Thainá Richelli Oliveira Resende

Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora

The Preference for Intuition and Deliberation in Food Decision-Making Scale (E-PID) was developed to evaluate both intuitive and deliberative food decision-making within a single instrument. However, its psychometric properties have only been assessed among German-speaking participants. The main aim of the present study was to evaluate evidence of...

Objective Gay and bisexual men are at an increased risk for eating disorders (EDs) and muscle dysmorphia (MD) compared with their heterosexual counterparts. Existing dissonance‐based (DB) EDs prevention programs for this population have been evaluated in the United States; however, these programs have not been evaluated in the Brazilian context. Th...

Measures of beliefs and attitudes toward food have generally been limited to the measurement of more pathological eating attitudes (e.g., disordered eating). The Food Life Questionnaire (FLQ) and its short form (FLQ-SF) were developed to examine attitudes toward a broader range of foods; however, the factor structure of the FLQ-SF was not confirmed...

O presente estudo realizou a tradução e avaliação da validade e confiabilidade da Male Body Attitudes Scale (MBAS) para homens brasileiros. Foram realizadas as etapas de tradução, síntese de tradução, retrotradução, comitê de especialistas e pré-teste. Logo após, a versão brasileira da MBAS foi aplicada em uma amostra de 454 homens universitários,...

Wheelchair dancing (DCR) is an activity practised mainly by people with physical disabilities. In Brazil, it is an emerging activity lacking investigation and systematisation. Thus, the objective of the present study was, through a narrative review of the literature, to identify, analyse and systematise the existing studies about the effects of DCR...

Objective: to compare the variables (dependents) of sociocultural pressures related to appearance, appearance-ideal internalization, and body weight and shape dissatisfaction, controlled by body mass index (BMI), in Brazilian female Cheerleading athletes in flyer and base positions. Methods: A descriptive-comparative, cross-sectional study was used...

Purpose Investigate the efficacy of a dissonance-based (DB) intervention (i.e., the Body Project), during which some examples of intuitive eating were provided by peer leaders, in improving intuitive eating and targeting risk and protective factors for eating disorders (ED) among Brazilian women with body dissatisfaction. Methods Participants were...

Few self-report assessments have been validated for Brazilian men that address multiple dimensions of body dissatisfaction. Thus, the present study sought to validate the Male Body Attitudes Scale—Revised (MBAS-R) in Brazilian young men. A two-step approach was used in a sample of 644 Brazilian men, aged 18–35 years, to validate the MBAS-R using ex...