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L A Ricciardelli1, D Tate, R J Williams
1Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia.
Abstract:
The present study was designed to test whether dietary restraint mediates the relationship between body dissatisfaction and bulimic eating patterns in a sample of 172 university females. Contrary to what was expected the results showed that body dissatisfaction mediated the relationship between dietary restraint and bulimic patterns of eating. Thus the results highlight the primary importance of body dissatisfaction as a predictor of bulimic behavior. Body dissatisfaction encompasses a broad array of dimensions such as self-perceptions, cognitions, affect and behavior and it carries enormous explanatory power but its different components remain largely unexplored.
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