Table 6.

Summary of evidence regarding risk factors for body image concerns in elite athletes across syntheses.

	General Risk Factors			Sport-Specific Factors
	Demographics			Sport Categories
	Gender	Age	Para-Athletes
* MA of athletes (Hausenblas and Downs, 2001) [17]	RR vs. non-athletes: =	RR vs. non-athletes: =		=
* SR of female collegiate athletes (Varnes et al., 2013) [29]
MA of elite para-athletes (Macdougall et al., 2015) [32]			Para-athletes (non-para-athletes)
* MA of female athletes (Chapa et al., 2022) [23]		=		Mixed findings between SR and MA
* MA of athletes (Burgon et al., 2023) [22]				Lean (non-lean) in females
* MA of athletes (Zaccagni and Gualdi-Russo, 2023) [44]	Females (males)			=

Note. Risk factors identified in each synthesis are presented, with reference group (if provided) in brackets. “=” indicates synthesis found no consistent evidence of a relationship between this risk factor and disordered eating. “*” indicates that this risk factor was assessed including elite and non-elite athletes in this synthesis, although there was evidence to suggest to no significant difference between elite and non-elite athletes for disordered eating. MA = meta-analysis, SR = systematic review, RR = relative risk.