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This study investigates whether there are certain age groups in college that are more susceptible to eating problems and the contributing factors for eating disorders. The participants were 144 college women divided into traditional and non-traditional age groups. The EDI-2, BSI, RSE, and additional items were administered. The results show that non-traditional age college women were as likely to have eating disorder symptoms and more likely to possess body dissatisfaction than traditional age college students. The data support body dissatisfaction, aging concerns, perfectionism, depression, anxiety, and having children as potential risk factors for eating disturbances. This study suggests that there are high prevalence rates of eating disturbances in all college female age groups, but that the highest prevalence may actually be in older women. It is imperative that clinicians and others working in colleges realize these issues can affect students of all ages.

This study explored the use of spiritual counseling with patients with eating disorders (ED), with the goal of better understanding the relationship between spirituality and patient recovery. The researcher wanted to gain insight into how patients' spiritual practices and experiences may influence treatment processes and outcomes in eating disorder recovery. The researcher collected interview data at the Center for Change, a patient treatment center for women with eating disorders. Open-ended survey questions from forty seven respondents from a diverse range of clients with different religious and ethnic backgrounds, living in different national regions were qualitatively analyzed. The researcher also followed up with twelve of the women for in-depth interviews. Qualitative data analysis methods were used in an effort to extract patterns and themes from the interview transcripts. It was discovered that some patients did believe that spirituality played a large role in their treatment and recovery. There was a small minority who believed that spirituality and religion should be left out of treatment and recovery. Some of the participants believed that spiritual practices, interventions and experiences do facilitate eating disorder treatment and recovery. Among the spiritual components that helped were praying, spiritual meditation, and connection with nature. Some participants also suggested that religion and spirituality were intertwined with eating disorder etiology, citing that their experience of perfectionism related to their religious and spiritual community in which they felt the need to be thin. Some also suggested that religious fasting fed into their eating disorder mentality. Findings also suggested that eating disorders can undermine religion and spirituality. Some participants suggested that the eating disorders became their religion. Some participants suggested that their eating disorder may have been fueled by a single or ongoing religious experience or activity where bullying took place. Others believed that religion and spirituality negatively impacted treatment and recovery. The majority of participants believed that religion and spirituality had a positive impact on their healing. When used appropriately religion and spirituality in connection with eating disorder treatment and recovery can have a profound effect.

#Thinspiration is an online trend that depicts thin-ideal media content specifically found on the social medium Instagram. The images found under the #thinspiration intend to inspire weight loss while encouraging and/or glorifying dangerous behaviors that are usually attributed to eating disorders including anorexia nervosa (AN), bulimia nervosa (BN) and eating disorder not otherwise specified (EDNOS). This study provides a content analysis of thinspiration imagery on the popular social networking site Instagram. A set of 300 randomly selected images was coded. Images tended to objectify women and sexualize them with a focus on bony and extremely thin women. Results seemed to point to harmful effects and users is the #thinspiration community view and contribute sexually suggestive content that objectifies females. Please be cautious when reading this paper as it includes media that could possibly be a trigger to those dealing with body image or eating disorders.

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An introduction to the Hedonic Overeating-Questionnaire (HEDO-Q), providing a brief trait assessment of hedonic overeating, operationalizing food-related wanting, liking, and dyscontrol. Items and instructions for the German HEDO-Q and its English translation are provided.

This research study examined the prevalence rates and longitudinal course of eating disorder risk among undergraduate females at BYU, and compared the identified prevalence rates at BYU with identified rates at other colleges and universities. Almost 2,000 undergraduate females, in three cohort groups, filled out the Eating Attitudes Test (EAT) once a semester for four to eight semesters. Clinical cut-off scores were used to determine what percentage of participants were at high risk for eating disordered behaviors and symptomology. Overall eating disorder risk prevalence rates at BYU ranged from 9-11%. These rates were significantly lower than identified rates at other colleges and universities. The results also showed notable decreases in the percentages of women who fell in the at-risk range as participants progressed through their college years. Freshmen women had the highest risk for disordered eating behaviors.

The Eating Survey is a new screening instrument for adolescent eating disturbances. The purpose of this study was to empirically examine how the Eating Survey functions as a total screening instrument and to find a clinical cutoff score for the current 17 items. The participants were 2,569 non-clinical adolescents with a comparative sample of 41 inpatient adolescents aged 14-17. More specifically, this study examined the age and gender differences of the 2,569 non-clinical adolescent males and females. It also compared the 1,662 non-clinical females to a sample of 41 inpatient females. Specificity and sensitivity analyses were conducted to find the most efficient clinical cutoff score while maintaining a balanced approach and a high efficiency rating. The findings of the current study suggests that the Eating Survey appears to function as expected with analysis results showing trends similar to current research. A clinical cutoff score of 51 was found to be the most efficient cutoff while keeping a balanced approach regarding specificity and sensitivity. With a clinical cutoff score of 51, a 14% at-risk base rate was found, which matches both research literature and other screening instruments.

This research examined the relationship between eating attitudes and body image dissatisfaction using the Eating Attitudes Test (EAT) and the Body Shape Questionnaire (BSQ). Three cohorts of almost 2,000 undergraduate females from Brigham Young University were given the EAT and BSQ twice a year for two to four years, depending upon their year of entrance to BYU. The data collected were analyzed using correlational statistics. Results indicated that a high positive correlation between the EAT and BSQ existed across semesters and cohorts.