PMID: 3214831Dec 1, 1988Paper

Eating attitudes as related to demographic and personality characteristics: a high school survey

Canadian Journal of Psychiatry. Revue Canadienne De Psychiatrie
P ChandaranaN Benson

Abstract

A survey of 577 high school students was conducted to assess attitudes toward eating and their relationship to demographic and personality characteristics. Students completed a demographic questionnaire, and Eating Attitude Test (EAT-26) and the Basic Personality Inventory (A-BPI). When a cut-off score of 20 on EAT-26 was applied, overall prevalence of disordered eating attitude was found to be 7.5%. Groups scoring in pathological versus normal ranges showed no significant difference in mean age, socioeconomic status or race. The former group reported significantly shorter height and lower body weight. Of the subjects, 6.06% reported weight below the 10th percentile. This subgroup did not vary from those above the 10th percentile on sociodemographic and psychopathological variables, nor in prevalence of abnormal eating attitudes. Analysis of the A-BPI data showed subjects with abnormal eating attitudes had increased psychopathology in several areas, with greater neurotic tendencies, lower self-esteem and higher levels of deviant thinking and behaviour.

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Jul 7, 2011·Journal of the American College of Nutrition·Yueching WongWei Lin
Jun 1, 1991·The British Journal of Psychiatry : the Journal of Mental Science·S K Chaturvedi
Oct 1, 1995·Canadian Journal of Psychiatry. Revue Canadienne De Psychiatrie·P Chandarana
Jul 8, 1998·Canadian Journal of Psychiatry. Revue Canadienne De Psychiatrie·R GeistM Heinmaa

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