ARTICLE
Models of eating disorders: a theoretical
investigation of abnormal eating patterns
and body image disturbance
More details
Hide details
1
SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities
2
Interdisciplinary Doctoral Studies at the SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Faculty in Wrocław, Poland
Submission date: 2016-09-30
Final revision date: 2017-01-08
Acceptance date: 2017-01-11
Publication date: 2017-03-01
Corresponding author
Anna Brytek-Matera
SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities, ul. Techników 9, 40-326 Katowice, Poland
Arch Psych Psych 2017;19(1):16-26
KEYWORDS
TOPICS
ABSTRACT
Research focused on body image issues has increased since the mid-twentieth century. Distortions in size perception, as well as body dissatisfaction, related to eating disorders, refer to body image disturbance. In this paper, the multidimensional model of eating disorders, the sociocultural model of the development of eating pathology, the ‘transdiagnostic’ theory and treatment of eating disorders, and the reward-centred model for the development and maintenance of anorexia nervosa have been described. In the first three models, body dissatisfaction has been found to play a relevant role. The fourth is presented as a transtheoretical model of eating disorders, which was created based on a review of previous studies.