Neuropsychological Correlates of Body Image Disturbance

 
 
 
 

Neuropsychological Correlates of Body Image Disturbance

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Title: Neuropsychological Correlates of Body Image Disturbance
Author: Stanek, Kelly Marie
Description: Body image disturbance (BID) is a significant concern for many young women, even those without eating disorders. The symptomatology of BID provides for numerous intuitive links between specific cognitive dysfunction and body-related cognitive, perceptual, and behavioral disturbances. However, few studies have addressed possible neuropsychological correlates of BID in non-clinical samples. The current study examined body dissatisfaction, body checking, body size misperception, and neuropsychological test performance in 100 female undergraduates without eating pathology. Several conceptually indicated bivariate associations emerged between BID components and neuropsychological test performance. However, only body checking was significantly associated with poorer performance, specifically slower information processing speed, after controlling for age, body composition, and depressive and obsessive-compulsive symptomatology. Unexpectedly, perceptual BID was not independently associated with any cognitive functions, including visual-spatial deficiencies. Furthermore, although attitudinal and behavioral components of BID were strongly correlated, perceptual BID was not associated with either behavioral or attitudinal BID in the current sample, suggesting that the perceptual disturbances of BID may function independently of cognitive, affective, and behavioral disturbances. The findings of the present study were interpreted within the framework of possible shared underlying etiological mechanisms that may account for shared variation of cognitive dysfunction in BID, depression, and OCD.
Permanent Link: http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1239059135
http://hdl.handle.net/2374.OX/108007
Date: 2009

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