Impact of Coaching Messages on Eating Behaviors in Female Athletes

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erin E. Schweers ◽  
Gretchen L. Doninger ◽  
Kent F. Burnett ◽  
Vicki L. Burns ◽  
Jacqueline L. Perry ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Eating Behaviors ◽  
Female Athletes

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.

Nutritional Concerns of Female Athletes: A Case Study

1991 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 257-264 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nancy Clark
Keyword(s):  
Body Weight ◽  
Eating Behaviors ◽  
Female Athletes ◽  
Carbohydrate Intake

Some of the nutritional concerns of female athletes are highlighted in this case study of a 20-year-old woman who wants to lose 16% of her body weight to qualify for the position of coxswain on a national crew team. These concerns include adequacy of vitamin, mineral, protein, and carbohydrate intake as well as amenorrhea and pathogenic eating behaviors.

scholarly journals Are inappropriate eating behaviors and anxiety related with track and field in adolescent athletes?

2014 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 311-319 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leonardo de Sousa Fortes ◽  
Sebastião de Sousa Almeida ◽  
Maria Elisa Caputo Ferreira
Keyword(s):  
Trait Anxiety ◽  
Eating Behaviors ◽  
Female Athletes ◽  
Subscale Score ◽  
Eating Attitudes ◽  
Track And Field ◽  
Social Forces ◽  
State Trait Anxiety Inventory ◽  
Oral Control ◽  
Food Preoccupation

OBJECTIVE: The study analyzed the relationship between anxiety and inappropriate eating behaviors in adolescent female athletes. METHODS: Eighty-eight track and field athletes aged 12 to 17 years participated in the study. We used the Eating Attitudes Test-26 subscales to assess inappropriate eating behaviors and the Brazilian State - Trait Anxiety Inventory subscales to assess State and Trait anxiety. RESULTS: State - Trait Anxiety Inventory - State (p=0.18) or State - Trait Anxiety Inventory - Trait (p=0.14) had no significant influence on the Dieting subscale score. The Bulimia and Food Preoccupation subscale score was also not influenced by State - Trait Anxiety Inventory - State (p=0.25) or State - Trait Anxiety Inventory - Trait (p=0.21). However, State - Trait Anxiety Inventory - Trait (p=0.048) had a significant impact on the Oral Control subscale score, but State - Trait Anxiety Inventory - State (p=0.19) did not explain its variance. CONCLUSION: Only State - Trait Anxiety Inventory - Trait was related to oral control and the environmental and social forces that encourage food intake in female athletes.

Psychosocial Correlates of Disordered Eating Among Male Collegiate Athletes

2007 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 340-357 ◽  
Author(s):  
Trent A. Petrie ◽  
Christy Greenleaf ◽  
Jennifer E. Carter ◽  
Justine J. Reel
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Eating Disorders ◽  
Eating Disorder ◽  
Disordered Eating ◽  
Eating Behaviors ◽  
Female Athletes ◽  
Collegiate Athletes ◽  
Male Athletes ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

Few studies have been conducted examining male athletes and eating disorders, even though the sport environment may increase their risk. Thus, little information exists regarding the relationship of putative risk factors to eating disorders in this group. To address this issue, we examined the relationship of eating disorder classification to the risk factors of body image concerns (including drive for muscularity), negative affect, weight pressures, and disordered eating behaviors. Male college athletes (N= 199) from three different NCAA Division I universities participated. Only two athletes were classified with an eating disorder, though 33 (16.6%) and 164 (82.4%), respectively, were categorized as symptomatic and asymptomatic. Multivariate analyses revealed that eating disorder classification was unrelated to the majority of the risk factors, although the eating disorder group (i.e., clinical and symptomatic) did report greater fear of becoming fat, more weight pressures from TV and from magazines, and higher levels of stress than the asymptomatic athletes. In addition, the eating disorder group had higher scores on the Bulimia Test-Revised (Thelen, Mintz, & Vander Wal, 1996), which validated the Questionnaire for Eating Disorder Diagnosis (Mintz, O’Halloran, Mulholland, & Schneider, 1997) as a measure of eating disorders with male athletes. These findings suggest that variables that have been supported as risk factors among women in general, and female athletes in particular, may not apply as strongly, or at all, to male athletes.

scholarly journals Female Athletes With Multiple Bone Stress Injuries (BSI) Display Restrictive Eating Behaviors

2021 ◽  
Vol 53 (8S) ◽  
pp. 125-126
Author(s):  
Sarah Gehman ◽  
Margaret Garrahan ◽  
Sara Rudolph ◽  
Signe Caksa ◽  
Adam S. Tenforde ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Eating Behaviors ◽  
Female Athletes ◽  
Restrictive Eating ◽  
Bone Stress ◽  
Stress Injuries

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.

Disordered Eating in Female Collegiate Gymnasts: Prevalence and Personality/Attitudinal Correlates

1993 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 424-436 ◽  
Author(s):  
Trent A. Petrie
Keyword(s):  
Disordered Eating ◽  
Body Satisfaction ◽  
Eating Behaviors ◽  
Female Athletes ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Lower Body ◽  
Partial Support ◽  
Eating Disturbance ◽  
Collegiate Gymnasts

This study extended the examination of the eating disorders continuum to the population of female athletes. Participants (215 collegiate gymnasts) were classified as normal/nondisordered eaters, exercisers, bingers, dieter/restricters, subthreshold bulimics, or bulimics and were then compared on several personality and attitudinal measures. Results revealed that (a) over 60% of the gymnasts met the criteria for one of the intermediate disordered eating categories, (b) only 22% reported eating behaviors that could be classified as normal or nondisordered, and (c) higher levels of disordered eating disturbance, particularly bulimia nervosa, were associated with a desire to weigh less, lower body satisfaction, lower self-esteem, and greater endorsement of sociocultural values regarding women's attractiveness. The findings provide partial support for the eating continuum in female athletes, and suggest that disordered eating may be the normative behavior in this population. Implications for interventions as well as directions for future research are provided.

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

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
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