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Download full textBlack, David R., Ed. – 1991
Eating disorders among athletes has become an important topic both nationally and internationally. This volume of empirically focused articles presents theory, issues, and the latest research in a concise form for a variety of audiences. The 11 chapters are: (1) "Eating Disorders among Athletes: Current Perspective" (D. R. Black); (2)…
Descriptors: Anorexia Nervosa, Athletes, Body Weight, Bulimia
McBride, Leslie – 1985
The current emphasis on thinness has had a negative impact on many women and girls who suffer from a negative body image, poor self-concept, and depression, three conditions that often manifest themselves behaviorally through chronic dieting, compulsive exercise, and eating disorders. Socio-cultural factors that have contributed to this emphasis…
Descriptors: Body Image, Body Weight, Cultural Influences, Females
Rarick, G. Lawrence; Dobbins, D. Alan – Medicine and Science in Sports, 1975
Descriptors: Body Weight, Children, Elementary School Students, Exercise (Physiology)
Levitz, Leonard S.; And Others – 1980
The behaviorally-based weight control program conducted by Levitz and Jordan at the University of Pennsylvania and the Institute for Behavioral Education is tailored to patient needs and includes stimulus control, cognitive restructuring, and nutrition education. The success of patients in maintaining the clinically meaningful weight losses…
Descriptors: Behavior Modification, Body Weight, Eating Habits, Followup Studies
Pollitt, Ernesto; Gilmore, Michael – 1977
This study tests the proposition that selective behaviors of both mother and infant during feeding are predictors of weight gain during the first month of life. Forty normal mother-neonate pairs were studied, and the target behaviors were examined using an adaptation of the techniques developed by Brown and Bakeman (in which approximately 60…
Descriptors: Body Weight, Infant Behavior, Infants, Interaction Process Analysis
An Evaluation of Parental Problem Solving Training in the Behavioral Treatment of Childhood Obesity.
Peer reviewedGraves, Teresa; And Others – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1988
Evaluated efficacy of parental problem-solving training in a behavioral weight-reduction program for obese children. Assigned children and their parents to problem-solving, behavioral, and instruction-only weight-loss groups. Children in the problem-solving group lost significantly more weight and maintained the weight loss better. Child weight…
Descriptors: Behavior Modification, Body Weight, Children, Counseling Techniques
Peer reviewedVillimez, Carolyn; And Others – Sex Roles, 1986
Presents results of a study that examined the relation of elementary school girls' and boys' height and weight to: (1) teachers and peers' perceptions of the children's independence and academic, athletic, and social competence; and (2) children's achievement test scores and grades. Discusses results in relation to cultural stereotypes and their…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Body Height, Body Weight, Child Development
Peer reviewedPost, G.; Crowther, J. H. – Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 1985
A discriminant function analysis identified variables that significantly differentiated bulimic (N=71) from nonbulimic (N=71) adolescent females within a high school setting. These variables included disturbed eating attitudes, negative perception of weight and body image, depressive symptomatology, and alcohol use. Implications for the etiology…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Behavior Disorders, Body Image, Body Weight
Peer reviewedSafer, Daniel J.; Allen, Richard P. – Pediatrics, 1973
Descriptors: Body Height, Body Weight, Child Development, Drug Therapy
Peer reviewedSasiene, Gwen Hagenbuch – Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance, 1983
Research pertaining to female athletes' problems with secondary amenorrhea is reviewed. Studies point to stress, weight loss, anorexia nervosa, obesity, arduous athletic training, and age of onset of training as factors which may contribute to this disorder. (PP)
Descriptors: Athletes, Body Weight, Exercise Physiology, Females
Peer reviewedCeledon, J. M.; And Others – Journal of Mental Deficiency Research, 1980
The mental and psychomotor development of 35 severely malnourished infants in Chile were examined during nutritional and psychological treatment. There was a significant difference between younger and older infants in their response to the treatment. (Author/DLS)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Body Weight, Child Development, Cognitive Development
Lynch, Annette Rutt; Stillman, Stephen M. – Journal of Physical Education and Recreation, 1979
An example of behavior modification used in athletic coaching is presented. The case study involves a member of a women's basketball team and details the use of behavior modification for both weight reduction and skill improvement. (JMF)
Descriptors: Athletes, Athletic Coaches, Athletics, Behavior Change
Peer reviewedBrenner, David; Hinsdale, Gary – Adolescence, 1978
Body build stereotypes of average-weight and heavy females, ages 6, 15, and 19, were studied through adjective checklists and drawings of endomorphs, ectomorphs, and mesomorphs. Mesomorph drawings were favored and the endomorphs least liked. But heavy subjects rejected for themselves behavioral stereotypes previously applied to the endomorph…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Body Image, Body Weight, Females
Peer reviewedDavidson, Denise; Thill, Azure Dee Welborn; Lash, Denise – Child Study Journal, 2002
This study examined the adult body shape preferences of 6- and 10-year-olds from the United States, Mainland China, and Turkey. Findings indicated that even the youngest children preferred thin, male and female figures and least preferred the very obese figures. Heavier female figures were chosen by Turkish children more than by other children.…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Body Composition, Body Weight, Childhood Attitudes
Peer reviewedMcNamara, Kathleen – Journal for Specialists in Group Work, 1989
Behavioral and cognitive-behavioral group programs for weight control were effective among 32 college women in reducing weight and alleviating depressed mood, fear of negative evaluations, and social avoidance and distress. Addition of cognitive restructuring component failed to improve efficacy of behavioral weight control program even on…
Descriptors: Behavior Modification, Body Weight, Cognitive Restructuring, College Students
