TY - JOUR
T1 - Cognitive Schemas and Eating Disorder Risk
T2 - the Role of Distress Tolerance
AU - Hovrud, Lindsey
AU - Simons, Raluca
AU - Simons, Jeffrey
N1 - Funding Information:
This study was funded by The University Research Fellowship and the Department of Psychology.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2019, Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
PY - 2020/3/1
Y1 - 2020/3/1
N2 - The current study tested the role of distress tolerance between cognitive schemas (emotional inhibition, defectiveness/shame, social isolation, and insufficient self-control) and eating disorder (ED) risk in a sample of 469 college students via structural equation analysis. While research indicates maladaptive cognitive schemas are positively associated with dysregulated eating, mechanisms of this relationship are not well established. Distress tolerance has been consistently associated with bulimia behaviors and body dissatisfaction; however, few studies have evaluated the role of distress tolerance in relation to cognitive schemas. In the current study, distress tolerance mediated associations between specific schemas of social isolation and insufficient self-control and eating disorder risk. These findings provide preliminary evidence suggesting specific cognitive schemas may contribute to low distress tolerance, which increases risk of ED-related behaviors and cognitions.
AB - The current study tested the role of distress tolerance between cognitive schemas (emotional inhibition, defectiveness/shame, social isolation, and insufficient self-control) and eating disorder (ED) risk in a sample of 469 college students via structural equation analysis. While research indicates maladaptive cognitive schemas are positively associated with dysregulated eating, mechanisms of this relationship are not well established. Distress tolerance has been consistently associated with bulimia behaviors and body dissatisfaction; however, few studies have evaluated the role of distress tolerance in relation to cognitive schemas. In the current study, distress tolerance mediated associations between specific schemas of social isolation and insufficient self-control and eating disorder risk. These findings provide preliminary evidence suggesting specific cognitive schemas may contribute to low distress tolerance, which increases risk of ED-related behaviors and cognitions.
KW - Cognitive schemas
KW - Distress tolerance
KW - Eating disorder risk
KW - Eating disorders
KW - Emotional dysregulation
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U2 - 10.1007/s41811-019-00055-5
DO - 10.1007/s41811-019-00055-5
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85075364972
SN - 1937-1209
VL - 13
SP - 54
EP - 66
JO - International Journal of Cognitive Therapy
JF - International Journal of Cognitive Therapy
IS - 1
ER -