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Hooker, Dawn; Convisser, Ellen – Personnel and Guidance Journal, 1983
Discusses clinical observations of women (N=100) with eating problems, focusing on emotional issues as well as how these women use food as a coping mechanism. Reported that therapy helped these women shed anxiety and fear about food and to see eating as something they consciously choose to do. (LLL)
Descriptors: Anorexia Nervosa, Body Image, Body Weight, Coping

Chapman, Stanley L.; Jeffrey, D. Balfour – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1978
In comprehensive wieght loss program, overweight women exposed to instruction in self-standard setting and to situational management techniques lost more weight than those instructed only in situational management techniques. Findings illustrate facilitative effect of teaching individuals to set specific, objective, and realistic goals for eating…
Descriptors: Behavior Modification, Behavior Standards, Body Weight, Conditioning
Burke, Edmund J.; Brush, Florence C. – Research Quarterly, 1979
This study describes the endurance capacities and anthropometric characteristics of highly-trained, female, teenaged, distance runners. (MM)
Descriptors: Athletes, Body Height, Body Weight, Females

Fowler, Barbara Ann – Adolescence, 1989
Investigated relationship of body image perception and weight status to recent change in weight status of adolescent females. Nonobese, overweight, and obese girls (N=90) aged 13 through 17 completed Body-Cathexis Scale and self-report recent change in weight status and demographic questionnaire. Results revealed significant positive correlation…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Body Image, Body Weight, Females

Parnell, Kathy; And Others – Journal of School Health, 1996
White and black adolescent females (n=344) participated in a survey of ideal body size beliefs using a questionnaire and 9 female and male body size drawings. Black females preferred a significantly heavier ideal female body size than whites and perceived that their parents and friends would select as ideal a significantly heavier female body size…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Attitudes, Beliefs, Blacks
Wood, Heather M.; Baumgartner, Ted A. – Measurement in Physical Education and Exercise Science, 2004
The revised push-up test has been found to have good validity but it produces many zero scores for women. Maybe there should be an alternative to the revised push-up test for college-age women. The purpose of this study was to determine the objectivity, reliability, and validity for the bent-knee push-up test (executed on hands and knees) for…
Descriptors: Body Weight, Athletics, Females, Predictive Validity
Elliot, Diane L.; Moe, Esther L.; Goldberg, Linn; DeFrancesco, Carol A.; Durham, Melissa B.; Hix-Small, Hollie – Journal of School Health, 2006
Almost one half of male and female students participate in high school-sponsored athletics, and high school also is a time when classroom health promotion curricula are less effective. The Athletes Training and Learning to Avoid Steroids is a sport team-centered drug-use prevention program for male high school athletes, which has been shown to…
Descriptors: Prevention, Intervention, Females, Risk
Tsou, Meng-Wen; Liu, Jin-Tan – Education Economics, 2006
This paper sets out to examine the impacts of schooling and health knowledge on the level of obesity in Taiwan. The results obtained from a sample of Taiwanese females support the hypothesis of Grossman that schooling has a direct positive effect on health by reducing the likelihood of a person being obese. The awareness of obesity-disease…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Females, Obesity, Health Behavior
Franzoi, Stephen L. – 1986
Although research has shown that regularly engaging in vigorous activity has both physical and mental benefits, including a more positive evaluation of one's own body, the multidimensional nature of people's body attitudes has not been considered. The Body Esteem Scale (BES) was developed to identify and assess different body esteem dimensions.…
Descriptors: Adults, Aerobics, Attitude Change, Body Image

DeWolfe, Judith A.; Jack, Elizabeth – Journal of School Health, 1984
This article explores effectiveness of three different types of follow-up of a weight control program in assisting adolescent girls to achieve and maintain ideal body weights. The results of the follow-up strategies are presented. (Author/DF)
Descriptors: Body Weight, Eating Habits, Females, Followup Studies

Yudkovitz, Elaine – Social Work, 1983
Describes bulimia, a disorder involving binge eating and purging increasingly prevalent in young women. Reviews the literature and describes symptoms, etiological factors, and treatment considerations and approaches for the disorder. (Author)
Descriptors: Body Weight, Caseworker Approach, Eating Habits, Emotional Disturbances

Hodge, Carole Nhu'y; And Others – Psychology of Women Quarterly, 1993
Investigates weight gain among 61 female first-year college students weighed in their first month at college and 6 months later. The majority remained the same weight. Favorable body image was related to weight loss for those who lost weight, but no other characteristics studied were related to weight change. (SLD)
Descriptors: Body Weight, Change, College Freshmen, Eating Habits

Sherwood, Nancy E.; Neumark-Sztainer, Dianne – American Journal of Health Promotion, 2001
Surveyed adolescent girls regarding body dissatisfaction, dieting, and internalization of sociocultural values, media-influenced knowledge, acceptance of varied body shapes, and media exposure. Girls understood media influence on self-image and behavior and accepted varied body shapes. Significant numbers reported dissatisfaction with weight and…
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Body Image, Body Weight, Dietetics

Austin, S. Bryn; Gortmaker, Steven L. – American Journal of Public Health, 2001
Tested the relationship between dieting frequency and risk of smoking initiation among middle school students. Data on students who completed a nutrition and physical activity intervention study indicated that girls who dieted up to once per week had twice the adjusted odds of becoming smokers. Girls who dieted more often had four times the…
Descriptors: Body Weight, Dietetics, Early Adolescents, Females

Befort, Christie; Kurpius, Sharon E. Robinson; Hull-Blanks, Elva; Nicpon, Megan Foley; Huser, Laura; Sollenberger, Sonja – Journal of College Student Development, 2001
Examines weight-related criticism from romantic partners and the importance of the romantic relationship in relation to the body image and self esteem for college freshmen women. Results reveal that self esteem and body image were positively related. Partner importance also predicted self esteem, whereas criticism did not. (Contains 55 references…
Descriptors: Body Image, Body Weight, College Students, Criticism