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Drive For Thinness In Black And White Preadolescent Girls, Ruth H. Striegel-Moore, George B. Schreiber, Kathleen M. Pike, Denise E. Wilfley, Judith Rodin
Drive For Thinness In Black And White Preadolescent Girls, Ruth H. Striegel-Moore, George B. Schreiber, Kathleen M. Pike, Denise E. Wilfley, Judith Rodin
Ruth Striegel Weissman
This study examined racial differences in drive for thinness, a motivational variable implicated in the etiology of eating disorders. Subjects included 613 black and white preadolescent girls from one of three National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) Growth and Health Study centers. Instruments included the Drive for Thinness Scale, a Criticism about Weight scale, the Self-Perception Profile for Children, a Sexual Maturation index, and 3-day food diaries. Black girls reported significantly greater drive for thinness than white girls. Drive for thinness was significantly associated with adiposity in both groups; additional predictors included criticism about weight for black girls and …
Psychological Factors In The Etiology Of Binge Eating, Ruth H. Striegel-Moore
Psychological Factors In The Etiology Of Binge Eating, Ruth H. Striegel-Moore
Ruth Striegel Weissman
Numerous psychological factors have been hypothesized to play a role in the etiology of binge eating. This chapter proposes that female gender-role socialization puts girls at risk for the development of binge eating. Moreover, it is proposed that an understanding of risk requires an exploration of the developmental tasks of female adolscence. As research of the etiology of binge eating in particular and eating disorders in general begins to move away from testing single-factor causal models and toward testing complex, multifactorial models of causation, research needs to examine the psychological factors discussed in this chapter.
The Relationship Between Weight And Psychological Functioning Among Adolescent Girls, Michael A. Friedman, Denise E. Wilfley, Kathleen M. Pike, Ruth H. Striegel-Moore, Judith Rodin
The Relationship Between Weight And Psychological Functioning Among Adolescent Girls, Michael A. Friedman, Denise E. Wilfley, Kathleen M. Pike, Ruth H. Striegel-Moore, Judith Rodin
Ruth Striegel Weissman
This study investigated whether Body Mass Index (BMI) was associated with various aspects of psychological functioning in a sample of largely Caucasian adolescent girls. Three hundred sixty-five adolescent girls ranging from ages 14 through 19 were assessed for general psychological functioning utilizing the Symptom Checklist-90-Revised (SCL-90-R), and functioning specific to eating, shape and weight utilizing the Eating Disorders Inventory (EDI). Excess weight was associated with higher scores on the Bulimia, Body Dissatisfaction and Drive for Thinness subscales of the EDI. Excess weight was not, however, associated with general psychopathology or any of the subscales of the SCL-90-R. The results suggest …