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Eating Disorders
The Journal of Treatment & Prevention
Volume 15, 2007 - Issue 1
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Mediating Social Anxiety and Disordered Eating: The Role of Expressive Suppression

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Pages 41-54 | Published online: 18 Feb 2007
 

Abstract

Social anxiety and disordered eating frequently overlap, and evidence suggests that emotional suppression may be an important mediating factor. The present study examines the relationships among social anxiety, emotional suppression, and disordered eating in a non-clinical sample of 160 undergraduate women. Participants completed self-report measures for social anxiety, disordered eating, expressive suppression, depression, and negative affect. Results from mediation analyses indicate that the relationship between social anxiety and disordered eating is fully mediated by expressive suppression. Findings are consistent with a displacement theory in which unexpressed negative affect is shifted towards the body, thereby promoting symptoms of disordered eating.

The first author thanks Meredith McGinley for her assistance and those who kindly volunteered to participate in the study.

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