The eating attitudes test: Comparative analysis of female and male students at the Public Ballet School of Berlin

Abstract

Differentiated examination of eating attitudes and behaviours of female and male German ballet school students with particular reference to their age and analysis of common points with and differences from female Anorexia nervosa (A.n.) patients. The Eating Attitudes Test (EAT-40) was used. Male and female adolescent students of a ballet school and a high school as well as anorectic patients participated in this study. EAT totals exhibited by female and male ballet school students were higher with significance than those recorded from high school students. EAT totals > 30 were reached by 21.6% of female ballet school students but by no male ballet school student at all. In the context of certain EAT items, a number of differences are described between female ballet school students, on the one hand, and female A.n. patients, on the other. No case was identifiable which would satisfy ICD-10 criteria for Anorexia nervosa. Attitudes and behaviours of adolescent female and male ballet dancers toward eating and their own body should be judged with due consideration of their specific living conditions.

Aesthetic Sports as High-Risk Contexts for Eating Disorders — Young Elite Dancers and Gymnasts Perspectives

“…Neumärker, Bettle, Dudeck, & Neumärker, 1998;Sundgot-FRANCISCO, ALARCÃO, AND NARCISO Borgen, 1994;Toro et al, 2005). Among gymnasts, this pressure comes essentially from coaches, who often make negative comments about eating, monitoring of athletes' weight, and advice on food restriction.…”

Prevalência de sintomas de anorexia nervosa e insatisfação com a imagem corporal em adolescentes do sexo feminino do Município de Florianópolis, Santa Catarina, Brasil

“…Sobre as prevalências internacionais, Neumärker et al 24 investigaram adolescentes do sexo feminino de escolas de balé (n = 37) e do ensino médio (n = 95) com idades entre 13 e 18 anos, em Berlim, Alemanha. A prevalência de sintomas de anorexia nervosa no grupo de estudantes de balé foi 21,6% e no grupo do ensino médio foi 7,4%.…”

Prevalence and sport‐related predictors of disturbed eating attitudes and behaviors: Moderating effects of sex and age

“…This is surprising given that a large proportion of adolescent boys and girls are known to practice sport in unstructured and noncompetitive contexts (Mota & Esculcas, ; Santos et al., ). Fourth, most of the previous studies examined prevalence rates of DEAB and their association with sport‐related characteristics among separate sample of boys or girls, and the few studies including mixed‐gender samples (e.g., Neumärker et al., ; Ravaldi et al., ; Filaire et al., ; Rouveix et al., ; Rosendahl et al., ; Martinsen et al., ; Van Durme et al., ) still conducted their analyses separately without formally verifying whether the estimated relations were significantly moderated by gender (i.e., whether the relations significantly differed according to gender). Similarly, possible developmental differences, illustrated by a significant moderating effect of age, were completely ignored in the context of previous studies, possibly because most of them relied on age‐range limited samples.…”