Self-Objectification, Disordered Eating and Sexual Orientation in Men.

The interplay between disordered eating, depressive symptoms and self-objectification differs between genders and sexual orientations, and merits further study in homosexual and heterosexual men. We examined disordered eating, depressive symptoms and self-objectification in a sample of Israeli heterosexual and homosexual men. Participants were 215 men aged 19-65, 108 of whom were classified by the Kinsey scale as being heterosexual and 107 as homosexual.

Relational attitudes in adolescent girls with and without a diagnosis of anorexia nervosa or atypical anorexia nervosa.

Background: People with eating disorders experience interpersonal difficulties, but little research explores relational attitudes in this population. We examined sense of relational entitlement towards parents, pathological concern, and psychological distress in adolescent girls with and without anorexia nervosa (AN) or atypical anorexia nervosa (AAN).

Methods: Questionnaires assessing sense of entitlement towards parents, pathological concern, and symptoms of depression and anxiety were completed by 85 girls with and 100 girls without AN/AAN (mean age 15.

Too healthy for their own good: orthorexia nervosa and compulsive exercise in the community.

Background: The similarities and differences between orthorexia nervosa symptoms (ONs) and the symptoms and correlates of eating disorders listed in the DSM-5 need to be elucidated. ONs were examined in a volunteer community sample in conjunction with compulsive exercise, disordered eating, as well as emotional and behavioral correlates of eating disorders.

Methods: Participants were 561 adult volunteers (93 men, 17.

The psychometric properties of the Varieties of Inner Speech Questionnaire-Revised in Hebrew.

Introduction: The (VISQ-R) is a self-report questionnaire designed to measure characteristics of inner speech. In the current study, we adapted and validated a Hebrew version of VISQ-R. Our first hypothesis was that Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) of the Hebrew VISQ-R would confirm the five subscales replicating the factor structure of the original questionnaire.

Dropout from Mental Health Treatment Among Asylum-Seekers in Israel: A Retrospective Chart Study.

Dropout from psychiatric treatment and psychotherapy is common among asylum-seekers, even though they are at increased risk of emotional distress and psychiatric disorders. We aimed to define the associations between demographic and clinical variables and dropout among asylum-seekers in Israel. In this retrospective chart review we initially examined 271 files from Gesher (Bridge, in Hebrew), a government psychiatric clinic for asylum-seekers.

Sense of Relationship Entitlement of Aging Parents Toward Their Offspring (SRE-ao)-A New Concept and Measurement Tool.

Our sense of entitlement influences our interactions and attitudes in a range of specific relational contexts, one of them being aging parents' relationships with their adult children. This study aimed to examine the factor structure of the Sense of Relational Entitlement-aging parents toward their offspring (SRE-ao), an 11-item questionnaire that assesses aging people's sense of relational entitlement toward their children, and examine the associations of its subscales with related personality and mental health constructs. One thousand and six participants (24.

Associations of self-repression with disordered eating and symptoms of other psychopathologies for men and women.

Background: Disordered eating has been found to be associated with constructs involving self-repression, such as selflessness (the tendency to relinquish one's needs for others'), and concern for appropriateness (an alertness to information about social comparison and tendency to vary one's behavior in different social situations). This study aimed to examine associations between these self-repression variables and symptoms of general psychopathology for women and men in a community sample.

Methods: Two hundred and thirty-six participants (92 men) aged 18-76 (M = 29.

Trauma, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, and Mental Health Care of Asylum Seekers.

Asylum seekers in Israel from East Africa frequently experienced traumatic events along their journey, particularly in the Sinai Peninsula, where they were subjected to trafficking and torture. Exposure to trauma has implications for rights that are contingent on refugee status. This retrospective chart review aimed to characterize the types of traumas experienced by 219 asylum seekers (149 men) from Eritrea and Sudan who sought treatment at a specialized mental health clinic in Israel, and to compare the mental health of trauma victims ( = 168) with that of non-trauma victims ( = 53).

Food Attention Bias: appetite comes with eating.

Objective: Cognitive interventions may be effective in weight loss. The purpose of this study was to assess if cognitive reappraisal (CR; reframing the meaning of a stimulus in order to change the resulting emotional response), can reduce food attentional bias (FAB) using the Visual Dot Probe (VDP) paradigm.

Method: 126 participants (age 27 ± 5.

Refining the Assessment of Entitlement in Romantic Relationships: The Sense of Relational Entitlement Scale-Revised (SRE-R).

A subjective sense of entitlement is strongly evoked in the context of romantic relationships. A pathological sense of entitlement results from believing a partner should fulfill all one's needs and wishes (inflated) or that the expression of genuine needs is illegitimate (restricted). This study aimed to validate a revised, improved version of the Sense of Relational Entitlement scale entitled the Sense of Relational Entitlement scale-Revised (SRE-R).

Eating for numbing: a community-based study of trauma exposure, emotion dysregulation, dissociation, body dissatisfaction and eating disorder symptoms.

Objective: The current study tests the relationship between eating disorder (ED) symptoms and trauma exposure. The mechanisms which trauma is related to ED symptoms have not been sufficiently examined. This study examines the complex role of dissociation and emotional dysregulation in the context of trauma, BMI, ED symptoms and body dissatisfaction (BD).

Intergenerational Transmission of Child Feeding Practices.

This study assessed the relationships between parents' retrospective recollections of their mothers' child feeding practices (CFP), current disordered eating (DE) and current CFP (how they now feed their children). 174 Israeli parents (136 mothers, 38 fathers; 40.1 ± 6.

Associations between pathological eating, relational attitudes and satisfaction in romantic relationships.

Objective: Women with disordered eating report low satisfaction from romantic relationships. We wished to examine whether this may be explained in part by a restricted or inflated sense of relational entitlement, pathological concern and low authenticity levels.

Method: A community sample of 170 women aged 18-60 (M = 24.

Eating Disorder Examination Questionnaire (EDE-Q-13): expanding on the short form.

Objective: The Eating Disorders Examination-Questionnaire (EDE-Q) is widely used but time-consuming to complete. In recent years, the advantages and disadvantages of several brief versions have therefore been investigated. A seven-item scale (EDE-Q-7) has excellent psychometric properties but excludes items on bingeing and purging.

The Eating Disorders Recovery Questionnaire: psychometric properties and validity.

Purpose: There is no standardized measurement of recovery from an eating disorder (ED). We examined the psychometric properties and construct validity of the "Eating Disorders Recovery Questionnaire" (EDRQ), which defines recovery beyond symptoms to include self-acceptance, social emotional and physical health.

Methods: Twenty-eight recovery-related items were administered to 978 people (9.

Two to Tango? The Dance of Maternal Authority and Feeding Practices with Child Eating Behavior.

The purpose of this study was to elucidate the relationship between maternal feeding practices and children's eating problems. Mothers of 292 children aged 5.9 ± 1.

A longitudinal study of maternal feeding and children's picky eating.

This study aimed to estimate the rate of persistent picky eating (PE) in children 3-8 years of age, and to characterize children with PE and their mothers. From a base sample of 1055 mothers of children 3.4 ± 1.

Weight gain, feeding and eating in the first year of life of babies of smoking and non-smoking mothers.

Babies of mothers who smoke during pregnancy tend to be born underweight but are at risk for pediatric obesity. Maternal feeding practices, maternal disordered eating, and child temperament were assessed as potential mediators of early weight gain in babies of smoking and non-smoking mothers. The BMIs of babies of 88 smoking and 107 non-smoking mothers were recorded at birth and reported one year later.

Attachment, Sense of Entitlement in Romantic Relationships, and Sexual Revictimization Among Adult CSA Survivors.

Insecure attachment orientations are disproportionately frequent in child sexual abuse (CSA) survivors and have been found to mediate some of the effects of CSA on adult interpersonal and romantic difficulties, including sexual revictimization (SR). A sense of relational entitlement (SRE) has received growing attention in psychological discourse and research in recent years. It reflects both adaptive (assertive) and pathological (restricted or inflated) attitudes to the assertion of needs and rights and has not been studied in adult CSA survivors.

Can Recovery From an Eating Disorder Be Measured? Toward a Standardized Questionnaire.

There is a clear need for a standardized definition of recovery from eating disorders (EDs) and for self-report instruments to assess where individuals with an ED are situated at a given point of time along their process of illness and recovery. It has been acknowledged that psychological and cognitive symptoms are important to recovery in addition to physical and behavioral indices. This study proposes a 28-item multidimensional questionnaire encompassing the main features of recovery from ED, derived from the endorsement of different criteria by people with a lifetime ED diagnosis, family members and ED clinicians.