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1. Introduction:Food behaviour can assume particularly problematic connotations during adolescence, especially in relation to two important areas of development: self-perception, and social relationships among peers (Vandereycken, 1996; Faccio, 2013). Every aspect of social adaptation and personality is influenced by adolescents' perceptions of their own bodies and the effect this has on others. Body image is then experienced with greater intensity for the reason that, during adolescence, alongside radical physical changes, a capacity for introspection is accentuated: comparison with peers from the same age group becomes more intense and everyone tends to compare themselves to an ideal physical model (Bosma & Kunnen, 2001, Confalonieri & Grazzani Gavazzi, 2000). Many adolescents, even though they have undergone normal development, discover that they cannot accept their bodies as they are, and similarly feel that they are not accepted by others. While, as a child in previous years, it was easy to adapt to slow physical changes, it is not so easy in adolescence to feel that this body which has undergone such rapid changes in dimension, proportions, sexual characteristics, belongs to oneself. It can feel "alien" this body which has undergone such rapid changes in size, to which the adolescent must become acquainted, value and get to know, so much so that every little anomaly, although it has been there since infancy, now assumes a different meaning. Elements such as a decrease, or more often an increase, in normal weight, insufficient muscular development, too small breasts, or external concerns such as the size and shape of the nose or the ears, can lead to a sense of inadequacy; whatever makes someone appear "different" from the norm is experienced as an inferiority complex (Attie, Brooks-Gunn 1989; Faccio, Centomo, & Mininni, 2011; Faccio, Belloni & Castelnuovo, 2012; Faccio et al, 2012; Faccio et al. 2013).2. Problem Statement:Many adolescents who feel unhappy about their physical appearance (Bonino, 1999, Bonino, Cattelino, 2002). Even when they don't experience eating problems directly, young people compare themselves with others and with what they see in the media; these comparisons form the basis of the behaviour they adopt towards peers, especially when such behaviour is highly problematic. Furthermore, the power to influence and to condition peers has a decisive role in making certain conduct desirable; for these reasons, it becomes strategically important in terms of disease prevention, to understand the "naive theories" used to explain the development of eating disorders in adolescents' comments. The literature offers a wide range of theories and research on eating disorders and body-image disease among adolescents (Busse, 1996, Cuzzolaro, 1997, Castiglioni, Faccio, Veronese & Bell, 2012, Faccio, 2013; Cipolletta, & Faccio, 2013; Faccio, Bordin, & Cipolletta, 2013). According to Bonino, Cattelino and Ciairano (2003), disturbed eating behaviour is very widespread but also varied: some adolescents make use of food as a "relief valve", with a consolatory function (eating excessively even in the absence of organic need, eating when not hungry or already satiated to cope with negative emotional states, such as anxiety, depression or boredom, etc.), others diet or eliminate food by compensatory behaviours, and still others display all of these behaviours together. In general, it is a predominantly female phenomenon; with the exception of the consolatory function, also frequently employed by males, females make significantly greater recourse of laxatives and obsessive physical movement and food-elimination behaviour (Braet, 1996).Moreover, problematic eating behavior increase in girls with age, up to involving around a quarter of the female at 18-19 years (Faccio, 2006). In addition to gender and age, there are other variables related to the type of school attended: there are more food-related problems in students attending vocational schools and high schools in Social Science. …

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