Desire to lose weight, dietary intake and psychological correlates among middle-aged and older women. The CoLaus study

Williams-Kerver & Crowther (2020) examined emotion differentiation (the ability to distinguish between discrete emotions in the moment) and its association with eating disorder symptoms, since it has been linked with maladaptive behaviors such as disordered eating. Another aim of this study was to investigate whether appearance schemas moderate this interaction between emotion differentiation and eating […]

When someone tries to reduce weight after internalizing ideas about their body, comparing themselves favorably to others, and feeling stigmatized, they may end up weight cycling, which is the repetitive process of gaining and losing weight throughout life. The relationship between social pressures, weight cycling, and perceived and internalized stigma has not been systematically investigated […]