Elskamp, Dessa (2023) Disentangling the Relationships between Upward Social Comparison Frequency, Body Shame, Attachment Anxiety and Weight-loss Dieting in College Women: A Moderated Mediation Analysis. Bachelor thesis, Psychology.
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Abstract
The present study was intended to clarify the roles of upward social comparison frequency (USCF), body shame, and attachment anxiety on weight-loss dieting (WLD). A moderated mediation model was predicted over and above levels of body dissatisfaction and attachment avoidance. It was hypothesized that with increasing USCF and increasing attachment anxiety, the more episodes of body shame women would experience, and in turn, the greater would be the frequency of WLD. A total of 206 college women participated in the study by completing an online self-report questionnaire via Qualtrics. The bootstrap analysis of PROCESS-macro (Hayes, 2013) did not support the predicted moderated mediation model. However, further data exploration showed that body shame mediates the relationship between USCF and WLD as well as the relationship between attachment anxiety and WLD after excluding body dissatisfaction. The non-significant findings when body dissatisfaction was included as a control variable, indicate that other emotions related to body dissatisfaction might also mediate the relationship between attachment anxiety and WLD. Nevertheless, the present findings are making contributions to the field of eating pathologies, suggesting a role of body shame in WLD. Future research should examine this relationship to a greater extent, especially in clinical samples.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Bachelor) |
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| Supervisor name: | Dalley, S.E. |
| Degree programme: | Psychology |
| Differentiation route: | None [Bachelor Psychology] |
| Date Deposited: | 19 Jul 2023 09:17 |
| Last Modified: | 19 Jul 2023 09:17 |
| URI: | http://gmwpublic.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/2457 |
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