The Satter Eating Competence Model (ecSatter) conceptualizes eating competence as having 4 components: eating attitudes, food acceptance, regulation of food intake and body weight, and management of the eating context (including family meals). According to ecSatter competent eaters are confident, comfortable, and flexible with eating and are matter-of-fact and reliable about getting enough to e...

BACKGROUND Although score reliability is a sample-dependent characteristic, researchers often only report reliability estimates from previous studies as justification for employing particular questionnaires in their research. The present study followed reliability generalization procedures to determine the mean score reliability of the Eating Disorder Inventory and its most commonly employed su...

OBJECTIVE This study was undertaken to compare ethnic and gender differences regarding self-esteem and various disordered eating attitudes and behaviors among elite college athletes. METHOD A total of 1445 student athletes from 11 Division I schools were surveyed using a 133-item questionnaire. RESULTS White female athletes reported significantly lower self-esteem than Black female, Black m...

Purpose: This study aimed to examine the relationships between adolescents’ eating disorder attitudes and their perceptions of the feeding practices that their parents/caregivers currently use. Methods: Boys and girls (N=528) aged 13-15 completed self-report measures of their levels of eating psychopathology and their parents’ current feeding practices and reported their own height and weight. ...

Objective: This study aimed to investigate Australian healthcare practitioners' knowledge and attitudes toward binge eating disorder (BED). Method: Participants were 175 healthcare professionals, who were randomized to one of two conditions that assessed diagnostic and treatment knowledge of either comorbid BED and obesity or only obesity via case vignette, as well as weight bias toward obese p...

Objective: Exercise dependence and eating disorders are growing up among university students. This study aimed to compare exercise dependence, attitude, orthorexic tendencies between regular students student athletes. Material Methods: A total of 168 students, 66 whom were athletes participated in this study. Participants completed Dependence Scale-21 (EDS-21), Eating Attitude Test-40 (EAT-40),...

OBJECTIVE Pathological gambling (PG) and eating disorders (ED) rarely co-occur. We explored the prevalence of lifetime PG in ED, compared severity of ED symptoms, personality traits, and psychopathological profiles across individuals with ED and PG (ED+PG) and without PG (ED-PG). Finally, we assessed the incremental predictive value of gender on the presentation of a comorbid PG. METHOD A tot...

Objective: This study aimed to evaluate the perceived stres level and its relationship with healthy nutrition attitude body weight in adults. Material Methods: descriptive epidemiological was conducted a total of 600 adult individuals who agreed fill out online questionnaire. Sociodemographic characteristics, stress levels nutritional attitudes were determined 25-question questionnaire applied ...

Bulimia nervosa and anorexia are among the most common chronic, psychosocial pathological eating disorders. Fear of obesity is main element in both diseases. Restricted food intake associated with extreme weight loss characteristic anorexia. characterized by repeated episodes uncontrolled unrestricted followed starvation, self-induced vomiting, or laxatives. Eating disorders have severe consequ...

Background: The measure of Expressed Emotion (EE) has been extensively used for the investigation of family interaction in different clinical populations. However, very few clinical data exist which clarify the nature of the relationship between family EE and eating disorders, as well as the prognostic value of the EE variables.Objective: The purpose of this study is to determine if family EE p...