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The Self-Disgust Scale Revised Version: Validation and relationships with


eating disorder symptomatology

Article  in  Journal of Eating Disorders · November 2014


DOI: 10.1186/2050-2974-2-S1-O48

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Moncrieff-Boyd et al. Journal of Eating Disorders 2014, 2(Suppl 1):O48
http://www.jeatdisord.com/content/2/S1/O48

ORAL PRESENTATION Open Access

The Self-Disgust Scale Revised Version: validation


and relationships with eating disorder
symptomatology
Jessica Moncrieff-Boyd1*, Karina Allen1, Sue Byrne1, Kenneth Nunn2
From 2014 ANZAED Conference: Driven Bodies Driven Brains
Fremantle, Australia. 22-23 August 2014

Disgust has been recognised as a significant emotion in doi:10.1186/2050-2974-2-S1-O48


Anorexia and Bulimia Nervosa. Self-disgust, a discrete Cite this article as: Moncrieff-Boyd et al.: The Self-Disgust Scale Revised
Version: validation and relationships with eating disorder
emotional experience characterised by feelings of revulsion symptomatology. Journal of Eating Disorders 2014 2(Suppl 1):O48.
and abhorrence at the self, has gained recent empirical
attention among psychological conditions such as Major
Depressive Disorder, but has yet to be explored in eating
disorders. To date, only one self-report measure of self-
disgust has been developed. This presentation will address
the validation of a revised version of the Self-Disgust Scale
(Overton, Markland, Taggart,Bagshaw and Simpson,
2008), which was modified in order to capture self-disgust
as a distinct construct assessing visceral qualities of repul-
sion and abhorrence at the body and self, as well as low
levels of self-acceptance. The revised version of the scale
was administered to 746 university undergraduates (64%
female) and associations were examined between scores
on the revised Self-Disgust Scale and scores on the Eating
Disorder Examination Questionnaire. Results revealed a
significant, positive relationship between levels of
self-disgust and eating disorder symptomatology,
including global symptom scores and the presence of
specific eating disorder behaviours. These findings will
be discussed in regard to their wider implications for
a potential role of disgust at the self and the body in
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