Frontier mental health research: psychedelics & drug studies

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2 papers

Social media and body dissatisfaction in young adults: An experimental investigation of the effects of different image content and influencing constructs

Castellanos Silva, Raquel, Steins, Gisela
www.frontiersin.org Summary & key facts 2023 34 citations

This is a teaching manual (December 2020) about how to do mediation and moderation analyses with SPSS and the free PROCESS macro. It explains the basic models, the regression equations used to estimate effects, the assumptions needed for causal claims, and common tests for indirect effects (like Sobel and bootstrap).…

Body Image and Dysmorphia Studies Consumer Behavior in Brand Consumption and Identification Eating Disorders and Behaviors

Interoceptive hunger, eating attitudes and beliefs

Richard J. Stevenson, Brayson J. Hill, Alannah Hughes, Madeline Wright, Johanna Bartlett, Supreet Saluja, et al.
Frontiers in Psychology Summary & key facts 2023 21 citations

Researchers surveyed mainly young university students about how hunger feels just before a main meal and then retested many about 1 month later. They found hunger sensations fit 11 different dimensions, that people differ in which sensations they report, and that those reports were stable over time. Although there was…

Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes Body Image and Dysmorphia Studies Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
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