PERCEPTIONS OF COLLEGE WOMEN WITH DISORDERED EATING AND EXERCISE PATTERNS

2006 ◽  
Vol 34 (9) ◽  
pp. 1035-1050 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jessica R. Johnstone ◽  
Kathryn M. Rickard
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Eating Disorder ◽  
College Women ◽  
Disordered Eating ◽  
Perceived Similarity ◽  
Demographic Information ◽  
Control Female ◽  
Excessive Exercise ◽  
Female Target ◽  
And Control

This study examined college students' perceptions of women struggling with various eating-and exercise-related disorders. The 220 participants read a vignette describing either an anorexic female, a bulimic female, a female who engages in excessive exercise, or a control female target. The targets were rated on a list of personality and physical dimensions. The participants' demographic information, perceived similarity to the target, and experience with someone similar to the target were also examined. Results demonstrated that the targets with anorexia and bulimia were viewed significantly more negatively than were excessive exercising and control targets. Perceived personal similarity to the target also significantly increased positive ratings of the targets, which suggests that those who have had an eating disorder may empathize with those who are currently struggling.

An Exploration of the Relationship Between Disordered Eating, Exercise Dependence, and Athletic Injury

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Carrie B. Scherzer ◽  
Jeremy Trenchuk ◽  
Meaghan Peters ◽  
Robert Mazury
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Eating Disorders ◽  
Eating Disorder ◽  
Disordered Eating ◽  
Elevated Risk ◽  
Athletic Injury ◽  
Exercise Dependence ◽  
Contributing Factors ◽  
Eating Disorders Inventory ◽  
The Relationship

Athletes can be at elevated risk for developing eating disorders, the effects of which can be devastating. Few researchers have examined the influence of a predisposition toward an eating disorder on athletic injury. Exercise dependence might bridge the gap toward understanding this relationship. This study sought to examine the relationship between predisposition toward an eating disorder and exercise dependence and looked at both as predictors of athletic injury. College students (n = 132) completed the Eating Disorders Inventory and the Exercise Dependence Questionnaire, as well as provided demographic, activity, and injury information. Subscales of the Eating Disorders Inventory and Exercise Dependence Questionnaire were significant predictors of having at least one athletic injury in the preceding year. These findings suggest that both predisposition toward an eating disorder and exercise dependence may be contributing factors to injury.

Relations between implicit attitudes towards eating disorder stimuli and disordered eating symptoms among at-risk college women

2021 ◽  
Vol 41 ◽  
pp. 101499
Author(s):  
Shruti S. Kinkel-Ram ◽  
Natalie M. Perkins ◽  
Jessica Ribeiro ◽  
Joseph Franklin ◽  
April R. Smith
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
Eating Disorder ◽  
College Women ◽  
Disordered Eating ◽  
Implicit Attitudes ◽  
Disordered Eating Symptoms

scholarly journals Presence of different forms of compensatory behaviours among eating disordered patients

2010 ◽  
Vol 138 (5-6) ◽  
pp. 328-332
Author(s):  
Olga Kontic ◽  
Nadja Vasiljevic ◽  
Jagoda Jorga ◽  
Miroslava Jasovic-Gasic ◽  
Aneta Lakic ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Eating Disorders ◽  
Body Weight ◽  
Eating Disorder ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Excessive Exercise ◽  
Eating Disordered ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
24 Hour Recall ◽  
And Control ◽  
Experimental Group

Introduction Eating disorders indicate unhealthy habits in nutrition and/or behaviour in the feeding and maintaining of body weight. The main characteristic of these diseases is changed behaviour in nutrition, either as an intentional restriction of food, namely extreme dieting or overeating, i.e. binge eating. Extreme dieting, skipping meals, self-induced vomiting, excessive exercise, and misuse of laxatives and diuretics for the purpose of maintaining or reducing body weight are the forms of compensatory behaviour. Objective The purpose of the present research was to determine the presence of different inappropriate compensatory behaviours among eating disordered patients. Methods The experimental group included 35 female eating disordered patients of 23.02?}3.46 years on average, with anorexia or bulimia nervosa. The control group consisted of 70 girls aged 23.1?}3.0 years on average. Each participant completed a '24-hour Recall Questionnaire' and the 'Eating Disorder Diagnostic Scale'. Results A high statistically significant difference existed in the presence of all compensatory behaviours in the experimental and control group, regarding vomiting (?2=40.6; p<0.001), misuse of laxatives and diuretics (?2=33.7; p<0.001), extreme dieting (?2=23.4; p<0.001) and excessive exercising (?2=27.1; p<0.001). Conclusion Eating disordered patients showed a significantly higher incidence of all evaluated forms of compensatory behaviour in comparison with the control group. This report confirms the presence of specific symptomatology of anorexia and bulimia patients. .

The Effects of a Neutral Stimulus (Buzzer) on Motor Responses and Disfluencies in Normal Speakers

1969 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 179-184 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard R. Martin ◽  
Gerald M. Siegel
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Neutral Stimulus ◽  
Motor Responses ◽  
Control Subjects ◽  
And Control ◽  
Speaking Task

Seventy-two college students were divided into three groups: Button Push-Speech (BP-S), Speech-Button Push (S-BP), and Control. BP-S subjects pushed one of two buttons on signal for 8 min. During the last 4 min, depression of the criterion button caused a buzzer to sound. After the button-push task, subjects spoke spontaneously for 30 min. During the last 20 min, the buzzer was presented contingent upon each disfluency. S-BP subjects were run under the same procedures, but the order of button-push and speech tasks was reversed. Control subjects followed the same procedures as S-BP subjects, but no buzzer signal was presented at any time. Both S-BP and BP-S subjects emitted significantly fewer disfluencies during the last 20 min (Conditioning) than during the first 10 min (Baserate) of the speaking task. The frequency of disfluencies for Control subjects did not change significantly from Baserate to Conditioning. In none of the three groups did the frequency of pushes on the criterion button change significantly from minute to minute throughout the 8-min button-push session.

scholarly journals Purification, Punishment, and Control: Eating Disorders, Self-Harm, and Child Sexual Abuse

2021 ◽  
pp. 104973232110174
Author(s):  
Lisa Hodge ◽  
Amy Baker
Keyword(s):  
Eating Disorders ◽  
Sexual Abuse ◽  
Eating Disorder ◽  
Child Sexual Abuse ◽  
Sexually Abused ◽  
Self Harm ◽  
And Control ◽  
Depth Interviews

Eating disorders continue to be viewed as curable diseases, forcing people into predetermined narratives of pathology that shape how they are viewed and treated. Situated in a feminist application of Bakhtin’s sociological linguistics, we were concerned with how participants understood eating disorders, the nature of their experiences, and the causes of their distress. Following a dialogical method, multiple in-depth interviews were conducted with seven women who experienced an eating disorder and who had been sexually abused previously, and participants’ own drawings and poetry were obtained to gain deeper insights into meanings and emotions. We found an eating disorder offered a perception of cleanliness and renewal that was attractive to participants who experienced overwhelming shame. It is critical that researchers use a range of visual and sensory methods to move eating disorder understandings and treatment beyond illness and pathology.

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