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  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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Refractory Eating Disorders in Youth: An Examination of Predictors, Profiles and Growth Trajectories

Obeid, Nicole 10 January 2013 (has links)
Eating disorders are known for their chronic and relapse-ridden course. The cyclical nature of these disorders poses not only grave physical and mental health risks for the sufferer; it also presents serious challenges for the treating professionals and places a high demand and cost on the health care system. In spite of extensive research, no reliable predictors of long-term EDs have been identified in either adult or adolescent populations, nor have treatments emerged that are specifically targeted towards treating those with a long-term ED. It is fundamental to understand who is at risk and what factors are involved in long-term EDs, as the clinical and treatment implications gleaned from this evidence could be quite impactful. The current project will include three studies that will explore long-term EDs in a large transdiagnostic sample of adolescents with an ED. It will also attempt to overcome methodological limitations associated with past studies of this type, and apply an operational definition of this course of illness that may provide a more reliable and valid method with which to identify these cases. As such, the use of the term refractory ED, defined as a return to same-type treatment, will be applied to best identify this group. The three studies proposed in this research project will provide long overdue information on predictors, profiles and growth trajectories of those adolescents who suffer from a refractory course of an ED. This research project attempts to answer the question of: who will be affected, and how will the individual be affected by a refractory ED. With the ability to identify these cases and how the course of illness is being affected, treatment approaches can better aim to provide the appropriate treatment to those individuals most at risk of suffering from a refractory course of illness.
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The Effects of Calorie Information on Food Selection and Intake

Girz, Laura 19 January 2010 (has links)
Proposed legislation in the United States and Canada would require calorie information to be presented on the menus/menu boards of restaurants. To test the possible impacts of such legislation, the present study examined the effects of calorie information on the food selection and intake of restrained and unrestrained eaters. Female students were presented with a menu containing two items, a salad and a pasta dish, for which calorie information was either present or absent. Results of the present study indicate that the provision of calorie information does not alter food choice but does influence the amount people eat. Although the salad and pasta contained the same number of calories, calorie information decreased consumption of pasta, but increased consumption of salad.
73

Being Manly Men: Conveying Masculinity Through Eating Behaviour

Lipschitz, Lisa Jodi 15 February 2010 (has links)
Males were given false feedback that they scored low, high, or no feedback (control group) on masculinity and given a “masculine” food (meat pizza), a “feminine” food (vegetarian pizza), or the choice between the two to eat. An interaction between masculinity condition and food condition was found when the “feminine” food condition and the Control group were removed, such that low-masculine participants given meat pizza ate a small amount, as did high-masculine participants given a choice. High-masculine participants given meat pizza ate a large amount of food as did low-masculine participants given a choice. In certain situations males want to appear masculine and therefore eat a larger amount of food, or want to appear attractive on other dimensions and therefore eat a smaller amount of food.
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Being Manly Men: Conveying Masculinity Through Eating Behaviour

Lipschitz, Lisa Jodi 15 February 2010 (has links)
Males were given false feedback that they scored low, high, or no feedback (control group) on masculinity and given a “masculine” food (meat pizza), a “feminine” food (vegetarian pizza), or the choice between the two to eat. An interaction between masculinity condition and food condition was found when the “feminine” food condition and the Control group were removed, such that low-masculine participants given meat pizza ate a small amount, as did high-masculine participants given a choice. High-masculine participants given meat pizza ate a large amount of food as did low-masculine participants given a choice. In certain situations males want to appear masculine and therefore eat a larger amount of food, or want to appear attractive on other dimensions and therefore eat a smaller amount of food.
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Narratives of males with eating disorders

Ashuk, Ryan M. 22 September 2004
For years, eating disorders, particularly anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa, have been studied extensively among adolescent girls and young women. However, despite recent research revealing a significant percentage of men display behaviours related to eating disorders, their individual experiences remain relatively unstudied. Additionally, given the reality that many males usually conceal or deny having the disorder, few studies yielding in-depth accounts of their lived experiences have also not been completed. This study, however, examined, through narrative inquiry, the experiences of two young adult males who were medically diagnosed with and treated, or were presently being treated, for disordered eating. Though each was not impervious to societal and familial pressures to look and be perfect, such pressures, tragically, were exacerbated by the pronounced fear, and actual experience, of being stigmatized by helping professionals. These findings provide a preliminary understanding of the threat that disordered eating poses for males, irrespective of background and lifestyle. Aside from having implications for theory, these findings are also expected to contribute in ways that will help to inform the practices of counsellors and therapists in the field of psychology.
76

The Effects of Calorie Information on Food Selection and Intake

Girz, Laura 19 January 2010 (has links)
Proposed legislation in the United States and Canada would require calorie information to be presented on the menus/menu boards of restaurants. To test the possible impacts of such legislation, the present study examined the effects of calorie information on the food selection and intake of restrained and unrestrained eaters. Female students were presented with a menu containing two items, a salad and a pasta dish, for which calorie information was either present or absent. Results of the present study indicate that the provision of calorie information does not alter food choice but does influence the amount people eat. Although the salad and pasta contained the same number of calories, calorie information decreased consumption of pasta, but increased consumption of salad.
77

Testing Mediators of a Couple-based Eating Disorder Prevention Program

Ramirez, Ana Lorena 2012 August 1900 (has links)
Body image dissatisfaction and eating disorders are more prevalent in today’s society than ever, making the prevention of eating disorders and its symptoms crucial for women’s health. A couple-based eating disorder prevention program was developed based on the dual pathway model of eating disorders and some efficacy has been established. The current study explored the program’s mechanisms of change by testing mediators (thin ideal internalization and body dissatisfaction) expected to mediate the effects of the program on three outcome variables (dieting, negative affect, and bulimic symptoms). Although none of the mediated paths were significant, results of the study were overall consistent with previous research and provided further support for the efficacy of the prevention program. In addition to these variables, effects of the prevention on relationship variables (relationship satisfaction, attachment anxiety and avoidance, and commitment) were explored. Finally, relationship intimacy, measured by an event-contingent interaction, was found to have an effect on an important eating disorder risk factor. Implications of the present study and future directions for the prevention and treatment of eating disorders are discussed.
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Narratives of males with eating disorders

Ashuk, Ryan M. 22 September 2004 (has links)
For years, eating disorders, particularly anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa, have been studied extensively among adolescent girls and young women. However, despite recent research revealing a significant percentage of men display behaviours related to eating disorders, their individual experiences remain relatively unstudied. Additionally, given the reality that many males usually conceal or deny having the disorder, few studies yielding in-depth accounts of their lived experiences have also not been completed. This study, however, examined, through narrative inquiry, the experiences of two young adult males who were medically diagnosed with and treated, or were presently being treated, for disordered eating. Though each was not impervious to societal and familial pressures to look and be perfect, such pressures, tragically, were exacerbated by the pronounced fear, and actual experience, of being stigmatized by helping professionals. These findings provide a preliminary understanding of the threat that disordered eating poses for males, irrespective of background and lifestyle. Aside from having implications for theory, these findings are also expected to contribute in ways that will help to inform the practices of counsellors and therapists in the field of psychology.
79

Measuring eating disorder attitudes and behaviors: a reliability generalization study

Pearson, Crystal Anne 15 May 2009 (has links)
I used reliability generalization procedures to determine the mean score reliability of the Eating Disorder Inventory (EDI), the Eating Attitudes Test (EAT), and the Bulimia Test (BULIT). Reliability generalization is a type of meta-analysis used to examine the mean score reliability of a measure across studies and to explore study factors that influence mean score reliability. Score reliability estimates were included in 28.67% of 293 studies using the EDI, 36.28% of 215 studies using the EAT, and 41.46% of 41 studies utilizing the BULIT. For the EDI, mean Cronbach’s alphas for the subscales ranged from .52 to .89 and the mean estimate for the total score was .91. For the EAT-40 and EAT-26, mean estimates of internal consistency were .81 and .86 respectively. Mean estimates of internal consistency for the EAT-26 subscales ranged from .56 to .80. The mean estimate of internal consistency for the BULIT-R was .93. Overall, the mean reliability of scores on all three measures and their subscales/factors was acceptable except for the Asceticism subscale of the EDI and the Oral Control factor on the EAT-26, which had mean internal consistency estimates of .52 and .56 respectively. For the EDI, the majority of the subscales that measure specific eating disorder attitudes and behaviors, such as Bulimia and Perfectionism displayed higher score reliability in clinical eating disorder samples than in nonclinical samples. This difference was not found in the Drive for Thinness and Body Dissatisfaction subscales, perhaps because these attitudes are common in both eating disorder and nonclinical samples. Score reliability information for the EAT and BULIT was primarily reported for nonclinical samples; therefore, it is difficult to characterize the effect of type of sample on these measures. There was a tendency for mean score reliability for all the measures to be higher in the adult samples than in adolescent samples and in the female samples compared to the male samples. This study highlights the importance of assessing and reporting internal consistency every time a measure is used because reliability is affected by characteristics of the participants being examined.
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Objectification Theory and Its Relation to Disordered Eating: The Role of Feminist Attitudes and Internalization of Cultural Standards of Beauty

Clarke, Analesa N. 2009 August 1900 (has links)
The current study had three main objectives: to examine the relation between trait and state self-objectification and various eating pathology, including restricted eating; to examine the role of general and specific feminist attitudes on body dissatisfaction and trait disordered eating; and to merge two empirically supported models of eating disorders. Using a quasi-experimental research design with an elaborate cover story, one hundred and three women completed a variety of baseline measures and were assigned to one of two state self-objectifying conditions (swimsuit vs. sweater) where body image and body shame were measured at post. Additionally, following the manipulation, participants caloric intake during a snack break was measured. Results indicated that trait self objectification was associated with disordered eating symptomatology and analyses found an effect of condition on body shame, and that this effect was moderated by trait self-objectification. These results were not documented for caloric intake and body dissatisfaction, likely due to time of assessment of these variables. Also, results indicate that objectification theory and the dual pathways model merge well and that in the dual pathway, body shame may be a component of body dissatisfaction. Finally, feminist attitudes were also associated with body dissatisfaction but not with disordered eating symptoms. Implications for clinical work and future research are discussed.

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