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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Sorority Women"”.
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Sexual Victimization Among Sorority Women
<p>Numerous studies have shown that sorority women have been found to be at greater risk for sexual victimization (including rape and sexual assault) than non-sorority women (29% to 7% respectively; Minow & Einolf, 2009) for several reasons, including: frequent contact and association with …
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Sorority Women & Eating Pathology: Communities of Unhealthy Body Standards?
<p>The present study examines disordered eating, sorority social norms regarding the body and thinness, personal values regarding the body and thinness, body dissatisfaction, thin ideal internalization, fat talk, negative affect, and positive affect among sorority and non-sorority women. The aims …
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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 Quantitative Study of Self-Stereotyping and Selective Self-Stereotyping by Sorority Women
… for stereotyping and continuing stereotypes, 150 sorority women were surveyed to obtain their views on common stereotypes of sorority members. While existing literature suggests that stereotypes tend to be endorsed by out-group members, the present study explored whether sorority women (the …
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Pilot Study Of Safe Sisters: A Sexual Assault Prevention Program For Sorority Women
… (CDC, 2014). Approximately one in five women will become a victim of sexual violence at some point in their lifetime (RAINN, 2009). College women are at a greater risk for rape and other forms of sexual assault than women in the general population (Fisher, Cullen & Turner, 2000). During …
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Body Dissatisfaction and Other Sociocultural Factors as Predictors of Body Image Perceptions in Sorority and Non-Sorority Women
… of body image perceptions in college-aged sorority and non-sorority women. The Social Attitudes Towards Appearance Questionnaire (SATAQ-3) (Thompson et al, 2004), the Body Dissatisfaction subscale of the Eating Disorders Inventory 3 (EDI-3) (Garner, 2004), the Body Image Assessment (BIA) …
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Problematic eating behaviors among college women: suggesting a subgroup
… are a major problem for men and especially women across the country. A particularly vulnerable group of women to eating disorders and skewed perception of their bodies are college women with 86% of women reporting onset of their eating disorder by the age of twenty (ANAD, 2000). Previous …
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“Good Guys Do Rape”: An Examination of College Student Perceptions of Sexual Assault Perpetrators
… students, and in particular fraternity men and sorority women, view perpetrators of sexual assault. We focused on fraternity men and sorority women given Greek affiliated students’ high risk for sexual assault perpetration and victimization. Affiliated Greek men are over represented among sexual …
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Sexual Assertiveness as a Predictor of Differential Vulnerability in Sexual Victimization Between Sorority- and Non-Affiliated College Women
… research in 1985, it has been clear that college women are especially vulnerable to sexual victimization; more than 30% of her sample had experienced the legal definition of rape, which includes completed as well as attempted rape. Since then, several studies have found similar findings. Koss, …
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Sorority Eating Patterns: A Longitudinal Investigation
To date, most research in the area of college women and eating disorders has only been conducted to determine the prevalence of eating disorders among selected college subgroups. Although such research is limited, particularly for those women that choose to join social sororities, it generally …
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Self-Objectification, Eating Attitudes, And Sexual Coercion In College Women
… by Fredrickson and Roberts (1997) explains how women view their bodies as objects. Studies have looked at self-objectification and its associated negative effects, such as cognitive decline, body shame, disordered eating, and low self-esteem in a number of different populations; however, no …