The current project aims to examine the concept of promoting attention toward body functionality and gratitude using a weekly functionality-based mirror exposure and body functionality gratitude "journaling" text prompts three days a week for three weeks to examine whether this helps foster positive body image and decrease eating disorder symptoms in a sample of undergraduate females, a population at particularly high risk of body image dissatisfaction and consequent eating disorder development.
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Change in Multidimensional Body Self-Relations Questionnaire scores (MBSRQ; Cash, 2000)
Timeframe: Change from Baseline MBSRQ scores to 20 weeks
Change in Eating Disorder Diagnostic Scale scores (EDDS; Stice, Fisher & Martinez, 2004)
Timeframe: Change from baseline EDDS scores to 20 weeks
Change in Body Checking Questionnaire scores (BCQ; Reas, Whisenhunt, Netemeyer, & Williamson, 2002)
Timeframe: Change from baseline BCQ scores to 20 weeks
Change in Body Image Avoidance Questionnaire scores (BIAQ; Rosen, Srebnik, Saltzberg, & Wendt, 1991)
Timeframe: Change from baseline BIAQ scores to 20 weeks
Change in Body Appreciation Scale-2 scores (BAS-2; Tylka, & Wood-Barcalow, 2015)
Timeframe: Change from baseline BAS-2 scores to 20 weeks
Change in Functional Appreciation Scale scores (FAS; Alleva, Tylka, & Van Deist, 2017)
Timeframe: Change from baseline FAS scores to 20 weeks