Eating disorder symptoms in young females seem to be associated with obligatory attitudes to exercise rather than with exercise quantity.

According to the defense-defeat model of stress, the defense reaction is associated with behavioral activation and the defeat reaction with behavioral inhibition. The aim of this study was to investigate the associations of stress-induced changes of physical activity to certain psychological and behavioral problems among young females. A random sample of 726 females, aged 18-23 years, responded on a self-report questionnaire. Groups were defined by the given response on an item addressing changed levels of physical activity during periods of emotional stress. Groups of increased, decreased and unchanged drive to activity were compared regarding the results on various items. Subjects reporting stress-induced behavioral activation reported significantly higher amounts of habitual physical exercise and activity than did compared groups. They were also more prone to engage in compensatory activities against being overweight. Conversely, subjects reporting stress-induced behavioral inhibition during emotional stress reported more frequent depressive symptoms. Stress-induced changes of physical activity seem to be associated with certain patterns of emotional and behavioral problems among young females.

Perception of coercion. A pilot study using the Swedish version of the Admission Experience Scale. Nord J Psychiatry 1997;51:The Admission Experience Scale (AES) has been translated into Swedish and tested in a small pilot study comprising 20 patients. As some difficulties wen found, the AES was complemented with a structured clinical interview. The modified scale was used on 75 patients, voluntarily or involuntarily admined to a psychiatric clinic. The mean score of the AES was 4.h3.8, with a higher total score for involuntarily committed patients. A principal component analysis was performed, and four factors with an eigenvalue above 1.0 wefc found. The four factors cover different aspects of the experience of admission. Three individual items dealing with force and h a t showed a significant difference between voluntarily and involuntarily admitted patients. Subjects and methods PatientsThe series comprises 75 consecutive inpatients from the Department of Psychiatry, Uppsala University Hospital, 24 men and 51 women with a mean age of 46.52 16.1 1 years. Sixty-seven of the patients were voluntarily admitted, and 8 were committed for treatment.All included subjects gave informed consent to participate in the study. EthicsThe study was approved by the local research ethical committee. Informed consent was given by all patients included in the study. Admission Experience Scale (AES)The original AES was constructed by Gardener et al. (7). It comprises 15 items, answered yes or no.Nord J Psychiatry Downloaded from informahealthcare.com by University of California Irvine on 11/04/14For personal use only.

femenino con problemas de sueño, incluso tras ajustar por status psicológico. También son frecuentes en mujeres jóvenes síntomas de trastornos de la conducta alimentaria (TCA) tales como: preocupación por el peso, restricción en la ingesta, dietas frecuentes, atracones y conductas purgativas (Shefer 1987, Moore 1988, Cas