Body-specific Co-rumination: Relationship with Anxiety, Self-esteem, and Body Dissatisfaction in College Women

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  • February 26, 2019
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  • Doyle, Kaitlin
    • Affiliation: College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Psychology and Neuroscience
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  • Body-specific co-rumination, or excessively discussing body-related problems with a best friend, is a new and unstudied construct that is theorized to be related to negative outcomes with three dependent variables: anxiety, self-esteem, and body dissatisfaction. Interaction models were used to assess whether appearance-contingent self-worth and social comparison were moderators of the relation between body-specific co-rumination and the three dependent variables. Participants were 441 college-aged women who completed an online survey. Results indicate that body-specific co-rumination is associated with anxiety (positively), self-esteem (negatively), and body dissatisfaction (positively). The moderator model with appearance-contingent self-worth was not supported; however, the interaction of body-specific co-rumination and social comparison was significant in identifying levels of anxiety and body dissatisfaction. Women who reported high levels of body-specific co-rumination and social comparison endorsed the highest levels of anxiety and body dissatisfaction. These findings support previous research that general co-rumination is an anxiety-producing experience and add to the growing body of research on co-rumination. Future directions and clinical implications are discussed.
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  • Bardone-Cone, Anna
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  • Bachelor of Arts
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  • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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