Further validation of the visceral sensitivity index: Psychometric properties and utility for predicting disordered eating in a diverse university sample.

Gastrointestinal (GI) visceral sensitivity (i.e., anxiety/worry over GI sensations) may be a key maintaining factor for disordered eating; however, it is unknown whether GI visceral sensitivity predicts the range of disordered eating behaviors in nonclinical samples.

Visceral sensitivity, hunger responsiveness, and satiety responsiveness: Associations between facets of gastrointestinal interoception and disordered eating profiles in an undergraduate sample.

This preregistered study examined associations between empirically derived profiles of disordered eating in a diverse nonclinical sample and three facets of gastrointestinal (GI) interoception (visceral sensitivity, hunger responsiveness, satiety responsiveness). University students (n = 591; 53.3% women; 23.

Examination of the two-step water load test as a measure of gastric interoception and associations with eating and weight/shape concerns in a nonclinical sample.

Objective: The current study extended research examining the validity of the two-step Water Load Test (WLT-II), an objective, laboratory-based measure of gastric interoception, by investigating the validity of the WLT-II in a nonclinical sample and testing its contribution to the prediction of eating and weight/shape concerns.

Methods: Participants (n = 129, 73.6% cisgender female, M = 20.

Women's disordered eating and sexual function: the role of interoception.

Background: Among women, disordered eating and sexual difficulties commonly co-occur.

Aim: We investigated whether interoceptive dysfunction (ie, altered processing of body cues) may be a common cause (ie, third variable) contributing to these concomitant outcomes above and beyond body mass index (BMI) and body image concerns.

Methods: Women (n = 1201; mean age = 25.

General versus hunger/satiety-specific interoceptive sensibility in predicting disordered eating.

Dysfunctional interoceptive processing of hunger and satiety cues is particularly relevant to disordered eating behaviors. However, researchers often rely on general measures of interoceptive sensibility (IS; self-reported experience of internal bodily cues) which conflate interoceptive processes across biological systems (e.g.