The relationship between friendship factors and adolescent girls' body image concern, body dissatisfaction, and restrained eating

Article Abstract:

A study examined whether poorer friendship relations predict weight concerns and dietary restraint in adolescent girls. Results suggest sociocultural risk factors for disordered eating and underline the importance of perceived peer affiliation on girls' body image concern and dieting.

Public affairs, Social aspects, Medical examination, Teenage girls, Self-perception in adolescence, Adolescent self perception

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Never too old for eating disorders or body dissatisfaction: A community study of elderly women

Article Abstract:

A study was conducted to examine the eating behavior and body attitude in elderly women. It was found that eating disorders do occur in elderly women and therefore should be included in the differential diagnosis of elderly presenting with weight loss, weight phobia and/or vomiting.

Risk factors, Food habits, Aged women, Elderly women

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Menarche, puberty, and first sexual activities in eating-disordered patients as compared with a psychiatric and a nonpsychiatric control group

Article Abstract:

A study that on females' suffering either from bulimia nervosa or anorexia nervosa with regard to menarche, puberty and first experience of sex is conducted. Results show that women who had eating disorders had a negative body attitude at the time of puberty.

Sexual behavior, Patient outcomes, Physiological aspects, Women patients

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