Eating Disorders: a sense of insecurity is an early risk factor
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Insecurity plays a key role in the
development of a negative body image, shows a study of women with eating
disorders, which suggests that prevention and treatment can be enhanced by
greater attention brought to an early separation anxiety and a sense of insecurity
in the relationship to the parents.
The attachment theory, explained Dr.
Alfonso Troisi and colleagues at the University of Rome in the journal
"Psychosomatic Medicine", argues that early experiences build the
adult personality. Babies who are under great emotional focus and develop a
model of themselves loved and valued and a model of the other magnet.
Babies, on the other hand, are
victims of neglect or rejection from their parents, and come to believe that
they can not count on others, begin to think they do not deserve to be loved.
The development of body
dissatisfaction in these individuals may be related to a decrease in
self-esteem and an increased need to be accepted by others, suggest the
researchers.
Using questionnaires, they examined
the association between a low secure attachment from a young age and separation
anxiety on the one hand, and dissatisfaction with his body on the other hand,
among women aged 96 of twenty and thirty years with anorexia nervosa or
bulimia.
The analysis confirms their
hypothesis, reports the team found a little insecure attachment and early
separation anxiety were both strongly associated with a negative body image,
even after taking into account both risk factors , weight and depression.
"Our results confirm that the little
insecure attachment is correlated with a negative body image", not only
for girls but also for women who suffer from eating disorders
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