Eating Disorders - Psychology
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Accuracy of self-reported weight and height among women with eating disorders: a replication and extension study.

30 Aug 2009 OBJECTIVE: Self-reported height and weight data are commonly reported within eating disorders research, and often used clinically. The aims of this study are to demonstrate the accuracy of self-reported height and weight among a group of women with ... Read more...

Investigating the role of attachment in social comparison theories of eating disorders within a non-clinical female population.

30 Aug 2009 OBJECTIVE: The present study aimed to integrate attachment theory and sociocultural theory as predictors of disordered eating, thereby combining two previously distinct literatures in order to provide a more comprehensive model of eating disorder ... Read more...

Risk and protective factors for disturbed eating in adolescent girls - aspects of perfectionism and attitudes to eating and weight.

30 Aug 2009 The aim of this study was to longitudinally examine the role of personal standards, self-evaluation, perceived benefits of thinness and attitudes to eating and weight in the development of healthy versus disturbed eating in adolescent girls. In a ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Eating Disorders - Psychology'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Accuracy of self-reported weight and height among women with eating disorders: a replication and extension study. 30 Aug 2009
• Investigating the role of attachment in social comparison theories of eating disorders within a non-clinical female population. 30 Aug 2009
• Risk and protective factors for disturbed eating in adolescent girls - aspects of perfectionism and attitudes to eating and weight. 30 Aug 2009
• Appraisal of caregiving burden, expressed emotion and psychological distress in families of people with eating disorders: a systematic review. 30 Aug 2009
• Perfectionism and eating attitudes in Portuguese students: a longitudinal study. 30 Aug 2009
• A 4-year prospective study of eating disorder NOS compared with full eating disorder syndromes. 30 Aug 2009
• Effect of perceived anonymity in assessments of eating disordered behaviors and attitudes. 30 Aug 2009
• Changes in body weight, body composition, and eating attitudes in high school wrestlers. 30 Jul 2009
• Childhood trauma as a predictor of eating psychopathology and its mediating variables in patients with eating disorders. 29 Jun 2009
• Eating disorders: a basic emotion perspective. 29 Jun 2009
• Eating disorders and emotions. 29 Jun 2009
• Eating disorders and multi-level models of emotion: an integrated model. 29 Jun 2009
• Shame, pride and eating disorders. 29 Jun 2009
• An exploration of the main sources of shame in an eating-disordered population. 29 Jun 2009
• Perception of threat from emotions and its role in poor emotional expression within eating pathology. 29 Jun 2009
• Mental representations of attachment in eating disorders: a pilot study using the Adult Attachment Interview. 29 Jun 2009
• We are what we (think we) eat. 29 Jun 2009
• Meta-analysis on drugs in people with eating disorders. 29 Jun 2009
• Drop-out from treatment for the eating disorders: a problem for clinicians and researchers. 29 Jun 2009
• Personality dimensions among women with an eating disorder: towards reconceptualizing DSM. 29 Jun 2009

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Technical information about 'Eating Disorders'

Definition: A group of disorders characterized by physiological and psychological disturbances in appetite or food intake.

Descriptor UI: D001068

Alternative terms: Eating Disorders; Eating Disorder; Appetite Disorders; Appetite Disorder;

Related Mesh Headings: Obesity; Thinness;

Allowable Qualifiers: blood; cerebrospinal fluid; chemically induced; classification; complications; congenital; diagnosis; diet therapy; drug therapy; economics; embryology; enzymology; ethnology; etiology; genetics; history; immunology; metabolism; microbiology; mortality; nursing; epidemiology; parasitology; pathology; physiopathology; prevention & control; psychology; radiography; radionuclide imaging; radiotherapy; rehabilitation; surgery; therapy; urine; veterinary; ultrasonography; virology;

Tree Number: F03.375;

Online Note: use EATING DISORDERS to search APPETITE DISORDERS 1966-88

History Note: 89; was APPETITE DISORDERS 1963-88

Technical Notes: in children, use FEEDING AND EATING DISORDERS OF CHILDHOOD if related to mental disorder