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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"muscle dysmorphia"”.
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Potential Antecedents of Muscle Dysmorphia
… to some of the possible contributing factors of muscle dysmorphia. Muscle dysmorphia is an under recognized form of Body Dysmorphic Disorder. Individuals who are diagnosed with muscle dysmorphia are in reality very large and muscular, but they have a profound fear and belief that they are small …
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Creating an Assessment Tool for Muscle Dysmorphia
… of body image issues with men. In particular, Muscle Dysmorphia (MD) is a disorder that has received attention in the last decade (Pope, Gruber, Choi, Olivardia, & Phillips, 1997; Olivardia, 2001). Many of the symptoms found in eating disorders and body dysmorphic disorder are similar to those …
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Objective Measures and Insight Assessments of Muscle Dysmorphia
<p>Muscle dysmorphia is a relatively new psychological disorder primarily affecting males who engage in weightlifting or bodybuilding. Individuals with this disorder are obsessed with the idea that their body is not sufficiently lean or muscular when compared to others and engage in several, risky …
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Evaluating the Reliability and Validity of the Muscle Dysmorphia Inventory
… <i>reverse anorexia</i> or <i>bigorexia</i>, Muscle Dysmorphia (MD) has gained the attention of researchers for about a decade (Grieve, 2007; Pope, Katz & Hudson, 1993; Pope, Gruber, Choi, Olivardia & Phillips, 1997).<br> The Muscle Dysmorphia Inventory (MDI) was created to measure the …
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Examining the Relationship between Body Work and Muscle Dysmorphia Symptoms
… investigate whether men with a large amount of Muscle Dysmorphia symptoms had a more favorable outlook and opinion of body work. Participants in the current study were a convenience sample of men recruited from undergraduate classes at Western Kentucky University and the community of Bowling …
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Facets of Narcissism in Relation to Muscle Dysmorphia and Eating Disorder Symptomotology
… research exploring the relationship between muscle dysmorphia, drive for muscularity, and disordered eating behaviors in relation to personality characteristics, particularly narcissism, has yielded interesting, though often conflictual, results. The current study attempts to further explore …
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Similarities Between Etiological Models of Eating Disorder Symptomatology and Muscle Dysmorphia Symptomatology
<p>Muscle Dysmorphia (MD) has recently been conceptualized as the male form of Eating Disorders (ED), although it is not currently classified as an ED. The current study compares etiological models of MD symptomatology (based on Grieve's [2007] conceptual model of MD) and ED symptomatology (based …
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The Effects of Picture Presentation on Male Body Shame and Muscle Dysmorphia
… influenced men’s experienced body shame or Muscle Dysmorphia symptomatology, and whether there was a relationship between body shame and Muscle Dysmorphia. Participants were 112 men attending Western Kentucky University. Participants completed the Body Shame Questionnaire and Muscle …
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Examining the Relationship between Criticism and Muscle Dysmorphia Symptomotology in Collegiate Men
… about their bodies and their current level of Muscle Dysmorphia (MD) symptomotology. Participants (N = 118) were recruited via study board from a mid-Western university with a population of 20,674 students. The hypothesis of the current study was that men who can recall critical comments about …
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An Examination of the Role of Anxiety and Obsessive-Compulsive Features in Muscle Dysmorphia Symptomatology
Although Muscle Dsymorphia (MD) has received more attention in recent years, it still lacks an official classification. The current study incorporates trait anxiety and obsessive-compulsive features into an etiological model of MD in the hopes of establishing them as reliable predictors of such MD …
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Exercise Can Be Bad For Your Health? Models Of Obligatory Exercise In Males And Females
… attitudes towards appearance, magical thinking, muscle dysmorphia, and eating disorder symptoms in models of obligatory exercise for males and females. The results indicated that several different developmental trajectories exist that vary from person to person. Several of the models proposed …
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Actual and Ideal Self Discrepancy and Body Satisfaction
… such way that pressure is manifested is through muscle dysmorphia, and a potential influence on muscle dysmorphia is self-concept. Self-concept may interact with muscle dysmorphia through the changes that people want to make about themselves. Within self-concept people may want to change a great …
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Interaction between body talk in romantic relationships and body dissatisfaction on unhealthy body change behaviors
… behaviors, such as eating disorder symptoms and muscle dysmorphia symptoms, can cause serious harm in individuals’ lives, impacting physical and emotional health. Body change behaviors have been shown to be associated with body dissatisfaction and body talk. However, individuals’ body talk with …