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ERIC EJ853645: The Association of Body Mass Index, Perceived Body M... |
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Rates of eating disorders have increased recently and are |
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a public health concern especially among college |
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students. Understanding variables that are associated |
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with eating disorders could be helpful in preventing |
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them. Participants (N = 525) were students from a large |
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southwestern university. It was hypothesized that a |
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desire for an underweight body mass index (BMI) would be |
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predicted by one's ability to accurately identify one's |
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current BMI while controlling for variables previously |
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shown to be associated with eating behaviors, which |
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included body dissatisfaction; drive for thinness; social |
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physique anxiety; bulimia tendencies; dietary restraint; |
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age; race; Greek membership; and gender were included in |
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the regression model. Women scored higher than men on |
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measures of social physique anxiety, body |
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dissatisfaction, drive for thinness, and dietary |
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restraint, although more then twice the proportion of men |
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(49%) as compared with women (22%) were overweight or |
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obese. Women were more accurate in correctly identifying |
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their own BMI category. However, incorrectly identifying |
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one's BMI was the only significant predictor of desiring |
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an underweight BMI among women. No independent variables |
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predicted the desire for an underweight BMI among men. |
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Future research should assess the preventive and |
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predictive power of accurately assessing one's BMI with |
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eating behaviors. (Contains 3 tables.) |
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Date Published: 2016-05-24 08:03:17 |
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Identifier: ERIC_EJ853645 |
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Item Size: 5272325 |
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Language: english |
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Media Type: texts |
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