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Direct linkBasow, Susan A.; Foran, Kelly A.; Bookwala, Jamila – Psychology of Women Quarterly, 2007
Social pressure to conform to the thin ideal is believed to play a decisive role in the development of eating disorders. In this field study at a college with only sophomore rush, 99 sorority women, 80 nonsorority women past their first year, and 86 first-year women completed three subscales of the Eating Disorders Inventory-2 (Garner, 1991), the…
Descriptors: Females, Eating Disorders, Sororities, Social Influences
Download full textBasow, Susan A.; Schneck, Renae – 1983
In the past 10 years, eating disorders among adolescent females have become of increasing concern. To assess the prevalence of eating disorders, unusual eating-related behaviors and attitudes, and psychological states among college women, 677 women, from three private northeastern United States colleges, completed a questionnaire assessing…
Descriptors: Anorexia Nervosa, Body Image, Body Weight, College Students
