PREVALENCE AND CORRELATES OF EATING DISORDERED BEHAVIORS AMONG UNDERGRADUATE WOMEN
PREVALENCE AND CORRELATES OF EATING DISORDERED BEHAVIORS AMONG UNDERGRADUATE WOMEN
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DOI：
10.1037/0022-0167.35.4.463
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发表时间：
1988-10-01
影响因子：
3.9
通讯作者：
BETZ, NE
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作者：
MINTZ, LB;BETZ, NE
本研究调查了女大学生饮食失调行为的患病率及其相关因素。对682名本科生女性进行了体重管理习惯、身体形象、自尊和对社会文化标准认可程度的测量。然后，643名非厌食症、非肥胖症受试者被分成代表饮食行为连续体的六个类别之一。结果表明，在这些女性中，节食和暴饮暴食的行为都很普遍。虽然只有3%的人被归类为暴食症，但61%的人被归类为患有某种中间形式的饮食行为问题，即长期节食、暴饮暴食或单独排泄，或者亚阈值(亚临床)暴食症。只有33%的受试者报告了可以被认为是正常的饮食习惯。进食障碍的程度与自尊降低、身体形象更负面、更倾向于支持有关女性苗条的社会文化信仰、对体重和外表的痴迷想法以及体重和外表对其他生活领域的干扰密切相关。我们讨论了对咨询和研究的影响。
This study investigated the prevalence and correlates of eating disordered behaviors among college women. Measures of weight management habits, body image, self-esteem, and degree of endorsement of sociocultural norms regarding thinness were administered to a sample of 682 undergraduate women. The 643 nonanorexic, nonobese subjects were then classified into one of six categories representing severity along an eating-behaviors continuum. The results indicated a high prevalence of both dieting and binging behaviors among the women. Although only 3% were classified as bulimic, 61% were classified as having some intermediate form of eating-behavior problem, that is, chronic dieting, binging or purging alone, or subthreshold (subclinical) bulimia. Only 33% of the subjects reported what could be considered normal eating habits. The degree of disturbed eating was strongly correlated with lowered self-esteem, more negative body image, greater tendency to endorse sociocultural beliefs regarding the desirability of female thinness, obsessive thoughts concerning weight and appearance, and interference of weight and appearance concerns with other life domains. We discuss the implications for counseling and research.