Integración de los factores de riesgo de predisposición y aprendizaje psicosocial para la bulimia nerviosa

Translated title of the contribution: Integrating dispositional and psychosocial learning risk factors for bulimia nervosa

Gregory T. Smith, Melíssa Cyders, Sarah Fischer, Jean Simmons

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Abstract

We propose a risk model for bulimia nervosa (BN) that has these characteristics. Trait urgency, the tendency to act rashly/maladaptively when distressed, is a dispositional risk factor that is general to many disorders, including BN. Expectancies for reinforcement from eating and from dieting/thinness are risk factors that result from psychosocial learning and are specific to eating disorders. Risk for BN is increased to the degree that one is high in negative affectivity, high in urgency, and simultaneously holds expectancies for reinforcement from eating and from dieting/thinness. We provide empirical support for both the dispositional and learned components of this model. We demonstrate how the model integrates and extends existing risk literature and we briefly consider the role of culture in this process.

Translated title of the contributionIntegrating dispositional and psychosocial learning risk factors for bulimia nervosa
Original languageSpanish
Pages (from-to)463-489
Number of pages27
JournalPsicologia Conductual
Volume12
Issue number3
StatePublished - 2004

Keywords

  • Bulimia nervosa
  • Personality
  • Psychosocial learning
  • Risk factors

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
  • Clinical Psychology

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