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Han, GiBaeg; Wang, Chiachih D. C.; Jin, Ling; Bismar, Danna – International Journal for the Advancement of Counselling, 2022
This cross-cultural comparison study examined the direct and indirect effects (via several cognitive-affective pathways) of insecure attachment on bulimic behaviors and explored cultural similarities and differences in all pathways of the indirect effect model between female university students from the U.S. and Korea. Our findings from the two…
Descriptors: Eating Disorders, Attachment Behavior, Cultural Differences, Females
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Baraskewich, Jessica; von Ranson, Kristin M.; McCrimmon, Adam; McMorris, Carly A. – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2021
Feeding problems, such as picky eating and food avoidance, are common in youth with autism. Other feeding and eating problems (e.g. disordered eating, fear of trying new foods, and insistence on specific food presentation) are also common in this population. This scoping review describes the nature and extent of feeding and eating problems in…
Descriptors: Eating Disorders, Eating Habits, Preferences, Food
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Magtoto, Joanne; Cox, David; Saewyc, Elizabeth – International Journal of School & Educational Psychology, 2013
Using a province-wide school-based health survey, this article investigated body satisfaction as a mediator of the association between eating disorder behaviors and immigrant status. Participants were a sample of adolescent girls (n = 15,066) and boys (n = 14,200) who completed the 2008 McCreary Centre Society Adolescent Health Survey IV.…
Descriptors: Human Body, Immigrants, Adolescents, Eating Disorders
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Roberts, Kimberly C.; Danoff-Burg, Sharon – Journal of American College Health, 2010
Objective: The investigators examined relations between mindfulness and health behaviors in college students, as well as the role of stress in mediating these effects. Participants: Participants were 553 undergraduates (385 females; mean age = 18.8 years, SD = 2.1) recruited from a university in the northeastern United States. Methods:…
Descriptors: College Students, Attention, Health Behavior, Well Being
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Tolaymat, Lana D.; Moradi, Bonnie – Journal of Counseling Psychology, 2011
This study tested tenets of objectification theory and explored the role of the hijab in body image and eating disorder symptoms with a sample of 118 Muslim women in the United States. Results from a path analysis indicated that individual differences in wearing the hijab were related negatively with reported sexual objectification experiences.…
Descriptors: Muslims, Females, Self Concept, Eating Disorders
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Jung, Jaehee; Forbes, Gordon B. – Psychology of Women Quarterly, 2007
Body dissatisfaction and disordered eating were compared across groups of college women from China (n = 109), South Korea (n = 137), and the United States (n = 102). Based on cultural differences in the amount of exposure to Western appearance standards, particularly the thin-body ideal, sociocultural theory (Thompson, Heinberg, Altabe, &…
Descriptors: Feminism, Females, Eating Disorders, Cultural Differences
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2011
The national Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS) monitors priority health risk behaviors that contribute to the leading causes of death, disability, and social problems among youth and adults in the United States. The national YRBS is conducted every two years during the spring semester and provides data representative of 9th through 12th grade…
Descriptors: Social Problems, Ethnicity, Private Schools, Health Behavior
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Shamaley-Kornatz, Angelee; Smith, Brenda; Tomaka, Joe – Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences, 2007
This study explored the weight management practices, rates overweight and obesity, perceptions of body weight, and weight management goals in a large sample (N = 467) of Hispanic (n = 421) and Anglo (n = 46) female college students on the U.S.-Mexico border. Women self-reported their height and weight, weight perceptions, and weight management…
Descriptors: Eating Habits, Eating Disorders, Body Weight, Obesity
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Stark-Wroblewski, Kim; Yanico, Barbara J.; Lupe, Steven – Psychology of Women Quarterly, 2005
In the context of the sociocultural model of eating disorders, this study investigated the hypothesis that Westernization would be positively associated with eating pathology among non-Western women. International participants from Japan (n=26), Peoples Republic of China (n=25), Taiwan (n=30), and Hong Kong (n=25) who were studying in the United…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Acculturation, Norms, Pathology
Callahan, Jamie L. – Online Submission, 2005
I explore the role of training practices at the United States Air Force Academy (USAFA) in perpetuating power and control issues and the potential consequences of those practices. I argue that trainee responses to control deprivation may have resulted in alleged sexual assaults by male cadets and the eating disorders manifested by female cadets.…
Descriptors: Military Schools, Military Training, Sexual Abuse, Eating Disorders
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Pracana, Clara, Ed.; Wang, Michael, Ed. – Online Submission, 2016
We are delighted to welcome you to the International Psychological Applications Conference and Trends (InPACT) 2016, taking place in Lisbon, Portugal, from 30 of April to 2 of May, 2016. Psychology, nowadays, offers a large range of scientific fields where it can be applied. The goal of understanding individuals and groups (mental functions and…
Descriptors: Conferences (Gatherings), Educational Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology