State versus trait weight, shape, and eating concerns: Disentangling influence on eating behaviors among sexual minority women. (March 2021)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Panza, Emily; Olson, KayLoni; Selby, Edward A.; Wing, Rena R.
• Is Part Of: Body image. Volume 36(2021)
• Page Start: 107
• Page End: 116
• Publication Date: 2021-03
• Subjects: Obesity -- Body dissatisfaction -- Sexual minority women -- Ecological momentary assessment; Body image -- Periodicals; Body image -- Research -- Periodicals; Body Image -- Periodicals; 306.4613
• DOI: 10.1016/j.bodyim.2020.10.010
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1740-1445

Abstract

Highlights: Assessing trait and state body image concerns in sexual minority women is novel. Trait and state body image concerns are strongly linked among sexual minority women. Daily body image concerns are robustly linked to dysregulated eating in daily life. Abstract: This study examined the relative influence of trait and state weight, shape, and eating concerns on dysregulated eating in the daily lives of sexual minority women with overweight and obesity. This study is a secondary analysis of data from an Ecological Momentary Assessment (EMA) study of 55 sexual minority women with overweight/obesity. Trait shape, weight, and eating concerns were assessed at baseline. For the following five days, participants used a smartphone to report state weight/shape concerns, overeating, and binge eating five times daily. Women who endorsed higher levels of trait weight, shape, and eating concerns at baseline reported more frequent state weight/shape concerns in daily life. Trait eating concerns were associated with higher odds of binge eating during EMA, but trait weight/shape concerns were unrelated to future dysregulated eating. In daily life, state weight/shape concerns was associated with greater risk for over/binge eating at the concurrent EMA prompt, the subsequent EMA prompt, and over the course of a full day, independent of trait concerns. State weight and shape concerns may play an important role in predicting dysregulated eating in daily life among sexual minority women of higher body weight.