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202201.12 Relationship between recognition toward self-body and eating disorder characteristics (Article Publication) Posted in RESEARCH
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It is well known that people with eating disorders tend to think they are overweight. Why they think so even though they are not? Previous studies suggested that there are two factors causing this body image disturbance, however,@the relationships between these two factors and eating disorders characteristics have been remained unclear. Our research recruiting healthy young women showed that these two factors were correlated with different eating disorder characteristics, respectively. The results were published in PLoS ONE (Hamamoto).
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0262513