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Azrin, Nathan H.; Kellen, Michael J.; Ehle, Christopher T.; Brooks, Jeannie S. – Behavior Modification, 2006
Studies of self-induced vomiting of retarded persons have found that the rate of eating and the amount eaten alter this problem. The present study attempted to determine whether this same relationship was exhibited by the nonretarded bulimic. A nonretarded bulimic woman provided her subjective ratings of her desire to vomit after eating her taboo…
Descriptors: Eating Disorders, Females, Food, Research Design
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Becker, Carolyn Black; Smith, Lisa M.; Ciao, Anna C. – Journal of Counseling Psychology, 2006
The authors investigated the effectiveness of 2 interventions in reducing eating disorder risk factors under naturalistic conditions in sororities. On the basis of previous research, the campus sororities chose to implement a semimandatory, 2-session eating disorder prevention program to all new sorority members (N = 90) during sorority…
Descriptors: Eating Disorders, Prevention, Intervention, Risk
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Samuels, R.; Chadwick, D. D. – Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, 2006
Background: Adults with learning disabilities referred for assessment of their eating and drinking are frequently reported to cough and choke when eating and drinking. The research literature investigating dysphagia has often overlooked asphyxiation risk, highlighting coughing and choking as indicators of aspiration only. This is a notable…
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, Predictor Variables, Risk, Adults
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Harrison, Kristen; Hefner, Veronica – Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 2006
Internalization of the thin body ideal is considered by many to account for the relationship between media exposure and disordered eating among girls and young women, but almost all supporting research has employed adolescent and adult samples. Using longitudinal panel survey data collected from 257 preadolescent girls at 2 points in time 1 year…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Eating Disorders, Females, Preadolescents
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Landphair, Juliette – About Campus, 2007
What exactly is perfect? Students describe perfection as a combination of characteristics valued by their peer culture: intelligence, thin and fit physical appearance, social poise. As students chug through their daily lives--morning classes, organization meetings, club sports practice or the gym, dinner, another class, more meetings, library,…
Descriptors: Females, College Students, Peer Influence, Standard Setting
Weinshenker, Naomi – School Nurse News, 2002
Discusses body image among adolescents, explaining that today's adolescents are more prone to body image distortions and dissatisfaction than ever and examining the historical context; how self-image develops; normative discontent; body image distortions; body dysmorphic disorder (BDD); vulnerability of boys (muscle dysmorphia); who is at risk;…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Body Image, Eating Disorders, Health Promotion
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Holt, Melissa K.; Espelage, Dorothy L. – Journal of Counseling & Development, 2002
Examines interpersonal problem solving, relationship conflict, and social support among women with and without eating disorders. Contrary to predictions, groups did not differ on relationship conflict and social support measures. As hypothesized, disordered eating symptoms were associated with less effective problem solving in eating and weight…
Descriptors: Eating Disorders, Females, Interpersonal Competence, Predictor Variables
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Grilo, Carlos M.; Shiffman, Saul – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1994
Examined whether variability in cognitive and emotional reactions to binges accounts for recurrence of binge eating. Evaluated attributional, cognitive, and affective reactions to 2 successive binges among 50 nonpurging normal-weight female bingers. Analyses suggest that cognitive states evoked by particular events were better predictors of how…
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, Bulimia, Cognitive Style, Eating Disorders
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Katsiyannis, Antonis; Torrey, Gregory; Bond, Valerie – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 1998
Offers guidelines to assist school personnel in addressing pica, an eating disorder involving consumption of nonedible substances frequently observed in people with mental retardation. Guidelines are organized around principles that stress surveying the situation, selecting treatments (behavioral, nutritional, and/or medical), and considering the…
Descriptors: Behavior Disorders, Case Studies, Eating Disorders, Elementary Education
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Mazzeo, Suzanne E. – Journal of Counseling Psychology, 1999
In Study 1 a modification of the Body Shape Questionnaire (BSQ) was developed with a sample of female undergraduates. The BSQ-R-10 yielded reliable and valid scores and was strongly related to disordered eating. In Study 2, The BSQ-R-10 was cross-validated in another sample of female undergraduates; its psychometric properties were further…
Descriptors: Body Image, College Students, Eating Disorders, Females
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Kerwin, MaryLouise E.; Berkowitz, Robert I. – School Psychology Review, 1996
The fourth edition of the "Diagnostic Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders" (DSM) recognizes that feeding problems of infants and children are not typically the same as eating problems of adolescents, thus the addition of a broad diagnostic category, "Feeding and Eating Disorders of Infancy or Early Childhood." Subtypes are…
Descriptors: Bulimia, Children, Diagnostic Tests, Eating Disorders
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Wilson, Nona L.; Blackhurst, Anne E. – Journal of Humanistic Counseling, Education and Development, 1999
States that although the influence of fashion advertising on women's relationships with food and their bodies has received considerable attention, the role of food advertising in women's magazines has been virtually unexplored. Argues that food advertisements reflect and contribute to the primary precursors of eating disorders: body…
Descriptors: Advertising, Body Image, Dietetics, Eating Disorders
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Hohlstein, Leigh Anne; Smith, Gregory T.; Atlas, Jana G. – Psychological Assessment, 1998
Five eating reinforcement expectancies and one dieting--thinness reinforcement expectancy were identified and their factor structure replicated on an independent sample of 557 women. Expectancies for negative reinforcement from eating characterized bulimia but not anorexia and were correlated with indexes of restraint plus disinhibition in a…
Descriptors: Body Image, Diagnostic Tests, Dietetics, Eating Disorders
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Harrison, Kristen – Journal of Communication, 2000
Finds that exposure to fat-character television, thin-ideal magazines, and sports magazines predicted eating-disorder symptomatology for adolescent females, especially older ones; exposure to fat-character television also predicted body dissatisfaction for younger males; and that relationships remain significant when selective exposure based on…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Communication Research, Eating Disorders, Higher Education
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Myers, Elizabeth M. – ALAN Review, 1998
Draws on the author's own experiences to look at several adolescent novels that treat the problem of eating disorders. Appends a four-item annotated bibliography of other young adult novels portraying characters with eating disorders. (RS)
Descriptors: Adolescent Literature, Annotated Bibliographies, Characterization, Eating Disorders
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