ArticleJournal of eating disorders2025
Body image dissatisfaction and disordered eating behaviors in Chinese female undergraduate students: the mediating role of emotional regulation strategies.
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- Associations between muscle dysmorphia-related body image concerns, physical activity, and body composition: a cross-sectional study among young Asian adults in Malaysia.Journal of physiological anthropology · 2026Article
- The Predictive Level of Body Image and Self-Esteem in Emerging Adulthood on Eating Attitudes: The Mediating Role of Life Satisfaction.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Appearance anxiety and college students' exercise participation: a chain mediation model of negative body image and exercise self-efficacy.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Distinct stress, eating, and body image phenotypes among university students: a latent class analysis in Saudi Arabia.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
- The relationship between fat talk and body image in Chinese female nursing students: The mediating role of self-acceptance.PloS one · 2026Article
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backgroundFemale undergraduates are a high-risk population for body image dissatisfaction and eating disorder symptomatology. This study aimed to investigate the prevalence of body image dissatisfaction and disordered eating behaviors, as well as to examine the mediating roles of two emotion regulation strategies (cognitive reappraisal and expressive suppression) on the relationship between body image dissatisfaction and disordered eating behaviors among female undergraduate students in China.
methodsA total of 1756 Chinese female students, with a mean age of 19.8 years (SD = 1.5), were included in the study. Participants completed an online survey comprising items related to body image dissatisfaction, emotion regulation, and disordered eating behaviors. Covariance-based structural equation modeling (CB-SEM) technique was employed, with the hypothesized parallel mediation model tested using 10,000 bootstrap samples.
resultsMore than half of the participants (60.5%, n = 1063) reported body image dissatisfaction and demonstrated high levels of disordered eating behaviors, including uncontrolled eating (52.5%, n = 922), emotional eating (54.0%, n = 948), and cognitive restraint (57.4%, n = 1008). Cognitive reappraisal partially mediated the associations between body image dissatisfaction and uncontrolled eating (b = 0.047, 95% CI [0.035, 0.061]), emotional eating (b = 0.047, 95% CI [0.035, 0.062]), and cognitive restraint (b = 0.040, 95% CI [0.029, 0.055]). Expressive suppression also showed partial mediating effects in these associations: uncontrolled eating (b = 0.055, 95% CI [0.042, 0.072]), emotional eating (b = 0.053, 95% CI [0.040, 0.070]), and cognitive restraint (b = 0.053, 95% CI [0.038, 0.069]). Further, there were direct effects of body image dissatisfaction on uncontrolled eating (b = 0.165, 95% CI [0.125, 0.205]), emotional eating (b = 0.183, 95% CI [0.140, 0.226]), and cognitive restraint (b = 0.196, 95% CI [0.153, 0.240]).
conclusionsThis study found that both cognitive reappraisal and expressive suppression partially mediated the relationship between body image dissatisfaction and disordered eating behaviors, underscoring the importance of targeting emotion regulation strategies in prevention and early intervention efforts among Chinese female undergraduates.
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