A recent and major focus in the psychology of men and masculinity has been the attempt to better understand men's experiences of disordered eating. Previously, research with women suggested emotional self-denial in the context of interpersonal relationships, self-silencing, predicted disordered eating. Based on evidence suggesting that both men and women share the same basic psychological aspects underpinning disordered eating, the current study sought to document a relationship between self-silencing and disordered eating. Measures of the psychological aspects of disordered eating (Eating Disorders Inventory) and the standard measure of self-silencing (Silencing the Self Scale) were administered and analyzed in a non-clinical, collegiate sample of 82 men and 140 women between the ages of 18–22 years. Results show that self-silencing predicted disordered eating equally well in both men and women, and the magnitude of the relationship was large (r = .63, p < .001; r = .75, p < .001). Canonical correlations suggest that the factor structures of the measures that assessed these relationships were similar for both men and women. Implications of these findings for further research and practice are discussed.

Scholars have emphasized the importance of fathers in child development with regard to academic performance, emotional expression, and psychological adjustment. This study builds on that literature and describes the development of an empirically derived measure of father hunger, the emotional and psychological longing that a person has for a father who has been physically, emotionally, or psychologically distant. Study 1 employed 105 undergraduates who responded to 41 father-hunger items and 4 freeresponse questions. Exploratory factor analysis yielded 1 primary factor with 11 items. Study 2 employed 240 undergraduates whose responses supported the scale's 1-factor structure, convergent validity with other validated scales, and test-retest reliability across 14 days. The Father Hunger Scale holds promise in advancing research on the role of fathers throughout child and adult development, as well as on the causes, correlates, and sequelae of unrequited father hunger.

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