Hausenblas and Mack (1999) Social physique anxiety and eating disorder correlates among female athletic and nonathletic populations

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Social physique anxiety and eating disorder correlates among female athletic and nonathletic populations

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CONTRIBUTORS:

	Author:	Hausenblas, H. A. (University of Florida)
	Author:	Mack, D. E.

JOURNAL:

Journal of Sport Behavior (JSB), 22(4), 502 - 513.

YEAR:

1999

PUB TYPE:

Journal Article

SUBJECT(S):

woman; athlete; non-athlete; comparative-study; body-composition; social-approval; eating-disorder; diving

DISCIPLINE:

No discipline assigned

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https://secure.sportquest.com/su.cfm?articleno=S-158070&title=S-158070

LANGUAGE:

English

PUB ID:

103-343-617 (Last edited on 2002/02/27 18:44:14 US/Mountain)

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ABSTRACT:
Leary and his colleagues (1994) have suggested that eating pathologies stem in part from self-presentational concerns involving the physique. Due to the demands of the sport, female divers may have strong physical self-presentational concerns and be at-risk for developing eating pathologies. The purpose of the present study was to examine physical self-presentation (i.e., social physique anxiety) and eating disorder correlates among female divers. To this end, a sample of 36 elite female divers were compared to an athletic control group (i.e., lacrosse, volleyball, & soccer; n = 39) and a nonathletic control group (n = 39) on the attitudinal, behavioral, and psychological subscales of the Eating Disorder Inventory-2 (EDI-2; Garner, 1991) and the Social Physique Anxiety Scale (SPAS; Hart, Leary, & Rejeski, 1989). A one-way ANCOVA with Body Mass Index as the covariate revealed that the divers had significantly lower SPAS scores (M = 30.69, SD = 8.49) compared to the athletic control group (M = 37.53, SD = 8.78) and the nonathletic control group (M = 38.84, SD = 9.88), F(2,106) = 3.88, p < .05. In contrast, a one-way MANCOVA with Body Mass Index as the covariate revealed that the divers, the athletic group, and the nonathletic control group did not differ significantly on the EDI-2 subscales, Wilks's Lambda = .85, F(16,45) = .95, ns.

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