The effects of social support and coping on the relationship between social anxiety and eating disorders

The current study examined the hypotheses that social support and coping moderate and or mediate the relationship between a broad and a narrow form of social anxiety and eating disorder symptoms. One hundred sixty-nine female undergraduates at a private Midwestern university, completed measures of s...

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Published inEating behaviors : an international journal Vol. 11; no. 2; pp. 85 - 91
Main Authors Wonderlich-Tierney, Anna L., Vander Wal, Jillon S.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Kidlington Elsevier Ltd 01.04.2010
Elsevier
Subjects
Adaptation, Psychological
Adolescent
Adult and adolescent clinical studies
Anxiety - psychology
Anxiety disorders. Neuroses
Biological and medical sciences
Body Image
Coping behavior
Eating behavior disorders
Eating disorders
Feeding and Eating Disorders - psychology
Female
Humans
Medical sciences
Miscellaneous
Personality Inventory
Phobia
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychopathology. Psychiatry
Social anxiety
Social Behavior
Social Support
Stress, Psychological - psychology
Surveys and Questionnaires
Young Adult
Coping behavior
Eating disorders
Social anxiety
Social support
Human
Social phobia
Anxiety disorder
Eating disorder
Symptomatology
Social interaction
Coping
Predictive factor
Woman
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Summary:The current study examined the hypotheses that social support and coping moderate and or mediate the relationship between a broad and a narrow form of social anxiety and eating disorder symptoms. One hundred sixty-nine female undergraduates at a private Midwestern university, completed measures of social support, coping, social anxiety, fear of negative evaluation, and disordered eating attitudes and behaviors. Results of hierarchical multiple regression analyses indicated that higher levels of social support are associated with a weaker association between social anxiety and eating disorder symptomatology. Low use of task- and avoidant-oriented (distraction) coping and increased use of emotion-oriented coping are associated with a stronger association between social anxiety and eating disorder symptomatology. Implications for research and clinical intervention are discussed.
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ISSN:1471-0153
1873-7358
DOI:10.1016/j.eatbeh.2009.10.002