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Puhl, Rebecca M.; Luedicke, Joerg – Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 2012
Weight-based victimization is a frequent experience for adolescents, but little is known about their emotional reactions and coping strategies in response to weight-based teasing and bullying. The present study examined the ways that adolescents cope with experiences of weight-based victimization at school. An initial sample of 1,555 students from…
Descriptors: Obesity, Student Attitudes, Bullying, Females
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Whitlock, Janis; Muehlenkamp, Jennifer; Eckenrode, John – Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 2008
Prior studies of nonsuicidal self-injury (NSSI) suggest the existence of multiple NSSI typologies. Using data from 2,101 university students, this study employed latent class analysis to investigate NSSI typologies. Results show a good fitting 3-class solution with distinct quantitative and qualitative differences. Class 1 was composed largely of…
Descriptors: Females, Self Destructive Behavior, Injuries, College Students
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Spillane, Nichea S.; Boerner, Laura M.; Anderson, Kristen G.; Smith, Gregory T. – Assessment, 2004
Researchers studying eating disorders in men often use eating-disorder risk and symptom measures that have been validated only on women. Using a sample of 215 college women and 214 college men, this article reports on the validity the Eating Disorder Inventory2 (EDI-2), one of the best-validated among women and the most widely used risk and…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Eating Disorders, College Students, Psychometrics