Starving For Control : Eating Disorders

Party being interviewed in this article is Angela Lee Duckwork Ph.D. Dr, Duckwork is an Associate Professor in Department of Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania

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The sample for this study consisted of 222 participants who were second year psychology students from the University of Newcastle. All students were participating as part of a course requirement and all had given their consent to participating in the study.

The materials used for this study included PsychMate Student Version 2.0 (St. James, Walter Schneider and Amy Eschman.) Psychology Software Tools, Inc. Along with the PsychMate software, a computer provided by Queens College was used in order to successfully complete the study.

Ashley B. Batastini is an Assistant Professor in the Psychology Department at the University of Southern

The subject of this report is Sarah Hix, a junior in 2nd period AP Psychology. Based on these naturalistic observations, some conclusions were met.

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102 students, 72 females, and 16 males and 14 who did not identify in upper division psychology classes from Missouri Southern State University participated in my experiment in return for extra credit. The age of the participants ranged from 19-74 years old with a mean of 25.53 (SD=9.06).

Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Lauren Lago, Department of Psychology, University of Central Oklahoma, 100 N. University Drive, Edmond, OK 73034. Email:llago@uco.edu

Participant included in this study were 24 university students (50% females), recruited from introductory psychology and health courses at Edith Cowan University. The age of the participants ranged from 18 to 45 years (M= 30.95; SD= 8.60). The students volunteered when asked by the experimenters during class lectures.

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267 participants (194 females, 73 males, mean age = 20.98 years) were recruited from a second year psychology class. Participants were tested in sixteen sessions in groups of up to twenty-four, supervised by an experimenter, and gave informed consent.

This year we covered a plethora of very helpful and useful information that will stick me for my lifetime and help me and others better them self’s but something that was really interesting to me that caught my attention was when we talked about Weight Control, and Eating Disorders. This serious issue drew me in because I’ve had friends that dealt with this growing up so it hit close to me. I have always thought I had to fit an image as well I never wanted to be too big or to small so I constantly try to stay in shape and watch what I eat and sometimes the thoughts would get to demanding and they would almost take up your time thinking about it so being informed was very helpful and cleared up a lot of things I was unsure of. What I have

There is no question that our whole world today has been having problems with malnutrition and lack of physical activity. Unfortunately, it is extremely rare to go somewhere without seeing someone who suffers with obesity or some type of eating disorder. Authorities actually find it to be one of the economy’s biggest problems. According to a chart found on Gale Opposing Viewpoints in Context, from the years 1976 to now, children all around the world continue to eat unhealthy diets with an obesity percentage of 17.5 in 2006, when the percentage used to be at a low 5.0, and the issue is only continuing to become worse. A lot of people eventually form some type of eating disorder according the article, Gale Encyclopedia of Public Health: Eating Disorders, “rates for anorexia nervosa were .3% in men and 0.9% in women; for bulimia nervosa, 0.5% in men and 1.5% in women; and for binge eating disorder, 2% in men and 3.5% in women,” while more than one-third of the United States, or more than 71 million people, are obese. As a society we have to realize that this is becoming a bigger issue than we think when thousands of people are dying each year and it is time to start being good role models for our future generation. Their elders and advertisements, that we seem to find so harmless when they really are, are influencing our upcoming generations. What can we do to help our society and future, and become a healthier world so we are not living unhealthier longer?

We conducted an experiment with a total of 100 undergraduate students, including 64 females, 36 males, enrolled in a required Research Methods psychology course (64% of participants were female and 36% of participants were male). On average, participants were 20.21 (± .068) years old. Participants were, on average, in their 5.35th (± .097) semester. Subjects were also found to have an average GPA of 3.313 (± .417).