The Relationship Between Sport Type, Body Dissatisfaction, and Eating Disorder Risk in Female Collegiate Athletes
Location
Turner Gymnasium
Access Type
Campus Access Only
Start Date
4-17-2024 12:00 PM
End Date
4-17-2024 1:15 PM
College
College of Health Sciences
Department
Athletic Training
Keywords
female athletes, division III, sport type, body dissatisfaction, eating disorders
Abstract
Currently, disordered eating and negative body satisfaction has been prevalent in female athletes. Disordered eating can be mistaken as being synonymous with an eating disorder. Disordered eating occurs when someone did not have a regular eating habit, intentionally missed meals, engaged in prolonged fasting, used dieting pills and/or diuretics, and was not diagnosed through the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (DSM-V).
Over one-third of Division I female athletes self-reported having an eating disorder such as anorexia nervosa and bulimia compared to female non-athletes. However, there has been limited research conducted on Division III female athletes and sports including non-aesthetic sports such as basketball, field hockey, golf, lacrosse, soccer, softball, tennis, track and field, and volleyball. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to determine if there is a relationship between sport type, body image dissatisfaction, and eating disorder risk in female athletes. Participants (n=48 female athletes) from one NCAA Division III sponsored athletic department completed two questionnaires, the Eating Attitudes Test (EAT-26) and Multidimensional Body Self Relations Questionnaire (MBSRQ) and its subsets. 16 track and field, 10 cross country, 6 swimming, 5 equestrian, 4 lacrosse, 4 field hockey, 2 soccer, and 2 softball athletes. A Mann-Whitney U test was run in SPSS. The test demonstrated a rejection of the null hypothesis for the MBSRQ eating disorders inventory- body dissatisfaction scale with a statistical significance of 0.10 with an alpha level of 0.05. The independent variables were sport type (aesthetic versus non aesthetic). Where the dependent variables were the two questionnaires: EAT-26 and MBSRQ.
Faculty Mentor(s)
Dr. Debbie Bradney, DPE, ATC, ACSM Dr. Tom Bowman, PhD, ATC
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The Relationship Between Sport Type, Body Dissatisfaction, and Eating Disorder Risk in Female Collegiate Athletes
Turner Gymnasium
Currently, disordered eating and negative body satisfaction has been prevalent in female athletes. Disordered eating can be mistaken as being synonymous with an eating disorder. Disordered eating occurs when someone did not have a regular eating habit, intentionally missed meals, engaged in prolonged fasting, used dieting pills and/or diuretics, and was not diagnosed through the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (DSM-V).
Over one-third of Division I female athletes self-reported having an eating disorder such as anorexia nervosa and bulimia compared to female non-athletes. However, there has been limited research conducted on Division III female athletes and sports including non-aesthetic sports such as basketball, field hockey, golf, lacrosse, soccer, softball, tennis, track and field, and volleyball. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to determine if there is a relationship between sport type, body image dissatisfaction, and eating disorder risk in female athletes. Participants (n=48 female athletes) from one NCAA Division III sponsored athletic department completed two questionnaires, the Eating Attitudes Test (EAT-26) and Multidimensional Body Self Relations Questionnaire (MBSRQ) and its subsets. 16 track and field, 10 cross country, 6 swimming, 5 equestrian, 4 lacrosse, 4 field hockey, 2 soccer, and 2 softball athletes. A Mann-Whitney U test was run in SPSS. The test demonstrated a rejection of the null hypothesis for the MBSRQ eating disorders inventory- body dissatisfaction scale with a statistical significance of 0.10 with an alpha level of 0.05. The independent variables were sport type (aesthetic versus non aesthetic). Where the dependent variables were the two questionnaires: EAT-26 and MBSRQ.
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