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Determine the psychological and demographic predictors of body image dissatisfaction among severely obese men and women seeking bariatric surgery.

January 1, 2005International Journal of Eating Disorders

Binge eating and self-esteem predict body image dissatisfaction among obese men and women seeking bariatric surgery

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Determine the psychological and demographic predictors of body image dissatisfaction among severely obese men and women seeking bariatric surgery.
Evaluated a consecutive series of 260 gastric bypass candidates (44 men and 216 women).
Tested candidate predictors including gender, ethnicity, BMI, age at onset of overweight, childhood maltreatment, binge eating, depression, and self-esteem using stepwise multiple regression analyses.
Women reported significantly higher levels of body image dissatisfaction than men.
Stepwise multiple regression indicated that gender, binge eating, and self-esteem together accounted for 41% of the total variance in body image dissatisfaction.
In sex-stratified models, binge eating and self-esteem accounted for 56% of the variance among men and 33% of the variance among women.

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Cross-sectional study reveals binge eating and low self-esteem drive body image dissatisfaction in bariatric surgery candidates, highlighting critical psychological targets.

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Grilo et al. (2005) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a6f9973f44fa9f079dd0f53 https://doi.org/10.1002/eat.20130

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Cross-sectional study reveals binge eating and low self-esteem drive body image dissatisfaction in bariatric surgery candidates, highlighting critical psychological targets.

Binge eating and self-esteem predict body image dissatisfaction among obese men and women seeking bariatric surgery

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Binge eating and self-esteem predict body image dissatisfaction among obese men and women seeking bariatric surgery

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