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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"Eating Attitudes Test"”.
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The Correlation Between the Eating Attitudes Test and Body Shape Questionnaire
This research examined the relationship between eating attitudes and body image dissatisfaction using the Eating Attitudes Test (EAT) and the Body Shape Questionnaire (BSQ). Three cohorts of almost 2,000 undergraduate females from Brigham Young University were given the EAT and BSQ twice a year for …
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Eating attitudes and behaviours in a diverse group of high school students in the Western Cape
… and 12 completed a questionnaire survey on their eating attitudes and behaviours. The mean age for the sample was 16.77 years. The survey included a Demographic Questionnaire, the Eating Attitudes Test (EAT-26), the Bulimic Investigatory Test, Edinburgh (BITE), the Questionnaire of Eating and …
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Family Differentiation, Family Recreation, and Symptoms of Eating Disorders
… family recreation and symptoms of eating disorders. The Family Intrusiveness Scales, the Perceived Social Support from Family, the Family Leisure Activity Profile and the Eating Attitudes Test were used. Participants were students at two large universities, one in the East and one …
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Abnormal eating patterns and the relationship to dissociative experiences
… if a relationship exist between abnormal eating patterns and dissociative experiences, as well as if a relationship exist between bulimia nervosa and food preoccupation symptomatologies. This study used a non-clinical non-diagnosed population of university students (n=100) to determine …
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I want to look like that : the role of ideal-type media in disordered eating behaviours
… between media exposure and disordered eating disordered behaviours is not without complexity and contestation in the existing literature. Much knowledge of this relationship in a sample of South African university students, who could be expected to have reasonably high levels of media …
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Longitudinal Course of Eating Disorder Risk Among Undergraduate Females at Brigham Young University
… the prevalence rates and longitudinal course of eating disorder risk among undergraduate females at BYU, and compared the identified prevalence rates at BYU with identified rates at other colleges and universities. Almost 2,000 undergraduate females, in three cohort groups, filled out the Eating …
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Eating Disorder Risk in Subgroups of College Freshman Women
… college population having a heightened risk for eating disorders. The information for this analysis was retrieved from an existing data set. The two variables that were compared were self selection of college major at the initial collection during freshman year. The sample size of 1,924 was used …
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Facets of Narcissism in Relation to Muscle Dysmorphia and Eating Disorder Symptomotology
… drive for muscularity, and disordered eating behaviors in relation to personality characteristics, particularly narcissism, has yielded interesting, though often conflictual, results. The current study attempts to further explore these relationships through assessing muscle dysmorphia, …
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The Prevalence of Disordered Eating Behaviors among Sorority versus Non-Sorority Women
<p>Eating disorders among college women is a serious psychological problem. Disordered eating behaviors were examined and diagnosed at a mid-sized university in southeast Georgia. The target group of this study was university sororities. The purpose of this study was to examine sorority versus …
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A multicontextual study of environmental influences on the development of eating disordered symptomology in adolescents
Eating disorder symptoms are serious and prevalent problems in industrialized societies. Although many studies have individually investigated the influence of environmental factors on the development of eating disorder symptoms, few have considered the relative and cumulative impact of various …
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Attitudes to food and weight : a survey in a women's residence at the University of Cape Town
… has indicated that clinical and subclinical eating disorders are widespread amongst the female population of many Western countries. Following an introductory overview of some of the literature on anorexia nervosa and bulimia, highlighting the lack of diagnostic clarity in this area, previous …
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The effects of social media sites on self-esteem
… loneliness and depression (Chen & Lee, 2013). To test the effect Facebook interaction has on self-esteem, undergraduate students were asked to participate in an online, anonymous survey that consisted of the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale, the Body Esteem Scale, the Facebook Intensity Scale, and the …
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Menstrual cycle dysfunction and weight loss practices among college-age women
… occur in normal-weight women with sub-clinical eating disorders. The purpose of this investigation was to examine the influence of Eating Attitudes Test (EAT-26) scores, energy intake, and frequency of activity on ovarian hormone status in normal-weight, college-age women. Fourteen normal-weight …
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Similarities Between Etiological Models of Eating Disorder Symptomatology and Muscle Dysmorphia Symptomatology
… recently been conceptualized as the male form of Eating Disorders (ED), although it is not currently classified as an ED. The current study compares etiological models of MD symptomatology (based on Grieve's [2007] conceptual model of MD) and ED symptomatology (based on Stice's [1994] conceptual …
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L' impulsivité et les troubles alimentaires chez les joueurs et les joueuses pathologiques des machines vidéo
… & Blume, 1993), le Michigan Alcoholism Screening Test (MAST; Selzer, 1971), le Eating Attitudes Test-26 (EAT-26; Gamer, Olmstead, Bohr, & Garfinkel, 1982), et une version rétrospective du Self-Control Rating Scale (Kendall & Wilcox, 1979). L’hypothèse prédit que les joueurs ayant un niveau d …
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Female objectification, body dissatisfaction and disordered eating behaviour in a non-clinical sample
… in which females are objectified through social attitudes and gender ideals, highlights the importance of attractiveness in through which women gain social status, acceptance and power. Failure to achieve this ideal has been linked to increased body surveillance, body dissatisfaction, and …
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Convergent and discriminate validity of acculturation and eating disorders measures in Northern Plains Native Americans
… two theoretically unrelated scales measuring eating disorder attitudes and behaviors. It was hypothesized the NPBI and AICOS scores would be highly correlated with each other (displaying convergent validity) yet orthogonal to the eating disorder scales, thereby displaying discriminant validity …
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Screening for energy restriction in middle and late life
… commonly used screening tools for disordered eating, the Eating Attitudes Test (EAT-26) and Eating Disorders Examination–Questionnaire (EDE-Q), rely on the detection of shape and weight concerns to identify potentially dangerous caloric restriction among adolescent girls and young adult women. …
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A Comparative Study of Dietary Habits among College Students At-Risk and Not-At-Risk for Eating Disorders and how Such Habits Compare to the Dietary Guidelines
Objective: To examine associations between eating disorder (ED) risk and dietary habits. Also, to determine if ED risk changes after exposure to nutrition education and to investigate how the dietary habits in both at-risk (AR) and not-at-risk (NAR) college students compare the Dietary Guidelines …
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Από τη γιαγιά στη μητέρα και στην κόρη: διαγενεακές και συστημικές συνιστώσες της σχέσης μητέρας–κόρης και η σύνδεσή τους με τις διατροφικές διαταραχές
… χορηγήθηκε το εργαλείο Στάσεων προς τη Διατροφή (Eating Attitudes Test - EAT-26), το εργαλείο Γονικού Δεσμού (Parental Bonding Instrument - PBI) το οποίο προσαρμόστηκε δύο φορές. Αρχικά, αξιοποιήθηκε για την αποτύπωση της σχέσης της συμμετέχουσας με τη μητέρα της, και στη συνέχεια, δόθηκε εκ νέου …
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