Unattractive, corrupted, and culpable feared self-themes: Expanding our understanding of self-concept in relation to eating pathology

Self and Identity, Год журнала: 2025, Номер unknown, С. 1 - 14

Опубликована: Янв. 16, 2025

There is growing support for fear of self as a transdiagnostic construct implicated in obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and eating disorders. However, few studies have examined how perceived proximity to feared may be associated with the relationship between pathology. A community sample women (N = 290) completed an online questionnaire battery. Eating pathology was positively unattractive and, lesser extent, corrupted culpable selves, suggesting relevance range selves significant interaction this (operationalized "feeling fat") relation

Язык: Английский

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Development and validation of the multidimensional version of the fear of self questionnaire: Corrupted, culpable and malformed feared possible selves in obsessive–compulsive and body‐dysmorphic symptoms

Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy, Год журнала: 2021, Номер 28(5), С. 1160 - 1180

Опубликована: Фев. 6, 2021

In recent years, cognitive-behavioural models of OCD have increasingly recognized the potential role feared possible selves in development and maintenance OCD, while simultaneously re-examining factors that historically been linked to self-perceptions OCD. The current article describes validation a multidimensional version Fear Self Questionnaire (FSQ-EV) non-clinical (N = 626) clinical sample 79). Principal component analyses revealed three conceptually factorially distinct components revolving around corrupted self, culpable self malformed self. questionnaire showed strong internal inconsistency, good divergent convergent validity, including relationships obsessional symptoms. particular, predicted symptoms independently from depression other related self-constructs obsessive beliefs, also strongly interacting with importance control thoughts prediction almost all specific Results are consistent notion can be empirically distinguished beliefs appraisals significant improve our understanding disorders.

Язык: Английский

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Self‐Ambivalence Is Indirectly Associated With Obsessive‐Compulsive and Eating Disorder Symptoms Through Different Feared Self‐Themes

Journal of Clinical Psychology, Год журнала: 2025, Номер unknown

Опубликована: Апрель 14, 2025

ABSTRACT Objectives Uncertainty regarding the self and fear of have been independently identified as relevant to both obsessive‐compulsive disorder (OCD) eating disorders (EDs). The present study aimed examine self‐ambivalence (an indicator uncertainty often characterized by conflicting self‐beliefs) a potential transdiagnostic factor associated with OCD EDs determine whether differences in thematic content feared may be linked experience symptoms one over another despite common co‐occurrence shared processes. Methods Undergraduate community women ( N = 138) completed battery questionnaires, which included measures self‐ambivalence, (assessing three self‐themes: corrupted self, culpable unattractive self), ED symptoms. Results A path analysis revealed that was directly Self‐ambivalence also indirectly via self. There no indirect through Conclusion warrants additional investigation multiple forms psychopathology, representing potentially valuable target for intervention prevention efforts. Differences contribute our understanding divergent trajectories (why individual develop an while develops OCD). Overall, research this kind contributes development improvement models psychopathology integrating

Язык: Английский

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Lose yourself: feared self, emotion regulation, and obsessive-compulsive and eating disorder symptomatology

Australian Psychologist, Год журнала: 2024, Номер unknown, С. 1 - 13

Опубликована: Апрель 21, 2024

Objectives Feared self refers to an individual's "possible" that has undesired qualities or characteristics and been linked obsessive compulsive symptoms. However, feared may also relate eating disorder pathology, given the importance of views in disorder.

Язык: Английский

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Integrating fear of fatness into sociocultural models of body image and eating concerns

Eating Behaviors, Год журнала: 2022, Номер 46, С. 101653 - 101653

Опубликована: Июль 20, 2022

Язык: Английский

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An Investigation of the Relations of Possible Selves and Self-Concept Clarity to Generalized Anxiety Disorder

International Journal of Cognitive Therapy, Год журнала: 2023, Номер 16(3), С. 390 - 415

Опубликована: Май 2, 2023

Язык: Английский

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Further validation of the Multidimensional Version of the Fear‐of‐Self Questionnaire in a Persian non‐clinical and clinical obsessive–compulsive disorder sample

Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy, Год журнала: 2023, Номер 30(4), С. 826 - 841

Опубликована: Фев. 15, 2023

Previous research has shown that vulnerable self-themes and feared self-perceptions may play an important role in the development maintenance of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). In particular, recently validated Multidimensional Version Fear-of-Self Questionnaire (FSQ-MV) strong relationships with OCD symptoms independent cognitive constructs negative mood non-clinical samples. The current study aimed to further evaluate validity reliability a Persian version FSQ-MV patients (N = 300), as well individuals 300). Participants completed set scales evaluating OCD-related symptoms/conditions. results showed replicated three-factor structure original scale patients. its subscales had excellent reliability. Additionally, was significantly associated related constructs, their severity, both self, especially corrupted significant unique predictor OC symptomology, for repugnant obsessions, severity. confirmed FSQ-MV. Moreover, conceptualizations benefit from consideration self OCD, which development,

Язык: Английский

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Self-Reported and Physiological Reactions to Thin and Non-Thin Bodies: Understanding Motivational Processes Associated with Disordered Eating

Cognitive Therapy and Research, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 48(3), С. 1 - 12

Опубликована: Янв. 28, 2024

Язык: Английский

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Exposure to thin and non-thin bodies elicits ‘feeling fat’: Validation of a novel state measure

Eating Behaviors, Год журнала: 2022, Номер 48, С. 101700 - 101700

Опубликована: Дек. 25, 2022

Язык: Английский

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“People need to be valued because of who they are”: Self-conception and strategies of resistance in women who challenge weight-loss diet culture

Feminism & Psychology, Год журнала: 2024, Номер unknown

Опубликована: Апрель 3, 2024

This paper explores how the self-beliefs of women who have rejected weight-loss diet culture inform their strategies resistance. We conducted a qualitative survey inviting participants to share methods they used challenge culture. One hundred and twelve ( M age = 37.01, SD 10.54) provided complete responses. Most were heterosexual (72%) resided in Australia (59%). Our thematic analysis generated two themes: “diet is internalised, dismantling it personal,” which was characterised by participants’ or self-identification, personal counter culture; social, relationships are sites resistance,” reflected beliefs about source worth, as well relational enacted professional lives, interactions with authority figures. Efforts assist challenging could be strengthened recognising implications immersion such for an individual's self perceptions self-worth, harnessing power women's each other. contributes feminist psychological literature on inequalities food bodies, illuminating connections between activism, healthcare, everyday experience.

Язык: Английский

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