Eating Attitudes and Neurotic Symptoms in University Students

1983 ◽  
Vol 142 (3) ◽  
pp. 299-304 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. G. Clarke ◽  
R. L. Palmer
Keyword(s):  
Anorexia Nervosa ◽  
Eating Disorder ◽  
University Students ◽  
Eating Attitudes ◽  
Postal Survey ◽  
Clinical Severity ◽  
Eating Attitude ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Eating Attitude Test ◽  
Attitude Test

SummaryA postal survey of male and female university students is reported, using the Eating Attitude Test (EAT) and the Crown Crisp Experiential Index (CCEI). Eleven per cent of the 156 female respondents but none of 120 males scored above 30 on the EAT, thereby declaring eating attitudes comparable to anorexic subjects. Of those interviewed, none fulfilled diagnostic criteria for anorexia nervosa, but half showed eating disorder of clinical severity. There was a clear association between high EAT scores and higher scores on all the subscales of the CCEI except the phobic scale. The results are discussed in relation to ideas about the possible origins of clinical eating disorders.

scholarly journals DISTURBED EATING ATTITUDES AMONG MALE AND FEMALE UNIVERSITY STUDENTS

2018 ◽  
Vol 57 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-60
Author(s):  
Nida ◽  
Saima Masoom Ali
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
Eating Attitudes ◽  
Male Students ◽  
Eating Attitude ◽  
Demographic Information ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Disturbed Eating ◽  
Attitude Test ◽  
Eat 26 ◽  
Male University Students

Present study compared disturbed eating attitudes among male and female university students. For which it as postulated that female university students would have more disturbed eating attitudes as compare to male students. For that reason 200 males and 200 female university students from various universities of Karachi were incorporated in the study. Their age ranged from 19 to 25. Participants after verbal and written covenantfrom the heads of their institution were asked to fill the respondents’ profile form to gather the participant’s demographic information, followed by Eating Attitude Test (EAT-26) which was used to know ones disturbed eating ways. For statistical evaluation t-test was applied, which specified that male university students experience more disturbed eating attitudes compare to female learners. This clears that distressed eating attempts are not limited to females, but is now affecting males as well. Thus to avert its budding prevalence, teaching institutions should supervise its amassed risks in their students and stimulate them to healthy lines of eating.

Alexithymia in a Clinical Sample of Obese Women

1997 ◽  
Vol 80 (2) ◽  
pp. 387-394 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Morosin ◽  
G. Riva
Keyword(s):  
Eating Disorder ◽  
Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory ◽  
Clinical Sample ◽  
Normal Weight ◽  
Eating Attitude ◽  
Obese Women ◽  
Test Analysis ◽  
Eating Attitude Test ◽  
Attitude Test ◽  
Obese Subjects

The purpose was to examine the rate of alexithymia as measured by the Toronto Alexithymia Scale in a clinical sample of obese women without Binge Eating Disorder. Subjects included 165 inpatients in an eating disorder unit and 135 normal-weight individuals (comparison group). The obese subjects also completed a series of tests including the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory, the Anxiety Scale Questionnaire, and the Eating Attitude Test. Analysis showed that the subgroups of obese persons differ in important ways and cannot necessarily be treated, studied, or understood through a single paradigm. Alexithymic behaviour, too, was not characteristic of obesity, but it was present only in the subgroup of subjects with psychopathological characteristics.

scholarly journals Actividad física en chicas adolescentes con riesgo de desarrollar un trastorno alimentario

2019 ◽  
pp. 13-25
Author(s):  
Lidia Pamies-Aubalat ◽  
Yolanda Quiles Marcos
Keyword(s):  
Eating Disorder ◽  
Eating Attitude ◽  
Eating Disorder Inventory ◽  
Eating Attitude Test ◽  
Attitude Test

La literatura ha manifestado que la actividad física puede actuar como un factor de riesgo y/o un factor mantenedor en los trastornos alimentario (TA). El objetivo de este trabajo fue analizar la relación entre la práctica de actividad física con el riesgo de desarrollar un TA, analizando la frecuencia, intensidad y duración, el tipo de actividad y los motivos de realización de esa actividad. Método: la muestra estuvo compuesta por 1130 chicas adolescentes entre 11 y 19 años (M = 13.94; DT = 1.35); cumplimentaron el Eating Attitude Test (EAT-40), la subescala de insatisfacción corporal del Eating Disorder Inventory (EDI-2) y el Inventario de Conductas de Salud en Escolares. Resultados: Las adolescentes con menor riesgo de desarrollar un TA presentaron puntuaciones medias superiores en la realización de actividad con el motivo de divertirse, estar en buena forma y ver amigos que las adolescentes con riesgo de desarrollar un TA, que presentaron puntuaciones superiores en la práctica de actividad física para perder peso y quemar calorías. Conclusiones: conocer las características de la práctica de actividad física relacionada con los TA, permite generar propuestas preventivas eficaces, impedir que estos trastornos se mantengan e incluso se cronifiquen.

Reliability and Validity of a Japanese Version of the Eating Disorder Inventory

2003 ◽  
Vol 92 (1) ◽  
pp. 131-140 ◽  
Author(s):  
Midori Shimura ◽  
Harumi Horie ◽  
Htroaki Kumano ◽  
Yuji Sakano ◽  
Hiroyuki Suematsu
Keyword(s):  
Eating Disorders ◽  
Eating Disorder ◽  
Internal Consistency ◽  
Reliability And Validity ◽  
Japanese Version ◽  
Eating Attitudes ◽  
Eating Attitude ◽  
Strong Correlations ◽  
Eating Disorder Inventory ◽  
Attitude Test

The rapid increase of patients with eating disorders in Japan has made necessary the reliable and valid measurement of psychological factors in eating disorders. The purpose of this study was to examine the reliability and validity of the Japanese version of the Eating Disorder Inventory. 766 females without eating disorders and 139 female patients with eating disorders responded to the Eating Attitude Test and the Eating Disorder Inventory. Principal factor extraction with promax rotation isolated 9 interpretable factors with satisfactory internal consistency (Cronbach alpha range = .74–.90). Compared with controls, patients scored significantly higher on all factors after minimizing the influence of Body Mass Index. There were strong correlations among factor scores and scores on the Eating Attitudes Test, particularly among patients. These results indicate the Eating Disorder Inventory as showing psychometrically sound internal consistency and concurrent validity.

Can personality traits, obesity, depression, anxiety, and quality of life explain the association between migraine and disordered eating attitudes?

2020 ◽  
Vol 78 (9) ◽  
pp. 541-548 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mehmet HAMAMCI ◽  
Özgül KARASALAN ◽  
Levent Ertuğrul İNAN
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Personality Traits ◽  
Disordered Eating ◽  
Eating Attitudes ◽  
Eating Attitude ◽  
Eating Attitude Test ◽  
Attitude Test ◽  
Anxiety Depression ◽  
Disordered Eating Attitudes

ABSTRACT Background: Few studies have explored the coexistence of migraine and disordered eating attitudes. Furthermore, the underlying pathophysiological mechanisms of migraine and disordered eating attitude comorbidity are not clearly understood. Objective: This study aimed to investigate the association between migraine and disordered eating attitudes in relation to personality traits, obesity, quality of life, migraine severity, depression, and anxiety. Methods: This study included 91 patients with episodic migraine and 84 healthy control subjects. Self-report questionnaires were used to evaluate anxiety, depression, migraine-related disability, personality traits, quality of life, and eating disorders. Results: The Eating Attitude Test (EAT) showed disordered eating attitudes in 21 patients (23.1%) in the migraine group and eight patients (9.5%) in the control group. Migraine-related disability, anxiety, depression, neuroticism, and quality of life scores were significantly worse in migraine patients with disordered eating attitudes compared to migraine patients without disordered eating attitudes. In migraine patients, eating attitude test scores were positively correlated with migraine-related disability, anxiety, depression, and neuroticism scores, and negatively correlated with quality of life scores. Conclusion: The association of migraine and disordered eating attitudes was shown to be related to depression, anxiety, quality of life and personality traits and may also indicate a more clinically severe migraine. To the best of our knowledge, there is no literature study that deals with all these relevant data together. However, neuropsychiatry-based biological studies are required to better understand this multifaceted association.

Eating Attitude Test Scores in Relation to Weight, Socioeconomic Status, and Family Stability

1988 ◽  
Vol 63 (1) ◽  
pp. 295-298 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Schmolling
Keyword(s):  
Community College ◽  
Socioeconomic Status ◽  
Young Adults ◽  
Test Scores ◽  
White Women ◽  
Eating Attitudes ◽  
Eating Attitude ◽  
Family Stability ◽  
Eating Attitude Test ◽  
Attitude Test

Eating attitudes were assessed by use of the Eating Attitude Test (EAT) in a sample of 288 young adults at a community college. The sample included relatively more poor and working class persons than are in a typical 4-yr. college. Mean EAT scores tended to fall at the high end of the range previously reported for nonclinical samples. EAT scores were not significantly related to socioeconomic variables. White women scored significantly higher than nonwhite women. Also a disproportionately high number of women from intact (as opposed to destabilized) homes scored above the EAT cut-off score. These and other findings raised questions about the validity of viewing the slimness motive as essentially pathological.

Nutritional status, Healthy Eating Index and eating attitudes of the adolescents in Istanbul: a cross-sectional study

2015 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Binnur Okan Bakir ◽  
Hulya Akan ◽  
Mehmet Akman ◽  
Oguzhan Zahmacioglu ◽  
Osman Hayran
Keyword(s):  
Healthy Eating ◽  
Eating Behaviors ◽  
Eating Attitudes ◽  
Healthy Eating Index ◽  
Eating Attitude ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Eating Attitude Test ◽  
Attitude Test ◽  
Quality Diet ◽  
Eat 26

Abstract Background: The aim of this study was to evaluate dietary quality of adolescents by using the Healthy Eating Index (HEI) and to assess their eating attitudes by the EAT-26 Eating Attitude Test. Methods: Eight schools; four primary schools and four secondary schools were randomly selected from the school list of official website of Istanbul Education National Directorate. Five hundred and ninety-eight students who met the inclusion criteria included in the study, 24 h dietary recalls were collected to calculate their HEI scores and eating attitudes were evaluated by EAT-26 Eating Attitude Test. Their weight, height and waist circumference were measured. Results: According to HEI scores, only two (0.3%) of adolescents had high quality diet, 379 (63.4%) had diet quality that needed improvement and 217 (36.3%) had poor diet. Regarding Eating Attitude Test scores, 513 (85.8%) had normal attitudes regarding eating behaviors. Conclusion: Almost all of the participants need either development or major changes in their eating behaviors. Interventions aiming high quality diet among adolescents are strongly recommended.

Validation of the Arabic version of the Eating Attitude Test in Lebanon: a population study

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chadia Haddad ◽  
Chloe Khoury ◽  
Pascale Salameh ◽  
Hala Sacre ◽  
Rabih Hallit ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Disordered Eating ◽  
Emotional Eating ◽  
Eating Attitudes ◽  
Eating Attitude ◽  
Arabic Version ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Eating Attitude Test ◽  
Attitude Test ◽  
Eat 26 ◽  
Disordered Eating Attitudes

Abstract Objectives: To validate an Arabic version of the Eating Attitude Test (EAT-26) and identify factors (such as depression, stress, anxiety and body dissatisfaction) that might be associated with disordered eating among a sample of the Lebanese population. Design: Cross-sectional study. Setting: All Lebanese governorates. Participants: A total of 811 participants randomly selected participated in this 5-month study (January–May 2018). Results: The EAT-26 scale items converged over a solution of six factors that had an eigenvalue over 1, explaining a total of 60·07 % of the variance (Cronbach’s α = 0·895). The prevalence of disordered eating attitudes was 23·8 %. Higher EAT-26 scores (disordered eating attitudes) were significantly associated with higher depression (β = 0·325), higher emotional eating (β = 0·083), daily weighing (β = 3·430), higher physical activity (β = 0·05), starving to reduce weight (β = 4·94) and feeling pressure from TV/magazine to lose weight (β = 3·95). Conclusions: The Arabic version of EAT-26 can be a useful instrument for screening and assessing disordered eating attitudes in clinical practice and research. Some factors seem to be associated with more disordered eating attitudes among participants for whom psychological counseling may be needed. Yet, our findings are considered preliminary, and further studies are warranted to confirm them.

Eating attitudes and disorder in young women: a general practice based survey

1986 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 351-357 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. N. Meadows ◽  
R. L. Palmer ◽  
E. U. M. Newball ◽  
J. M. T. Kenrick
Keyword(s):  
General Practice ◽  
Anorexia Nervosa ◽  
Eating Disorder ◽  
Diagnostic Criteria ◽  
Young Women ◽  
Response Rate ◽  
Eating Attitudes ◽  
Postal Survey ◽  
General Practices

SynopsisA postal survey with selected follow-up interviews was conducted on a complete population of females aged 18–22 registered with two group general practices in Leicestershire. The mailing included the Eating Attitudes Test (EAT) and the Crown—Crisp Experiential Index (CCEI). There was a 70% response rate and 411 usable questionnaires were returned. Twenty-eight respondents (6·8%) produced EAT scores of 30 or more. One case of anorexia nervosa and one of bulimia were identified. Interviews of high EAT scoring subjects revealed several subjects with partial syndromes which failed to fulfil diagnostic criteria for either clinical eating disorder.

Perfectionism, a Transdiagnostic Construct In Eating Disorders

2016 ◽  
Vol 33 (S1) ◽  
pp. S431-S431 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. Rodriguez Cano ◽  
L. Beato Fernandez ◽  
B. Mata Saenz ◽  
L. Rojo Moreno ◽  
F.J. Vaz Leal
Keyword(s):  
Eating Disorders ◽  
Anorexia Nervosa ◽  
Body Dissatisfaction ◽  
Eating Attitudes ◽  
The Body ◽  
Eating Attitude ◽  
Eating Psychopathology ◽  
Attitude Test ◽  
Abnormal Eating ◽  
Competing Interest

IntroductionPerfectionism is considered a multidimensional key risk factor for Eating Disorders (EDs). There are discrepancies regarding if it is mainly associated to Anorexia nervosa (AN) but not to other EDs.ObjectivesTo study if Perfectionism is not only related with AN, but it is present in all EDs and associated with more transdiagnostic attitudes and behaviors.AimsTo see if there were significant differences among EDs subgroups concerning Perfectionism and to study which abnormal eating attitudes were more associated with this trait.MethodsParticipants were 151 outpatients with EDs. DSM-IVTR diagnoses were: 44 (29.1%) Anorexia Nervosa (AN), 55 (36.4%) Bulimia Nervosa (BN) and 52 (34.4%) Eating Disorders not Otherwise Specified (EDNOS). Perfectionism was assessed with the Edinburg Investigatory Test (EDI-2) subscale; general psychopathology with the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI), State and Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI), Rosenberg Self-Esteem Questionnaire (RSE). Eating psychopathology was measured with the Bulimic Investigatory Test (BITE), Eating Attitude Test (EAT-40), EDI-2 and the Body Shape Questionnaire (BSQ).ResultsNo significant differences were found regarding Perfectionism among the three groups. Body dissatisfaction was the variable most associated with Perfectionism (β = 0.330, F = 14.2, P < 0.001, 10.9% of the variance) adjusting for general and eating psychopathology. Ascetism and Interoceptive awareness were the EDI-2 subscales most associated with Perfectionism.ConclusionsThe findings confirm that Perfectionism is present in all EDs and there is a relationship between body dissatisfaction and Perfectionism. Interplay has been suggested between these two factors for the development of EDs.Disclosure of interestThe authors have not supplied their declaration of competing interest.

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