Competing on All Fronts: Achievement Orientation and Disordered Eating.

Autor:	Striegel-Moore, Ruth H., Silberstein, Lisa R., Grunberg, Neil E., Rodin, Judith
Předmět:	EATING disorders WOMEN college students BODY image WORK orientations ANALYSIS of variance REGRESSION analysis DATA analysis GENDER role MULTIVARIATE analysis
Zdroj:	Sex Roles; Dec90, Vol. 23 Issue 11-12, p697-702, 6p
Abstrakt:	Strikingly high prevalence rates of symptoms of disordered eating among college women have been documented. The question arises as to whether one aspect of the college experience, achievement orientation, is associated with disordered eating. Competing hypotheses may be generated regarding the relationship between achievement orientation and disordered eating, with arguments for either a positive or negative relationship. The Work and Family Orientation Questionnaire (WOFO) and the Disordered Eating Symptoms Scale (DESS) were administered to 668 female undergraduate college students. Multivariate analysis of the WOFO subscales revealed that women with high levels of disordered eating obtained significantly higher scores on the Competitiveness subscale than women with low DESS scores. These findings support hypotheses of a positive relationship between competitiveness and disordered eating. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Databáze:	Complementary Index
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