Katie Meschino

Background:

Katie (she/her) is a fifth-year graduate student in the Clinical Psychology Doctoral Program at Bowling Green State University. She earned her Bachelor of Science in Behavioral Neuroscience at Quinnipiac University in 2020. She spent the following year working as a postgraduate associate at the Yale School of Medicine in the Department of Psychiatry. Her research focuses on the development of body image and eating disturbances, with a particular focus on the influence of sociocultural factors. Katie recently proposed her dissertation: Moving Beyond a Weight Centric Approach: Body Image and Quality of Life After Bariatric Surgery

Peer-Reviewed Publications

Kalantzis, M., Wang, P., Meschino, K., Raffoul, A., Nahid, R., & Braden, A. (2025). Sociocultural Influences on Disordered Eating in Arab, Middle Eastern, and North African American Women: A Population Gap Research Study Examining the Roles of Acculturative Stress and Family, Peer, and Media Pressures. International Journal for the Advancement of Counselling, 1-16. 

Braden, A., Kalantzis, M., Dauber, A., Meschino, K. J., Barnhart, W. R., Jordan, A. K., & Studer-Perez, E. I. (2025). Measurement of emotional eating with the emotional eating scale, a laboratory paradigm, and ecological momentary assessment. Eating Behaviors, 58, 102011.

Meschino, K. J., & Braden, A. L. (2024). The role of body weight in college students’ perceptions of anorexia nervosa and atypical anorexia nervosa. Journal of American College Health, 1-11.

Dauber, A., Redondo, R., Meschino, K. J., & Braden, A. (2023). Dietary changes in an acceptance-based weight loss pilot intervention study. Eating Behaviors, 48, 101707.

Conference Presentations

Gaggiano, C., Meschino, K., & Braden, A. (November, 2025). Childhood restriction: Links to binge and emotional eating in pre-surgical bariatric patients. Poster to be presented at The Obesity Society Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA.

Meschino, K., Braden, A., & Gaggiano, C. (November, 2025). Impact of age and disordered eating risk factors on body appreciation in a bariatric surgery sample. Poster to be presented at The Obesity Society Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA.

Gaggiano, C., Braden, A., & Meschino, K. (November, 2025). Body appreciation is associated with less loss of control eating in pre-surgical bariatric patients. Poster to be presented at The Obesity Society Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA.

Braden, A., Meschino, K., Gaggiano, C., Kalantzis, M., & Urbanczyk, E. (November, 2025). Emotional eating types among bariatric surgery candidates. Poster to be presented at The Obesity Society Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA.

Braden, A., Barnhart, W. R., Dauber, A., Meschino, K. J., Kalantzis, M. A., Jordan, A., Studer-Perez, E. I. (2024, March). Assessing emotional eating: Integration of self report, experimental, and ecological momentary assessment findings. Poster Presented at Society of Behavioral Medicine 45^th Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA.

Meschino, K. J., Braden, A. (2024, March). The role of body weight in college students’ perceptions of anorexia nervosa and atypical anorexia nervosa. Poster Presented at Society of Behavioral Medicine 45^th Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA.

Kalantzis, M., Meschino, K., Gonzalez, A., & Braden, A. (2023, June) A development of norms of eating pathology and body image measurements in Arab, Middle Eastern, and North African women. Paper presented at the International Conference of Eating Disorders, Washington D.C.

Braden, A., Dauber., A., Redondo, R., & Meschino, K. J. (2022, April). Dietary changes in an emotion regulation based weight loss intervention.[Live research spotlight]. Society of Behavioral Medicine 43rd Annual Meeting, Baltimore, MD.

Meschino, K. J.,Bennett, B.L., Stefano, E.C., Latner, J.D. (2021, December). Examining thin-ideal and muscular-ideal internalization across ethnic groups. Mini-Talk Presented at the Special Interest Group Expo at the 2021 Association of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies Convention, New Orleans, Louisiana.

Meschino, K. J., Bennett, B.L., Stefano, E.C., Latner, J.D. (2021, November). Examining thin-ideal and muscular-ideal internalization across ethnic groups. Poster Presented at the Special Interest Group Expo at the 2021 Association of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies Convention, New Orleans, Louisiana.