Anorexia and bulimia risk as function of anxiety and puberty in Baja California-Mexico college students
| Autor: | Gisela Pineda-García, Silvia Platas Acevedo, Virginia Velasco Ariza, Gilda Gómez-Peresmitré, Vicente Arámburo Vizcarra |
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| Rok vydání: | 2014 |
| Předmět: |
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business.industry Beck Anxiety Inventory Puberty High anxiety Questionnaire Anorexia ansiedad medicine.disease anxiety Psychiatry and Mental health Clinical Psychology Eating disorders bulimia anorexia Public university Medicine Anxiety medicine.symptom business Pubertad Puberty onset Clinical psychology risk |
| Zdroj: | Revista Mexicana de Trastornos Alimentarios. 5(2):80-90 |
| ISSN: | 2007-1523 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/s2007-1523(14)72003-8 |
| Popis: | Identifying the risk of eating disorders as well as associated variables in nonclinical samples is fundamental to prevention. The main objective of this study was to compare bulimia and anorexia risk depending on anxiety degree and the age of puberty onset in university students. A non experimental transversal explanatory study was carried out using a non probabilistic sample of 420 students from a public university at Ensenada, B.C. Age of participants ranged between 18 and 30 years old (59% female, 41% male) in Ensenada, B.C. Timing of puberty was measured using The Food and Health Questionaire (Gómez Peresmitré), especifically the menarquia /spermarquiaself-report, as well as the a Risk Factors Associated with Eating Disorders Scale (EFRATA) ; The Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI) was also administered to all students. Among the main findings is that risk of bulimia increases with high anxiety degree and untypical puberty onset. Anorexia risk increases only with high degrees of anxiety. Results are in accordance to previous literature and are discussed within that frame. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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