The Personal Meaning of Eating Disorder Symptoms

An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis

Bibliographic Data

ID4227632
AuthorsAndrew P Fox (University of Birmingham, UK & Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust, UK,), Andrew Fox (0000-0001-6719-8902), Michael Larkin (0000-0003-3304-7000, University of Birmingham), Newman Leung (University of Birmingham, UK & Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust, UK)
Year2011
Volume16
Issue1
Pages116-125
Publication date2011-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Health Psychology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1359-1053 • E-ISSN: 1461-7277
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1359105310368449
PMID20733015
OpenAlexW2082417519
LanguageEN
Citations received7
References cited21

The current study aimed to explore the personal meaning of eating difficulties. Eight women with a variety of eating issues were interviewed. These conversations were then analysed using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis to construct a framework for understanding the personal world of the interviewees. Three overarching themes identified in participants' accounts of their experiences are reported here: the experience of the eating difficulties as functional; negative effects of having eating difficulties; ambivalence towards the eating difficulties. These themes add to our knowledge of the potential role of personal experiences in the aetiology and maintenance of eating difficulties

Developmental psychology · Eating disorders · Meaning (existential · Psychiatry · Psychotherapist · Eating Disorders and Behaviors · Humor Studies and Applications · Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders · Psychology · Clinical Psychology

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