Background: Many people with eating disorders often report having suffered some kind of childhood trauma. For this reason, many studies have attempted to explore the mediating factors between traumatic experiences and the development of eating disorders. The aim of our study is to conduct a systematic review of published works on the mediating factors between childhood trauma and the development of eating disorders. Method: This review was carried out up to 5 December, 2020, using the databases PsycInfo and PubMed, combining the keywords, and applying a set of inclusion and exclusion criteria. Results: A total of 18 articles were retrieved. After the articles were analyzed, a set of mediating factors between childhood trauma and the development of eating disorders was established, including pathological dissociation, difficulty with emotion self-regulation, body dissatisfaction, negative affect/depression, anxiety, general distress, self-criticism, and alexithymia, among others. Conclusions: In addition to evaluating trauma in eating disorders, these results highlight the importance of paying special attention to the presence of various possible mediating factors, which must be taken into account in the planning of therapeutic treatment. Identifying symptoms of trauma or eating disorders early on could prevent onset of more severe psychopathology during adulthood.

Excess weight has been associated with numerous psychosocial problems and is considered to be one of the most important health problems of today. The aim of this study is to analyze the relationship between weight status, which is evaluated by means of the body mass index (BMI), and the health-related quality of life (HRQoL) and life satisfaction (LS) variables in Spanish adolescents, as well as to examine whether gender influences this interrelationship. A total of 1197 subjects studying in their 1st and 4th years of high school (mean age: 14.4 years, SD: 1.69) participated in the study by completing the Health Behavior in School-Aged Children (HBSC) questionnaire. Then, the participants were grouped into the following categories: underweight, normal weight, overweight, and obese. The results show that boys have significantly higher HRQoL as well as higher levels of LS. On the other hand, only the obese group shows significantly lower scores in both HRQoL and LS than those in the normal-weight group. The interaction of weight category and gender does not have a significant impact on the variables that have been analyzed (HRQoL or LS).

Obesity is one of the most important health problems in the early twenty-first century as it affects millions of people around the world and remains a major cause of mortality. At present there is no clear link between obesity and psychopathology, and whether the possible psychological disorders are a cause or a consequence of obesity has not yet been clarified either. This paper reviews some recent contributions (2007-2010) related to the comorbidity between psychopathology and obesity. It can be concluded from this analysis that certain psychological disorders seem to be more common in obese people, such as depression, anxiety, substance abuse, etc., although the direction of the explanatory relation is not clear; moreover, the opposite result has also been found. The evidence of likely comorbid psychopathology means that the practitioner must consider its assessment in obesity cases, and include a plan for a psychiatric and/or psychological therapeutic intervention.

Introduction: Emerging adulthood has been described as a period of risk for body weight gain. Several studies have indicated that the positive or negative health behaviors established during this stage, tend to prevail the rest of life. However, there are discrepancies in published studies on weight change in freshmen and there are disagreements on weight gain predictors. The present study reviewed the literature with the aim of knowing the eating behaviors associated with weight gain in university students. Method: A systematic search was conducted in three databases according to the PRISMA method during the months of February to November 2020. Results: 20 articles were included in the review. The main behaviors associated with weight gain were the consumption of sugary drinks, alcohol consumption, low consumption of vegetables and fruits, frequent self-consumption, eating unhealthy and low levels of food regulation.

Background: many people with different diagnoses, including eating disorders, have suffered traumatic experiences in childhood. Method: a case-control study was performed. The objective of this study was to evaluate the presence of child trauma and dissociative symptoms in people with eating disorders and compare the results obtained with a control group. Participants were administered the Mini International Neuropsychiatric Interview (MINI) and the Structured Clinical Interview for Personality Disorders (SCID-II) to confirm diagnostic criteria and explore possible comorbidities. Traumatic experiences in childhood were evaluated with the Child Trauma Questionnaire in its abbreviated version (CTQ-SF), psychoform dissociation was measured with the Scale of Dissociative Experiences (DES-II) and somatoform dissociation with the Somatoform Dissociation Scale (SDQ-20). Results: women with eating disorders reported a greater severity and higher prevalence of child trauma than the control group. Significant differences were found by groups in dissociative symptoms. Conclusions: our results, in a Spanish sample, confirm the findings of previous studies.

Nowadays there are many health problems associated with body dissatisfaction experienced by many women, such as eating disorders. Such body dissatisfaction is associated with promoting an aesthetic ideal based on thinness. Mass media seem to play an important role in the dissemination of this aesthetic model. The aim of this paper is to analyze whether, the covers of the best-known beauty magazines fashion in Mexico continue to spread an aesthetic model based on really thin women. Nine most popular magazines in Mexico, and a total of 53 covers were analyzed, they had been published over the six previous months. Covers were rated in several categories related with aesthetic aspects. The results show that 100% of the covers still show the photograph of a woman as a lure, and that 98% of cases she was a thin or a skinny woman. Other data related to body shape and skin type of the model on the cover were also obtained. These results indicate that these magazines continue to spread the aesthetic model of thinness as the reference, and that the models on the covers are distant from the prototype women in Mexico. This could contribute to the development and maintenance of certain health problems, as other international investigations have also pointed out.ResumenEn la actualidad existen numerosos problemas de salud asociados a la insatisfacción corporal que sufren muchas mujeres, como los trastornos del comportamiento alimentario. Dicha insatisfacción corporal se asocia a la promoción de un ideal estético fundamentado en la delgadez. Los medios de comunicación parecen tener un papel importante en la difusión de ese modelo estético. El objetivo de este trabajo es analizar si, en México, las portadas de las revistas de belleza y moda más conocidas, siguen difundiendo un modelo estético basado en la mujer muy delgada. Se analizaron de las nueve revistas más conocidas en México, un total de 53 portadas, publicadas a lo largo de seis meses. Las portadas fueron calificadas en diferentes categorías relacionadas con aspectos estéticos. Los resultados muestran que en un 100% de las portadas se sigue utilizando una fotografía de la mujer como reclamo, y que en el 98% de los casos se refería a una mujer delgada o muy delgada. Igualmente se obtuvieron otros datos referidos a la forma del cuerpo y tipo de piel de la modelo de la portada. Estos resultados señalan que dichas revistas siguen difundiendo el modelo estético de delgadez como referencia y que las modelos utilizadas en las fotografías se alejan de la mujer prototipo en México, lo que podría contribuir, tal y como también han señalado otras investigaciones internacionales, a la aparición y mantenimiento de ciertos problemas de salud