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Personality Types And Attachment Styles Underlying Body Dissatisfaction, Milad Khosravi, David Frederick
Personality Types And Attachment Styles Underlying Body Dissatisfaction, Milad Khosravi, David Frederick
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Attachment style and personality are powerfully related to a person’s patterns of thoughts, interests, and behaviors. Surprisingly, there is little research on the links between these psychological factors and body dissatisfaction. We hypothesized that anxious attachment style and neuroticism would be linked to greater body dissatisfaction in women.
Methods: Adult women reported their overall satisfaction with their weight, muscle tone, and appearance using validated, one-item measures. Participants also completed measures of attachment style and personality type.
Results: Consistent with the hypotheses, people who were more neurotic and with more insecure-attachment styles reported higher body dissatisfaction.
Discussion: This study highlights the …