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Conflicting Gender Role Prescriptions and Disordered Eating in Single-Sex and Coeducational School Environments.
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Mensinger, Janell – Gender and Education, 2001
Examined the hypothesis that adolescent girls attending single-sex schools would exhibit greater body dissatisfaction and disordered eating than their coeducational counterparts, reanalyzing data from relevant subscales of an eating disorder inventory (drive for thinness, bulimia, and body dissatisfaction) and a figure rating scale from an earlier…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Body Image, Coeducation, Eating Disorders
Conflicting Gender Role Prescriptions and Disordered Eating in Single Sex and Coeducational School Environments.
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Mensinger, Janell – 2000
This paper reviews the findings reported by Dyer and Tiggemann (1996) in Australia studying the effect of single sex versus coeducational school environments on body concerns in adolescent females. It details the reasons why parents and their children choose to be educated in single sex versus coeducational environments; and reviews literature…
Descriptors: Body Image, Eating Disorders, Females, Foreign Countries