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Sexual experience and eating problems in female undergraduates
Author(s) -
Calam Rachel M.,
Slade Peter D.
Publication year - 1989
Publication title -
international journal of eating disorders
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.785
H-Index - 138
eISSN - 1098-108X
pISSN - 0276-3478
DOI - 10.1002/1098-108x(198907)8:4<391::aid-eat2260080402>3.0.co;2-p
Subject(s) - psychology , sexual abuse , affect (linguistics) , eating disorders , developmental psychology , population , association (psychology) , clinical psychology , human factors and ergonomics , poison control , demography , psychotherapist , medicine , environmental health , communication , sociology
Interrelationships between problems associated with eating and sexual experience were examined in a nonclinic population. The Eating Attitudes Test and a Sexual Events Questionnaire were used with a sample of 130 female undergraduates. The data confirmed the hypothesis that there is a significant association between unwanted sexual experience and eating problems. It is suggested that sexual abuse may act as one of a number of setting conditions for the development of eating problems and that intrafamilial and extrafamilial experiences may differentially affect the type of symptomatology exhibited.