Body dissatisfaction and dieting in young children
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Open-ended interviews and questionnaires have been used to investigate attitudes and beliefs about dieting and the behaviours used in weight change efforts among third to sixth-grade children in a K-8 elementary school in a suburban community in the San Francisco Bay Area, CA. There was a high prevalence of body dissatisfaction among the children surveyed, with one half wishing to weigh less and more than one third wanting a thinner body shape. Only 16% reported that they had ever tried to lose weight, but other research found that having negative feelings about body image is the only significant predictor of eating problems two years later.
Publication Name: The International Journal of Eating Disorders
Subject: Psychology and mental health
ISSN: 0276-3478
Year: 2000
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Developmental onset of eating-related color-naming interference: the role of restraint and eating psychopathology
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An analysis of whether dietary restraint and eating psychopathology affect Stroop performance times is presented. This research did not confirm previous suggestions that there is a different developmental onset for food and body shape Stroop interference effects in young female adolescents.
Publication Name: The International Journal of Eating Disorders
Subject: Psychology and mental health
ISSN: 0276-3478
Year: 2000
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Psychiatric comorbidity associated with eating disorder symptomatology among adolescents in the community
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An analysis of psychiatric comorbidity associated with eating disorder symptomatology among adolescents in the community is presented. The co-occurrence of depressive disorders and eating disorder symptomatology is highlighted.
Publication Name: The International Journal of Eating Disorders
Subject: Psychology and mental health
ISSN: 0276-3478
Year: 2000
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