXIA NERVOSA; BODY IMAGE; BULIMIA; COGNITION; FEMALE; HELPLESSNESS, LEARNED; HUMANS; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; PERCEPTUAL DISTORTION; PROBLEM SOLVING; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 0029930019     PISSN: 00223018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005053-199604000-00003     Document Type: Article

References (30)

1. Abramson LY, Seligman MEP, Teasdale JD (1978) Learned helplessness in humans: Critique and reformulation. J Abnorm Psychol 87:49-74.
2. American Psychiatric Association (1987) Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders III (revised). Washington, DC: Author.
3. Bastiani AM, Rao R, Weltzin T, Kaye WH (1995) Perfectionism in anorexia nervosa. Int J Eat Disord 17:147-152.
4. Ben-Tovim DI, Crisp AH (1979) A controlled study of the perception of body width in anorexia nervosa. J Psychosom Res 23:267-272.
5. Bruch H (1962) Perceptual and conceptual disturbances in anorexia nervosa. Psychosom Med 24:187-194.
6. Bruch H (1988) In Czyzewski D, Suhr MA (Eds), Conversations with anorexics. New York: Basic Books.
7. Burger JM (1992) Desire for control: Personality, social, and clinical perspectives. New York: Plenum.
8. Crisp AH, Kalucy RS (1974) Aspects of the perceptual disorder in anorexia nervosa. Br J Med Psychol 47:349-361.
9. Fabian LJ, Thompson JK (1989) Body image and eating disturbance in young females. Int J Eat Disord 8:63-74.
10. Fahy TA (1991) Obsessive-compulsive symptoms in eating disorders. Behav Res Ther 29:113-116.
11. Garner DM, Olmsted MP, Bohr Y, Garfinkel PE (1982) The Eating Attitudes Test: Psychometric features and clinical correlates. Psychol Med 12:871-878.
12. Hamachek DE (1976) Psychodynamics of normal and neurotic perfectionism. Psychology 15:27-33.
13. Heatherton TF, Baumeister RF (1991) Binge eating as escape from self-awareness. Psychol Bull 110:86-108.
14. Holden NL (1990) Is anorexia nervosa an obsessive-compulsive disorder? Br J Psychiatry 157:1-5.
15. Hsu LKG, Sobkiewicz TA (1991) Body image disturbance: Time to abandon the concept for eating disorders? Int J Eat Disord 10:15-30.
16. King M (1989) Locus of control in women with eating pathology. Psychol Med 19:183-187.
17. Kirk RE (1968) Experimental design: Procedures for behavioral sciences. Belmont, California: Wadsworth.
18. Lacey JH (1986) Pathogenesis. In LJ Downey, JC Malkin (Eds) Current approaches: Bulimia nervosa. Southampton, United Kingdom: Duphar.
19. Llewellyn-Jones D, Abraham, SF (1984) Quetelet index in diagnosis of anorexia nervosa. BMJ 288:1800.
20. Norris DL (1984) The effects of mirror confrontation on self-estimation of body dimensions in anorexia nervosa, bulimia and two control groups. Psychol Med 14:835-842.
21. Rezek PJ, Leary MR (1991) Perceived control, drive for thinness, and food consumption: Anorexic tendencies as displaced reactance. J Person 59:129-142.
22. Rothbaum F, Weisz JR, Snyder SS (1982) Changing the world and changing the self: A two-process model of perceived control. J Person Soc Psychol 42:5-37.
23. Slade PD (1977) Awareness of body dimensions during pregnancy: An analogue study. Psychol Med 7:245-252.
24. Slade PD (1982) Towards a functional analysis of anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa. Br J Clin Psychol 21:167-179.
25. Slade PD (1985) A review of body-image studies in anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa. J Psychiatr Res 19:255-265.
26. Slade PD, Dewey ME, Newton T, Brodie D, Kiemle G (1990) Development and preliminary validation of the Body Satisfaction Scale (BSS). Psychol Health 4:213-220.
27. Slade PD, Russell GFM (1973) Awareness of body dimensions in anorexia nervosa: Cross-sectional and longitudinal studies. Psychol Med 3:188-199.
28. Strober M (1980) Personality and symptomalogical features in young, nonchronic anorexia nervosa patients. J Psychosom Res 24:353-359.
29. Thompson JK (1990) Body image disturbance: Assessment and treatment. New York: Pergamon.
30. Tresselt ME, Mayzner MS (1966) Normative solution times for a sample of 134 solution words and 378 anagrams. Psychonom Monogr Suppl 1:293-298.