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This study is the continuation of a broader eating disorder study with a focus on males, which examines the influence of body image, sociocultural attitudes, appearance anxiety, and depression on disordered eating behaviors among college students. Based on EAT-26 scores, 10.5% of males were at risk of an eating disorder. Body image dissatisfaction was almost as common among males (65.2%) as females (68.6%) and BMI was not a significant predictor of dissatisfaction. Among participants who reported dissatisfaction with their bodies, eating disorder risk was higher among females than males. While there were differences between ABOUT THE AUTHORSThis study is a result of the synergy among faculty, who have been working together to examine disordered eating, not only to contribute to the knowledge base on the subject, but also to help their students more effectively.

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This study described the association between students' use of a university recreation center and concomitant achieved cumulative grade point average (GPA). Data were derived retrospectively from undergraduate student records from 12 consecutive months ( N = 6,098). Results showed that in general, use of the recreation center on campus was beneficial to a student's academic performance, where female students who visited the facility more often had higher GPAs on average. When GPAs were considered categorically for all students, however, those with the very lowest academic performance were characterized by a very high pattern of use, indicating that there may be a threshold benefit to center utilization.