Anxiety of young female athletes with disordered eating behaviors

2007 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 143-147 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erdal Vardar ◽  
Selma Arzu Vardar ◽  
Cem Kurt
Keyword(s):  
Disordered Eating ◽  
Eating Behaviors ◽  
Female Athletes ◽  
Young Female ◽  
Disordered Eating Behaviors

Cognitive Mapping: Its Use as an Assessment Tool for Disordered Eating

1999 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 63-72
Author(s):  
Kristin L. Wiginton ◽  
Deborah Rhea
Keyword(s):  
Eating Disorders ◽  
Disordered Eating ◽  
Eating Behaviors ◽  
Cognitive Mapping ◽  
Female Athletes ◽  
Assessment Tool ◽  
Mental Representations ◽  
Disordered Eating Behaviors ◽  
Preventive Practices ◽  
The Impact

The incidence of eating disorders among female athletes continues to increase, presenting intervention challenges to athletic trainers. Additionally, a number of female athletes have disordered eating behaviors that do not yet constitute an eating disorder diagnosis, but have similar characteristics to those athletes diagonised with eating disorders. However, each athlete exhibits individual mental representations of disordered eating and the impact of those representations on important aspects of her life. The athletic trainer has the potential to offer comprehensive preventive education when all aspects of the athlete’s own understanding of disordered eating are assessed. Cognitive mapping is an assessment technique that can be used in addition to other preventive practices and can be useful in determining an athlete’s current mental representations of disordered eating.

Nutritional Aspects of Amenorrhea in the Female Athlete Triad

1996 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 134-145 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joan E. Benson ◽  
Kathryn A. Engelbert-Fenton ◽  
Patricia A. Eisenman
Keyword(s):  
Disordered Eating ◽  
Athletic Training ◽  
Eating Behaviors ◽  
Female Athletes ◽  
Menstrual Dysfunction ◽  
Disordered Eating Behaviors ◽  
Bone Injury ◽  
High Incidence ◽  
Fat Stores ◽  
Menstrual Patterns

Female athletes experience a high incidence of menstrual abnormalities. This has critical health consequences because amenorrhea athletes are at greater risk of developing osteopenia and bone injury compared to normally menstruating athletes or nonathletic normally cycling females. Female performers and athletes are also at risk for developing disordered eating behaviors. There appears to be a connection between menstrual dysfunction, athletic training, and disordered eating, but how they relate is not fully understood. In this paper we explore how low calorie intakes, nutritional inadequacies, vegetarianism, low body fat stores, and specific training behaviors may contribute to the abnormal menstrual patterns seen in this population. Recommendations for the detection and prevention of eating and training problems and consequent menstrual abnormalities are included.

scholarly journals A Qualitative Exploration of Sport and Social Pressures on Elite Athletes in Relation to Disordered Eating

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hannah Stoyel ◽  
Russell Delderfield ◽  
Vaithehy Shanmuganathan-Felton ◽  
Alex Stoyel ◽  
Lucy Serpell
Keyword(s):  
Disordered Eating ◽  
Eating Behaviors ◽  
Female Athletes ◽  
Complex Interaction ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Disordered Eating Behaviors ◽  
Increased Risk ◽  
Social Messages ◽  
Societal Expectations ◽  
Qualitative Exploration

Introduction: Athletes are at increased risk of disordered eating compared to non-athletes. Inspired by previous investigation into quantitative work on an etiological model of disordered eating in athletes, the current study aimed to explore a problematic aspect of the model: athletes' lived experiences of social and sport pressures in relation to the onset of disordered eating and differing eating behaviors.Methods: Nine (N = 9) male and female athletes representing a range of endurance sports took part in semi-structured interviews. Thematic analysis was utilized.Analysis: Analysis revealed two main themes each with two corresponding subthemes (1) Conflating physical appearance and sporting ability with the subthemes of (1a) social comparison in a sporting world and (1b) societal notions of “the athlete body” and (2) Living as an athlete with the corresponding subthemes of (2a) discipline and sacrifice and (2b) the balancing act.Discussion: It is the complex interaction between societal expectations as lived out in social messages and comparisons, and sport pressures that contributes to the development of disordered eating behaviors. These findings suggest that prevention and treatment of disordered eating in athletes can be applied from those already established in non-sporting realm.

Hierarchical Model of Disordered Eating Behaviors in Female Athletes

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erin E. Schweers ◽  
Gretchen L. Doninger ◽  
Sarah R. Villiers ◽  
Victoria L. Burns ◽  
Jacqueline L. Perry ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Disordered Eating ◽  
Hierarchical Model ◽  
Eating Behaviors ◽  
Female Athletes ◽  
Disordered Eating Behaviors

Prevalence of Disordered Eating Behaviors Among Male Collegiate Athletes

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Trent A. Petrie ◽  
Christy Greenleaf ◽  
Justine Reel ◽  
Jennifer E. Carter
Keyword(s):  
Disordered Eating ◽  
Eating Behaviors ◽  
Collegiate Athletes ◽  
Disordered Eating Behaviors

Eating Perfect: Associations Between Perfectionism and Disordered Eating Behaviors

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Angela K. Montfort ◽  
Sarah McLaulin ◽  
Gregory L. Brack ◽  
Kathleen Mckinney Clark ◽  
Jeffrey S. Ashby
Keyword(s):  
Disordered Eating ◽  
Eating Behaviors ◽  
Disordered Eating Behaviors

Impact of weight stigma on preadolescents' and adolescents' disordered eating behaviors: Testing two mediation models

2020 ◽  
Vol 48 (10) ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
Hao Chen ◽  
Yiduo Ye ◽  
Jichang Guo
Keyword(s):  
Disordered Eating ◽  
Eating Behaviors ◽  
Weight Bias ◽  
Weight Stigma ◽  
Disordered Eating Behaviors ◽  
Self Evaluation ◽  
Weight Bias Internalization ◽  
Core Self ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Mediation Models

We investigated potential mechanisms that may explain the relationship between weight stigma and disordered eating behaviors, using 2 mediation models. In the first model we hypothesized that the relationship between weight stigma and disordered eating behaviors would be mediated by weight bias internalization, and jointly mediated by both weight bias internalization and core self-evaluation. In the alternative model we hypothesized that this relationship would be mediated by core self-evaluation, and jointly mediated by both core selfevaluation and weight bias internalization. Participants were 421 primary and secondary school students (aged 9–14 years) representing various weight categories, who responded to items about their weight stigma, weight bias internalization, core self-evaluation, and disordered eating behaviors. Results show that the 2 mediation models had a good fit to the data. Thus, improving core self-evaluation and reducing weight bias internalization appear to be significant for treating disordered eating behaviors in preadolescents and adolescents.

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