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Debriefing sheet
Title of project: Body image disordered eating and emotional processing in adolescent females.
Helen Eracleous
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Thank you very much for making this study possible!
This study is investigating how adolescence deal with their emotions. It seeks to find out
whether they engage in certain ways of dealing with emotions and whether these are
related to disordered eating and or body image satisfaction.
Eating disorders is a problem that can often begin with disordered eating such as
unhealthy dieting e.g. severe caloric restriction and the use of meal supplements for
weight loss, consumption of large quantities of high fat foods or skipping meals, or
anorexic and bulimic behaviours. These behaviours have been associated with a negative
body image.
This study is interested in whether certain types of emotional processing, for example,
suppressing emotions can make disordered eating more likely. If this is the case this
would help clinical psychologists and other healthcare professionals to improve the
treatment and prevention of eating disorders.
Title of project: Body image disordered eating and emotional processing in adolescent females.
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