Risk and resiliency factors related to body dissatisfaction and disordered eating: The identity disruption model.
Lenny R VartanianLydia E HaywardJoshua M SmythSusan J PaxtonStephen W TouyzPublished in: The International journal of eating disorders (2018)
These findings provide initial conceptual support for the identity disruption model and extend previous models of body dissatisfaction and disordered eating to include processes that occur earlier in life. This model opens up the possibility for new interventions that are targeted toward those who are most vulnerable to developing body dissatisfaction and disordered eating.