Trastornos de la conducta alimentaria, experiencias adversas vitales e imagen corporal: Una revisión sistemática.

Our objective was to clarify the relationship between adverse life events and the altered body image in eating disorders. We reviewed English and Spanish papers indexed in MEDLINE, PsycINFO and ScienceDirect from the last 10 years. We included 16 studies of which 37.5% focus on eating disorders. Sexual abuse, physical abuse, domestic violence, bullying and having experienced multiples adverse life events have been associated with overweight patients and high body dissatisfaction. Emotional abuse has been associated with underweight and body shape concerns. Posttraumatic symptoms and emotion dysregulation have been identified as mediating factors. Eating disorder psychopathology could be the response to a bad regulation of negative emotion coming from different adverse life events and this mechanism could underlie patiens' body dissatisfaction. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]