Disordered Eating Attitudes, Anxiety, Self-Esteem and Perfectionism in Young Athletes and Non-Athletes
Eating disorders are associated with short and long-term consequences that can affect sports performance. The purposes of this study were to investigate whether female athletes, particularly gymnasts and footballers, exhibit more eating problems compared to female non-athletes, and to identify indiv...
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| author | Petisco Rodríguez, Cristina Sánchez Sánchez, Laura C. Fernández García, Rubén Sánchez Sánchez, Javier García Montes, José Manuel |
| author_facet | Petisco Rodríguez, Cristina Sánchez Sánchez, Laura C. Fernández García, Rubén Sánchez Sánchez, Javier García Montes, José Manuel |
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| description | Eating disorders are associated with short and long-term consequences that can affect sports performance. The purposes of this study were to investigate whether female athletes, particularly gymnasts and footballers, exhibit more eating problems compared to female non-athletes, and to identify individual personality characteristics including anxiety, self-esteem, and perfectionism as possible contributors to eating disorder risk. In a sample of 120 participants, 80 adolescent female athletes were compared to a control condition of 40 non-athletes (mean age 17.2 ± 2.82). Participants responded to a questionnaire package to investigate the presence of disordered eating (SCOFF) and psychological variables in relation to disordered eating symptoms or eating disorder status. Subsequently, anthropometric measures were obtained individually by trained staff. There were statistically significant differences between conditions. One of the most important results was the score in SCOFF (Mann–Whitney = 604, p < 0.05; Cohen’s d = 0.52, r = 0.25), being higher in control than in the gymnast condition. These results suggest that non-athlete female adolescents show more disturbed eating behaviours and thoughts than female adolescents from aesthetic sport modalities and, therefore, may have an enhanced risk of developing clinical eating disorders. |
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| spelling | oai:repositorio.ual.es:10835-84712023-04-12T19:21:47Z Disordered Eating Attitudes, Anxiety, Self-Esteem and Perfectionism in Young Athletes and Non-Athletes Petisco Rodríguez, Cristina Sánchez Sánchez, Laura C. Fernández García, Rubén Sánchez Sánchez, Javier García Montes, José Manuel eating disorders prevention psychological factors athletes non-athletes gymnasts footballers Eating disorders are associated with short and long-term consequences that can affect sports performance. The purposes of this study were to investigate whether female athletes, particularly gymnasts and footballers, exhibit more eating problems compared to female non-athletes, and to identify individual personality characteristics including anxiety, self-esteem, and perfectionism as possible contributors to eating disorder risk. In a sample of 120 participants, 80 adolescent female athletes were compared to a control condition of 40 non-athletes (mean age 17.2 ± 2.82). Participants responded to a questionnaire package to investigate the presence of disordered eating (SCOFF) and psychological variables in relation to disordered eating symptoms or eating disorder status. Subsequently, anthropometric measures were obtained individually by trained staff. There were statistically significant differences between conditions. One of the most important results was the score in SCOFF (Mann–Whitney = 604, p < 0.05; Cohen’s d = 0.52, r = 0.25), being higher in control than in the gymnast condition. These results suggest that non-athlete female adolescents show more disturbed eating behaviours and thoughts than female adolescents from aesthetic sport modalities and, therefore, may have an enhanced risk of developing clinical eating disorders. 2020-09-28T07:04:58Z 2020-09-28T07:04:58Z 2020-09-16 info:eu-repo/semantics/article 1660-4601 http://hdl.handle.net/10835/8471 en https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/17/18/6754 Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internacional http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess MDPI |
| spellingShingle | eating disorders prevention psychological factors athletes non-athletes gymnasts footballers Petisco Rodríguez, Cristina Sánchez Sánchez, Laura C. Fernández García, Rubén Sánchez Sánchez, Javier García Montes, José Manuel Disordered Eating Attitudes, Anxiety, Self-Esteem and Perfectionism in Young Athletes and Non-Athletes |
| title | Disordered Eating Attitudes, Anxiety, Self-Esteem and Perfectionism in Young Athletes and Non-Athletes |
| title_full | Disordered Eating Attitudes, Anxiety, Self-Esteem and Perfectionism in Young Athletes and Non-Athletes |
| title_fullStr | Disordered Eating Attitudes, Anxiety, Self-Esteem and Perfectionism in Young Athletes and Non-Athletes |
| title_full_unstemmed | Disordered Eating Attitudes, Anxiety, Self-Esteem and Perfectionism in Young Athletes and Non-Athletes |
| title_short | Disordered Eating Attitudes, Anxiety, Self-Esteem and Perfectionism in Young Athletes and Non-Athletes |
| title_sort | disordered eating attitudes, anxiety, self-esteem and perfectionism in young athletes and non-athletes |
| topic | eating disorders prevention psychological factors athletes non-athletes gymnasts footballers |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/10835/8471 |
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