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Carels, Robert A.; Douglass, Olivia M.; Cacciapaglia, Holly M.; O'Brien, William H. – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 2004
Much of the research on relapse crises in dieting has focused on isolated lapse events and relied heavily on retrospective self-report data. The present study sought to overcome these limitations by using ecological momentary assessment (EMA) techniques to examine situations of dietary temptation and lapse with a sample of obese, formerly…
Descriptors: Coping, Eating Habits, Dietetics, Females
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Latzer, Yael; Tzischinsky, Orna; Geraisy, Nabil – Journal of Adolescence, 2007
Objective: The aims of the study were to examine weight concerns, dieting and eating behaviours in a group of Israeli-Arab schoolgirls as compared with Israeli-Jewish schoolgirls, as well as to investigate the reliability of the Arabic (Palestinian) version of the eating disorder inventory-2 (EDI-2). Method: The sample consisted of 2548 Israeli…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Analysis, Semitic Languages, Jews
Stenzel, Lucia Marques; Saha, Lawrence J.; Guareschi, Pedrinho – International Education Journal, 2006
The aims of this paper are (a) to investigate how adolescents perceive and represent the body form with respect to being fat or thin, and (b) to describe the process of how they constructed the social representations for these latter two body conditions. The data were collected by means of individual and focus group interviews with adolescent…
Descriptors: Body Weight, Focus Groups, Eating Disorders, Adolescents
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Swartz, Hillary; Leitch, Cynthia J. – Journal of School Health, 1975
Descriptors: Adolescents, Age, Blood Circulation, Body Weight
Perdue, Lauren; Silverstein, Brett – 1985
Eating disorders are more common among women than men, perhaps because of the present cultural emphasis on thinness for women. Television is one potential communicator of this thin standard of attractiveness. To assess how men and women are presented on television, 139 male characters and 82 female characters from 33 popular television shows were…
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Body Image, Body Weight
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President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports, Washington, DC. – 1984
The principal addresses at this Women's Leadership Conference on Fitness were: (1) "Keynote Address" (C. Carson Conrad); (2) "Essential Nature of Fitness" (Lawrence E. Lamb); (3) "Effects of Exercise on Women from 20-50 Years Old" (Sharon Plowman); (4) "Fitness in Older Women" (Everett L. Smith); (5) "Female Musculo-Skeletal System" (Robert P.…
Descriptors: Aerobics, Body Weight, Exercise, Females
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Wilmore, Jack H. – Journal of School Health, 1977
While substantial physiological differences exist between the average male and female athlete, there is little reason to advocate different training or conditioning programs on the basis of sex. (JD)
Descriptors: Athletes, Athletics, Body Weight, Exercise (Physiology)
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Overdorf, Virginia G. – Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance, 1987
The preoccupation of some female sports enthusiasts with thinness is frequently symptomatic of underlaying emotional problems. This article examines the problem and makes suggestions to enable coaches to cope with these athletes. (MT)
Descriptors: Anorexia Nervosa, Athletes, Athletic Coaches, Body Weight
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Stake, Jayne; Lauer, Monica L. – Sex Roles, 1987
Consequences of body weight were explored in sample of women and men. Average weight subjects showed preference for thin women but not for thin men; women are more negatively affected by body size in opposite-sex relationships; being overweight negatively affected self-attitudes of all subjects, but particularly those of women; and women are…
Descriptors: Body Image, Body Weight, Females, Interpersonal Relationship
Smith, Julia; Niemi, Nancy – 2003
This study examines the relationship between girls' body size and their intellectual abilities as perceived by their classroom teachers. The study aims to show that girls' body size has a negative relationship to teachers' perception of their intellect, even in the earliest grades where puberty has not yet become a factor in children's…
Descriptors: Body Composition, Body Weight, Classroom Environment, Cognitive Ability
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And Others; Zakus, Gloria – Adolescence, 1979
Described is a group weight control project with severely obese adolescent girls in a medical setting. Behavior modification principles were utilized with peer group interaction. Significant others had separate group meetings. Small amounts of weight loss were recorded. Dropouts continued to have a net gain. (Author/KC)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Behavior Change, Body Weight, Dietetics
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Pomerleau, Cynthia S. – American Journal of Health Behavior, 1996
This paper examines gender differences in smoking that may lead to differential treatment process and outcome, suggesting ways to incorporate nicotine replacement products into treatment strategies adapted to the special needs of women smokers and discussing withdrawal symptomatology, maintaining abstinence, weight concerns, menstrual cycle…
Descriptors: Adults, Body Weight, Drug Rehabilitation, Females
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Davison, Kirsten Krahnstoever; Birch, Leann Lipps – Developmental Psychology, 2002
This longitudinal study examined peer teasing and parent criticism as mediators of the relationship between girls' weight status and self-concept. Findings indicated that at both ages 5 and 7, overweight girls reported lower self-concept. Peer weight-related teasing and parent criticism mediated relationship between weight status and self-concept…
Descriptors: Body Image, Body Weight, Children, Females
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Koszewski, Wanda M.; And Others – Journal of College Student Development, 1990
Examined the effects of a nutrition education program on the eating attitudes and behaviors of college women (N= 130). Experimental and control groups completed pre- and posttest assessments of nutrition knowledge, attitudes, and eating behaviors. Findings showed that the nutrition education program positively affected the attitudes and eating…
Descriptors: Body Weight, College Students, Eating Habits, Females
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Janz, Kathleen – Strategies, 1988
This article addresses dangerous dieting techniques used by athletes and provides coaches and teachers specific strategies to aid in preventing eating-related disorders among athletes. Symptoms of anorexia and of bulimia are described. (JL)
Descriptors: Anorexia Nervosa, Athletes, Body Composition, Body Weight
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