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Disordered eating behaviour and attitudes towards weight and shape in polish Women
Author(s) -
WlodarczykBisaga Katarzyna,
Dolan Bridget,
McCluskey Sara,
Lacey Hubert
Publication year - 1995
Publication title -
european eating disorders review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.511
H-Index - 67
eISSN - 1099-0968
pISSN - 1072-4133
DOI - 10.1002/erv.2400030403
Subject(s) - depression (economics) , anxiety , eating disorders , disordered eating , indigenous , eating attitudes test , clinical psychology , psychiatry , psychology , medicine , test (biology) , ecology , biology , economics , macroeconomics , paleontology
Two groups of Polish women, 198 factory workers and 196 students completed the EAT‐26, the BITE (Bulimia Investigatory Test‐Edinburgh) and the HAD (Hospital Anxiety and Depression Questionnaire). Group comparison showed that the students had significantly higher levels of disordered eating attitudes and bulimic symptoms. In the students, 16 per cent scored above clinical cut‐off point on the EAT and 69 per cent on the BITE (workers 3 per cent and 2 per cent respectively). The EAT scores of the students were significantly positively correlated with ratings of anxiety and depression whilst for the working women there was no significant association. We discuss how recent socio‐cultural and political changes may be pertinent to our findings, yet request caution when imposing Western classifications without investigating culturally indigenous categories of illness.