How mindfulness influences restrictive eating through the mediation of body image: a diary report study.
Frontiers in psychology January 1, 2025 Kequn Chu, Jing Ge, Huan Fan et al. 2 citations
Among 65 women with restrictive eating patterns, both stable (trait) and daily (state) mindfulness were linked to less restrictive eating, and this effect was explained by improvements in body image. Daily increases in mindfulness predicted better body image, which in turn predicted less restrictive eating that same day, indicating that body image fully mediates the state-mindfulness-to-eating pathway. Trait and state mindfulness and body image were positively related to each other and inversely related to restrictive eating. The findings suggest that mindfulness-based interventions may reduce maladaptive eating by first improving body image.