{"id":2927,"date":"2025-02-11T15:13:41","date_gmt":"2025-02-11T13:13:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ucy.ac.cy\/acthealthy\/?page_id=2927"},"modified":"2026-02-07T12:39:48","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T10:39:48","slug":"prevention-of-eating-disorders-and-acceptme-program","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ucy.ac.cy\/acthealthy\/research\/completed-research\/prevention-of-eating-disorders-and-acceptme-program\/?lang=en","title":{"rendered":"Eating Disorders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>PhD Thesis Title: Eating Disorder Risk: The Role of Sensitivity to Negative Affect and Body- <\/strong><strong>Image Inflexibility<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">This PhD thesis examined psycho-physiological reactivity (heart rate, skin conductance) and emotion regulation as mechanisms underlying eating disorder (ED) risk. Using cross-sectional screening and an experimental design, adolescents and young adults (14\u201324 years) were classified as high or low risk for EDs. Emotional responses to general and ED-specific film stimuli were assessed using self-report, physiological, and behavioral measures. Self-report measures targeting cognitive content (appearance schemata and self-worth beliefs) and functional processes (body- image inflexibility) were also examined in relation to physiological and behavioral outcomes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Findings showed that high-risk individuals exhibited heightened physiological reactivity across both general and pathology-specific contexts, alongside reduced awareness of their physiological responses, indicating emotion regulation difficulties associated with ED risk. Moreover, elevated physiological arousal and greater body-image inflexibility emerged as the strongest factors increasing the likelihood of ED risk.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Koushiou, M., Nikolaou, P., &amp; Karekla, M. (2020). Prevalence and correlates of eating disorders in greek cypriot adolescents and young adults. The European Journal of Counselling Psychology, 8(1), 3-18.<br \/>\nKoushiou, M., Merwin, R. M., Anderson, D., &amp; Karekla, M. (2019). An investigation of the affective experience of females at high risk for eating disorders in general and pathology-specific contexts. Appetite, 141, 104306.<br \/>\nKoushiou, M., Nicolaou, K., &amp; Karekla, M. (2018). Inducing negative affect using film clips with general and eating disorder-related content. Eating and Weight Disorders-Studies on Anorexia, Bulimia and Obesity, 23(6), 775-784.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PhD Thesis Title: Eating Disorder Risk: The Role of Sensitivity to Negative Affect and Body- Image Inflexibility This PhD thesis examined psycho-physiological reactivity (heart rate, skin<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"parent":3104,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2927","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-12 13:25:57","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"translation_priority","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ucy.ac.cy\/acthealthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ucy.ac.cy\/acthealthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ucy.ac.cy\/acthealthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ucy.ac.cy\/acthealthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ucy.ac.cy\/acthealthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2927"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ucy.ac.cy\/acthealthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3241,"href":"https:\/\/www.ucy.ac.cy\/acthealthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2927\/revisions\/3241"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ucy.ac.cy\/acthealthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ucy.ac.cy\/acthealthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}