Kamila Czepczor-BernatMedical University of Silesia in Katowice | SUM
Kamila Czepczor-Bernat
Assistant Professor
Department of Pediatrics, Pediatric Obesity and Metabolic Bone Diseases, Faculty of Medical Sciences in Katowice
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Although scholars started investigating self-objectification more than twenty years ago, only a few studies focused on men and even fewer have taken into account the cross-cultural dimension. Our study focused on the antecedents of self-objectification paying attention to the role of biological and sociodemographic variables (gender, BMI), psycholo...
There are many ways to regulate emotions. People use both adaptive (e.g., regulation by music) and maladaptive (e.g., regulation by food) strategies to do this. We hypothesized that participants with a high level of food-based regulatory strategies and a low level of music-based regulatory strategies (a group with the least adaptive form of emotion...
The aim of this study has been to analyse whether body shame and age may play a role in appearance-based exercise and positive body image in Women from Poland. It was assumed that women with high body shame and at the stage of young adulthood have significantly greater levels of appearance-based exercise and lower positive body image than those wit...
Studies have shown that nature exposure is associated with more positive body image, but field studies remain relatively infrequent. Here, we examined the impact of a woodland walk on an index of state positive body image (i.e., state body appreciation), as well as dispositional and environmental determinants of body image improvements. Eighty-seve...
Introduction
Research has shown that emotional suppression, a form of emotion regulation, is often used by individuals with disordered eating behaviour. Moreover, eating disorder symptomatology is associated with inappropriate eating behaviours (e.g. excessive consumption of high-calorie foods and comfort foods).
Objectives
The objective of the pr...
Children’s food preferences are closely related to their parents’ food preferences and knowledge of food is linked to what their parents share with them. Parents, however, are not the only people who model such behavior. Paradoxically, the ubiquitous technological development can also pose a huge threat. In developed countries, 94% of teenagers use...
Life satisfaction is one of the most relevant indicators of psychological health. The present study aimed at extending previous research on life satisfaction by examining its antecedents for men and women in five countries (e.g., Italy, Poland, Romania, the UK, and Iran), with different levels of gender equality, according to the Global Gender Gap...
The present study aimed at assessing the predictors (related to the functioning of a parent-child dyad) of child body shame. Therefore, in the main analysis we examined relationships among child body shame, child perfectionism, child body dissatisfaction, parent body shame, parent per-fectionism, and parent body dissatisfaction. In our main hypothe...
Objectives: Parental burnout is a prevalent condition that affects parents’ functioning and health. While various protective factors have been examined, little is known about their interplay. In the current study, we examined the joint effect of two protective factors against parental burnout (one external—social support, and one internal—cognitive...
There is limited evidence of a link between Orthorexia Nervosa (ON) and Obsessive–Compulsive Disorder (OCD), and no definitive conclusions can be drawn. The interplay between socio-cultural context and ON has been poorly investigated as well. Therefore, the objectives of the present study were: (1) to investigate the differences in ON and OCD sympt...
The COVID-19 related lockdown made it much more difficult for people to control their eating behaviours and body weight with the methods and means they had used before. This is reflected in reports that show that eating behaviours deteriorated significantly during the COVID-19 pandemic (including in Poland). Therefore, it is important to determine...
Objective
The aim of our study was to identify body-related predictors (quality of life, negative emotions, body dissatisfaction) of depression during the COVID-19 pandemic while controlling for sex, age and BMI.
Method
Participants (N = 167, Mage = 37.70 years ± 11.37) completed: the Beck Depression Inventory-II, the Body Image Quality of Life In...
Aim. The objective of the present study was to evaluate the relationship between eating patterns, body image and emotional dysregulation among individuals with excessive and normal body weight. Method. A total of 298 participants completed the online survey. The following four questionnaires have been used in the present study: the Body Attitude Te...
We hypothesized that women who are overweight, experiencing COVID-19-related stress, and with high body dissatisfaction would have significantly greater disordered eating than those of healthy weight, without stress, and with low body dissatisfaction. Participants (N = 1354 women; Mage= 31.89 years, SD = 11.14) filled in the Contour Drawing Rating...
Background: Since many aspects of functioning can affect body image, the aim of our study was to assess whether the relationship between body image-related negative emotions or depression and body dissatisfaction was moderated by body image-related quality of life and to compare these analyses among participants with various body mass index during...
Objectives:
The aim of the study was to determine the role of emotional eating and body mass index (BMI) in the relationship between the desire to consume chocolate and avoiding social situations related to food and body exposure in women with normal weight.
Methods:
The direct effect, the indirect effect, the buffer effect, and the moderated me...
We hypothesised that the higher levels of emotion-related predictors (eating motive in the form of affect regulation and COVID-19-related stress) would be associated with higher emotional overeating, after accounting for the effects of demographic variables (gender and BMI) and other eating motives (visual-and attitude-related predictors: liking, p...
The aims of this study were twofold: (1) to investigate the effectiveness of web-based psychoeducation for emotional functioning, eating behaviors, and body image among premenopausal women with excess body weight, and (2) to compare the efficacy of two types of web-based psychoeducation. Three hundred individuals were asked to volunteer in the pres...
To limit the spread of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), many countries have introduced mandated lockdown or social distancing measures. Although these measures may be successful against COVID-19 transmission, the pandemic and attendant restrictions are a source of chronic and severe stress and anxiety which may contribute to the emergence or worse...
Purpose The aim of this study was to evaluate the impact of food-related behaviours (emotional eating, snacking) and emotional functioning (negative emotions, stress, emotional dysregulation) on body mass index in an adult sample. Direct and indirect relationships of the above-mentioned variables were examined.
Methods The total sample comprised 2...
Purpose:
The literature suggests that rumination (i.e., repetitive thinking about 1 or more negative concerns that is perceived as difficult to control) is linked to impaired emotional regulation and increases negative affect. Not only individuals suffering from overweight or obesity, but also healthy individuals might use emotional eating as a co...
The aim of the study was to assess: (1) differences in eating habits among female students and teachers in the context of their profes-sional status, professional activity, place of work, age and declaration that healthy eating is (not) one of their five most important criteria of “being healthy”, (2) the relationship between eating habits, age and...
The purpose of the present study was to provide an empirical verification of the Circle of Discontent with an assessment of its relationship to restrained and uncontrolled eating among children and adolescents. This study examined whether our results confirm a new hypothesized model. The total sample comprised 282 children and adolescents (148 girl...
Purpose
The aim of the current study was to examine the moderating effect of mindful eating on the relationship between emotional functioning and eating styles in overweight and obese women.
Methods
One hundred and eighty four overweight and obese adult women (BMI 30.12 ± 3.77 kg/m²) were assessed with the Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale,...
The aim of this study was to (a) compare children’s perspectives of problematic eating behaviours with those of mothers and (b) check if there are differences in the level of these problematic eating behaviours between girls and boys in different age groups (young children: 8–11 years old vs. adolescents: 12–16 years old). The study involved 203 ch...
Purpose
Although research on vegetarianism is becoming more prevalent, to date, only a few research has been conducted on relationship between vegetarian diet and orthorexia nervosa (ON). The objective of the present study was to examine the orthorexic dietary patterns and eating behaviours among individuals following a vegetarian, vegan, and meat...
Background
Emotional eating is a factor associated with a negative body image and other problematic eating behaviours. In this context little is known about differences between individuals with overweight and obesity and those with normal body weight. The main aim of the study was to evaluate the role of emotional eating in the relationship between...
Aims: The aims of the study were: (1) to evaluate an ideal body stereotype internalization and a sociocultural attitudes towards appearance, (2) to assess the relationship between an ideal body stereotype internalization and a sociocultural attitudes towards appearance, (3) to analyze the predictor of an ideal body stereotype
internalization, (4) t...
Aim of the study
In the present study, we aimed to examine the construct validity of the Three-Factor Eating Questionnaire-R18 (TFEQ-R18) and to investigate variables of the following phenomena such as cognitive restraint, uncontrolled eating and emotional eating in normal weight women and women with obesity.
Subject or material and methods
The re...
Research focused on body image issues has increased since the mid-twentieth century. Distortions in size perception, as well as body dissatisfaction, related to eating disorders, refer to body image disturbance. In this paper, the multidimensional model of eating disorders, the sociocultural model of the development of eating pathology, the 'transd...
Summary
Objective: The objectives of our study were two fold: (1) to assess body attitudes among children and their
parents, and (2) to analyze the predictors of body attitudes in both groups.
Method: The research sample consisted of 37 children, aged between 3 and 7, and 37 parents. We used the
Sociocultural Attitudes Towards Appearance Questionna...
The aim of the study was to evaluate (1) the sociocultural aspect of body image (media pressure and athletic internalization) and body dissatisfaction and (2) the relationship between media pressure, athletic internalization, body mass index and body dissatisfaction among females and males in late adolescence. The study included 34 women and 30 men...
Aims: The aim was twofold: to evaluate eating attitudes, behaviours and knowledge about eating disorders in young women and men, and to assess the relationship between measurable variables in both groups.
Method: The research sample consisted of 34 females and 32 males aged 19–21. The Eating Disorders Examination Questionnaire and the Eating Disor...
Abstract
The aim of the study was (1) to assess the level of emotion and stress among physically active and inactive people
and the relationship between physical activity and the stress level and (2) to assess the level of stress in a group with a alanced
diet.
Method: The study involved 47 women and 45 men. Among the respondents there were physica...
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Projects (4)
Special Issue - Eating Disorders: Challenges, Advances and Public Health Insight
It is my pleasure to inform you that our Special Issue is now open for
submissions online:
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/ijerph/special_issues/EDCAPHI
The Body Image in Nature Survey (BINS) is currently seeking international collaborators who would like to be involved in the project. For more information, please email viren.swami@aru.ac.uk.
The BINS is an international, collaborative project with the primary aim of examining cross-sectional associations between nature exposure and positive body image across different world regions. By involving researchers from multiple sites across the globe, the BINS will produce one of the largest datasets examining the impact of nature exposure across countries. In so doing, the BINS will be able to help determine the extent to which nature exposure is reliably associated with more positive body image. The BINS is led by Prof Viren Swami (Anglia Ruskin University and Perdana University), Prof Stefan Stieger (Karl Landsteiner University of Health Sciences), Prof Ulrich S. Tran and Prof Martin Voracek (University of Vienna). The project commenced in late 2020, with all data collection expected to be completed by December 2021.
Research shows that percentage of obesity among children and adolescents is significantly increasing. The prevalence of obesity has doubled in the last 30 years. Despite the ongoing campaigns and programs of obesity prevention, statistics continue to be very high. It is common knowledge that obesity is associated with a large number of negative somatic and psychic consequences. People with obesity have lower quality life, are more dissatisfied with their body and experience more negative emotions. Among children and adolescents being obese is also connected with a higher risk of stigmatization and verbal violence. Furthermore, many people with excessive body weight during their childhood are obese also as adults which is associated with high costs of treating diseases co-occurring with obesity throughout their life span. What can be done then in a situation in which knowledge about the aetiology and factors crucial for development and persistence of obesity among children and adolescents is relatively small?
"Empirical verification of the Homeostatic Theory of Obesity in children and adolescents: longitudinal study” research project aims to verify the obesity model based on a review of numerous studies. This model focuses on factors significant to the development and persistence of obesity among children and adolescents. The obesity problem is considered holistically – including social, physical and psychological factors. Information on the relationship between these factors not only will broaden the knowledge about obesity, one of diseases of affluence, but also will help to create more effective campaigns and prevention programs for obesity.
