Evaluating gender bias in an eating disorder risk assessment questionnaire for athletes
| Autor: | Vivienne M. Hazzard, Belinda L. Needham, Kendrin R. Sonneville, Kieran A Gallagher, Traci L. Carson |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Adult
Male Female athlete triad 050103 clinical psychology Universities media_common.quotation_subject Sexism Population Stereotype Risk Assessment Feeding and Eating Disorders Young Adult 03 medical and health sciences Sex Factors 0302 clinical medicine Surveys and Questionnaires medicine Humans 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Risk factor Disordered eating education media_common education.field_of_study biology Athletes digestive oral and skin physiology 05 social sciences Cognition General Medicine medicine.disease biology.organism_classification 030227 psychiatry Psychiatry and Mental health Clinical Psychology Eating disorders Female Stereotyped Behavior Psychology Clinical psychology |
| Zdroj: | Eating Disorders. 29:29-41 |
| ISSN: | 1532-530X 1064-0266 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/10640266.2019.1613846 |
| Popis: | Due to stigma, eating disorders are under-researched, underdiagnosed and undertreated among men. This is particularly pertinent among athletes, as athletic goals are a major risk factor for disordered eating in men. This gender stereotype may be reinforced by eating disorder risk assessment tools that better reflect female symptoms. We examine an eating disorder risk assessment questionnaire in a population of athletes to assess both (1) gender bias in individual items and (2) gender differences on a cognitive and behavioral subscale, identified through a factor analysis. Controlling for eating disorder risk, we found that female gender significantly predicted high risk scores on four items; male gender significantly predicted high risk scores on four other items. We also found that women were more likely to score above the median on a cognitive subscale than men with the same level of eating disorder risk, while men were more likely to score above the median on a behavioral subscale. These results may be applied practically to allow eating disorder risk assessment tools to better capture eating disorder risk independent of gender. These methods may be applied to other questionnaires and other social identities, to expand the scope of eating disorder research and treatment. |
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