ABSTRACT
Objectives
Understanding the role of coping strategies in the relationship between body dissatisfaction and maladaptive eating behaviors in adolescents may play a key role in ensuring treatment sustainability and improving body image. This study aims to evaluate the mediating role of coping strategies in the relationship between body dissatisfaction and maladaptive eating behaviors of individuals aged 15-17.
Materials and Methods
Four hundred and six adolescents between the ages of 15-17 living in İstanbul participated in the study. The research was designed as a quantitative study and used the relational screening method. The participants were administered a socio-demographic information form, the Body Value Scale-2, the Dutch Eating Behavior Questionnaire, and the Coping Scale for Adolescents.
Results
The findings show that body satisfaction in adolescents has indirect effects on maladaptive eating behavior through avoidant and negative coping styles. The mediating role of coping styles in this relationship is significant and is understood to be an important factor in explaining maladaptive eating behavior, and the indirect effect was found to have a full mediating role.
Conclusion
It has been shown that low body satisfaction levels in adolescents increase the use of avoidant and negative coping strategies and that these strategies trigger maladaptive eating behaviors. These results indicate that body perception plays a critical role in the psychosocial development of adolescents and that maladaptive eating behaviors are more common in adolescents with high body dissatisfaction. In order to better understand the relationship between body dissatisfaction in adolescents, maladaptive eating behaviors, coping strategies and each other, comprehensive studies with larger samples are needed.
Keywords:
Adolescence, body dissatisfaction, maladaptive eating behaviors, coping strategies
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