Associations among weight suppression, self-acceptance, negative body image, and eating disorder behaviors among women with eating disorder symptoms.

The present study aimed to clarify existing research that has inconsistently shown that weight suppression (differences between individuals' highest and current body weights) is associated with worse eating disorder (ED) behaviors and negative body image among women with lifetime EDs, by examining whether an understudied client-supported protective factor for ED pathology - self-acceptance - moderates these associations. Currently symptomatic women with lifetime EDs ( = 108) completed measures assessing self-acceptance and ED symptoms via an online survey. Moderated regressions examined whether self-acceptance moderated associations between weight suppression and both body image (weight/shape preoccupation, overvaluation, dissatisfaction) and ED behavior (dietary restraint, compensatory behaviors, binge eating) outcomes.

Disparities in psychological well-being based on subjective and objective eating disorder recovery statuses, and recovery status concordance.

This research examines how eudaimonic psychological well-being (PWB) relates to variant levels of eating disorder (ED) recovery (full, partial, active ED), both self-defined and objectively determined, and to subjective-objective recovery status concordance. Participants (N = 132; Mage = 30.1) completed an online survey targeting ED symptomology, PWB, and recovery.

The impact of humorous media on attitudes toward persons with disabilities.

Purpose: To examine the relationship between disability-related humor and attitudes toward persons with disabilities in business students (i.e. "future employers").

Substance abuse and psychosocial adaptation to physical disability: analysis of the literature and future directions.

Purpose: To analyse the current state of the literature with respect to substance abuse and psychosocial adjustment in persons with disabilities.

Method: The two primary databases containing the literature related to rehabilitation and disability issues (PsychINFO and MedLine) were searched to identify articles addressing the psychosocial impact of substance abuse in persons with disabilities. Eleven empirical articles specifically measuring the strength of the relationship between substance use and psychosocial outcomes in persons with disabilities were selected for analysis.