Publications by authors named "Maria Bazo Perez"
Measurement invariance of the Intuitive Eating Scale-2 across country, ethnicity, sex, and sexual orientation: A cross-cultural study between Brazil and the U.S.
Eat Behav
August 2024
Intuitive eating is defined as being connected to internal hunger, satiety, and appetitive cues and flexibly using these cues to determine when, what, and how much to eat. The Intuitive Eating Scale-2 (IES-2) is a widely used measure of facets of intuitive eating. However, the scale has shown unstable factor structure in several validation studies and there is a lack of studies investigating the measurement invariance of the IES-2 beyond sex.
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- Eating disorders (EDs) are becoming a significant global health issue, and this study explores how psychological traits, like perfectionism and anxiety sensitivity, alongside sociocultural factors like body dissatisfaction, impact the risk and resilience associated with EDs.
- The research involved 698 undergraduate students who completed an online survey measuring their perfectionism, emotion regulation, anxiety sensitivity, body image issues, and eating behaviors.
- Results indicated that certain psychological factors, such as self-oriented perfectionism and emotional dysregulation, increased the likelihood of disordered eating behaviors, while other traits, like emotional clarity, offered protective effects, highlighting the complexity of risk and resilience pathways related to eating disorders.
Background: Anxiety and eating disorders (EDs) are rising at alarming rates. These mental health disorders are often comorbid, yet the factors associated with their comorbidity are not well understood. The present study examined a theoretical model of the pathways and relative associations of anxiety sensitivity (AS) with different dimensions of ED risk, controlling for generalized anxiety.
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