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Showing 1 to 20 of 90 for “"thinness"”.
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Desire for thinness and desire for health in eighteen and nineteen-year-old females
Desire for thinness and desire for health were surveyed among eighteen and nineteen year old female adolescents in north-central West Virginia to determine the incidence of these motivations within this population and their relationship to unnecessary weight loss concerns, and dieting behaviors. …
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Market thinness and the potential benefits of domestic-only portfolio diversification in Canadian equity markets
… that are subject to varying degrees of market thinness for domestic-only investment in Canadian equities. The study also determines if the benefits of diversification are best examined using time-varying or static estimates of volatility. This thesis has four major findings. First, about 30 …
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Sorority Women & Eating Pathology: Communities of Unhealthy Body Standards?
… 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 of this study are to discern the underlying …
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Ethnicity and attitudes to body shape
… shown that western society is one that values thinness and holds a negative attitude towards overweight individuals. The role of ethnicity is an under researched area in attitudes to body shape, particularly views of obesity in different cultures. The primary aims of this study were to compare …
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Pathogenic Eating Behaviors and Psychological Risk Factors of Weight Preoccupied College Students
… between Body Dissatisfaction and Drive for Thinness to several psychological correlates: Ineffectiveness, Interpersonal Distrust, Perfectionism, Interoceptive Awareness, and Maturity Fears. Regression analyses indicated that these five correlates together accounted for 23% of the variance in …
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Testing an integrated body image media model : focusing on a cross-cultural comparison between US and Korean college women
… were mediated by cognitive outcome (normative thinness) and the effect was stronger among Korean women. Also, body image disturbance predicted behavioral intentions for both groups. Appearance importance functioned as a moderator (normative thinness) for U.S women only. Self-discrepancy was a …
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The link between exercise dependence and eating disturbance in females
… disturbance of exercise dependence, pressure for thinness, and competitiveness. In order to examine the relationships between these vari~bles, four groups were included in the study: ballet students (n=32), competitive swimmers (n=34), music students (n=33), and a control group of psychology …
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Weight Stigma, Cognitions, and Disordered Eating
… examined in the current study were drive for thinness, weight bias internalization, and perfectionism. The DE behaviors examined were emotional eating, restrained eating, inappropriate compensatory behaviors, and binge-eating. Weight bias internalization and drive for thinness were the only DE …
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Survey of Knowledge of Fifty Registered Professional Nurses Regarding Selected Factors of Indirect Blood Pressure Measurement
… width, emotions and activities, obesity versus thinness, position of the subject, inflation and deflation of cuff pressure, and the site of measurement. The information provided a foundation for this investigation. The method of study used was the descriptive survey type; the tool for collecting …
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Correlates of Body Image of Undergraduate Females Attending Andrews University
… pressure, and internalization of the thinness ideal were also explored.</p> <p>Results: Results of this study indicated that low ratings on Sociocultural Pressure and Internalization of the Thinness Ideal were related to positive body image perceptions. As a whole, undergraduate …
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An exploration of the perceptions about being thin, HIV/AIDS and body image in black South African women
… women residing in Khayelitsha, Site B, about thinness, HIV/AIDS and body image. Obesity is a major public health problem in developed as well as developing countries. The HIV/AIDS epidemic has been escalating in Sub-Saharan Africa and has been said to be the leading cause of death in South …
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Use of the eating disorder inventory in determining eating disorder tendencies among runners
… controls. Females scored higher on drive for thinness and body dissatisfaction. Female runners scored significantly higher on drive for thinness than all other groups. The mean NAS score was 78 for the females and 74 for the males. Significant body dissatisfaction subscale differences found …
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Adolescent Norms for the Eating Disorder Inventory as Related to Personal Variables in Female Adolescents at One Private Urban, One Rural, and One Semi-Rural High School
… norms for the college women on Drive for Thinness, Body Dissatisfaction, Interoceptive Awareness, Ineffectiveness, and Maturity Fears.</p> <p>There were no significant differences on the Eating Disorder Inventory subscale scores for respondents in this study from different ages, grades, …
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Predictors of Eating Pathology in Adolescents: A Comparison of Ballet Dancers and Non-Dancers
… or gymnastics, which are known to emphasize thinness, are believed to be at even higher level of risk for eating pathology than girls in the general population. Ballet is an example of an aesthetic sport where thinness is thought to be greatly emphasized and valued. There is a strong body of …
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Achieving success in Western society: bulimia as the ultimate effort
… to conform to accepted standards of excessive thinness. It is noted that the bulimia trend primarily appears among the population which is overwhelmingly targeted by messages promoting the ideals of success through excessive beauty and thinness. Therefore, this study explores the relationships …
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Menstrual dysfunction and eating behaviors in weight training women
… WLs were significantly higher on Drive for Thinness than Cs and more WLs had subscale scores higher than the mean scores presented for anorexics. Additionally, significantly more WLs reported uncontrollable urges to eat, fear of fat, and history of anorexia. Mean %BF of the WLs was 20.18% …
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The Role of Alexithymia in Ethnic Groups on Eating-Related Attitudes and Behaviors
… features of eating disorders, such as drive for thinness, binging and purging, and body dissatisfaction. Ethnic differences were apparent in eating-related attitudes and behaviors. Despite being heavier, African American students had less body dissatisfaction and drive for thinness than Caucasian …
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College Women and Disordered Eating Symptomatology: A Relational-Cultural Perspective
… that the variables of sociocultural pressure for thinness, internalization of the thin ideal, and body dissatisfaction uniquely predicted significant variance in disordered eating. Perceived mutuality and self-silencing did not predict significant, unique variance in disordered eating. However, …
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Attitudes and Behaviors Toward Weight, Body Shape and Eating in Male and Female College Students
… of disordered eating including drive for thinness, body dissatisfaction, bulimia, dietary restraint and social physique anxiety in male and female college students. Difference between actual, desirable and perceived body weight was also assessed. ANOVA suggested that as actual body mass …
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Guided etching and deposition of transition metal dichalcogenides
… and environment fields. Because of its atomic thinness, 2DTMDs are promising candidates for osmosis energy harvesting membranes. Furthermore, the scalable nanopore preparation in MoS₂ crystals provides a more cost-efficient option replacing precious metal-based catalyst for hydrogen evolution …
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