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Perceptions of weight and attitudes toward eating in early adolescent girls.
Elissa Koff,Jill Rierdan +1 more
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Sixth grade girls responded to questions about their weight, body image, dieting practices, and attitudes toward weight and eating suggested that feeling too fat and wishing to lose weight were becoming normative for young adolescent girls.About:
This article is published in Journal of Adolescent Health.The article was published on 1991-06-01. It has received 109 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Dieting & Overeating.read more
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Body image and weight concerns among African American and White adolescent females: Differences that make a difference.
TL;DR: The authors examined body image ideals and dieting behaviors among African American and White adolescent females and found that African American females were more flexible than their White counterparts in their concepts of beauty and spoke about "making what you've got work for you".
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The spectrum of eating disturbances
TL;DR: It is indicated that the prevalence of partial syndrome eating disorders in nonclinical populations is at least twice that of full syndrome EDs, and that there is a progression in some individuals from less to more severe disturbances in eating behavior.
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Eating disorders in adolescents: A background paper
Martin Fisher,Neville H. Golden,Debra K. Katzman,Richard E. Kreipe,Jane M. Rees,Janet Schebendach,Garry Sigman,Seth Ammerman,Harry M. Hoberman +8 more
TL;DR: Although eating disorders primarily affect adolescents and young adults, much of the recent medical and psychiatric literature fails to consider the unique physiologic, psychologic, and developmental issues relevant to younger patients, more often describing older patients with more chronic and intractable disease.
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Overeating Among Adolescents: Prevalence and Associations With Weight-Related Characteristics and Psychological Health
TL;DR: Overeating among adolescents is associated with a number of adverse behaviors and negative psychological experiences and future research should seek to identify whether objective overeating is an early warning sign of additional psychological distress or is a potential consequence of compromised psychological health.
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Children's perceptions of peer influence on eating concerns
Krista K. Oliver,Mark H. Thelen +1 more
TL;DR: The authors explored how children's perceptions of peer influence were associated with their eating and body image concerns, and found that the belief that being thin will increase how much peers like them was a major contributor in predicting eating-related concerns.
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Toward an understanding of risk factors for bulimia.
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Anxiety, restraint, and eating behavior.
C. Peter Herman,Janet Polivy +1 more
TL;DR: The results indicated that although some individuals may eat more when anxious, there is little empirical support for the notion that eating serves to reduce anxiety, and the psychosomatic hypothesis of obesity had failed to find confirmation.
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Bulimia: a report of 34 cases.
TL;DR: The association between stealing behavior, chemical abuse and bulimia suggests problems with impulse control in this population of young females who usually experienced the onset of eating problems by early adulthood.
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The accuracy of self-reported weights.
TL;DR: Self-reported weights were remarkably accurate across all these variables in the American sample, even among obese people, and may obviate the need for measured weights in epidemiological investigations.
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