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Psychological risk indicators of disordered eating in athletes

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  • Hannah Stoyel
  • Vaithehy Shanmuganathan-Felton
  • Caroline Meyer
  • Lucy Serpell

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Objectives: This project examined risk factors of disordered eating in athletes by adapting and applying a theoretical model. It tested a previously proposed theoretical model and explored the utility of a newly formed model within an athletic population across gender, age, and sport type to explain disordered eating. Design: The design was cross-sectional and the first phase in a series of longitudinal studies. Methods: 1,017 athletes completed online questionnaires related to social pressures, internalisation, body dissatisfaction, negative affect, restriction, and bulimia. Structural equation modelling was employed to analyse the fit of the measurement and structural models and to do invariance testing. Results: The original theoretical model failed to achieve acceptable goodness of fit (χ2 [70, 1017] = 1043.07; p

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  • Hannah Stoyel & Vaithehy Shanmuganathan-Felton & Caroline Meyer & Lucy Serpell, 2020. "Psychological risk indicators of disordered eating in athletes," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 15(5), pages 1-20, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:plo:pone00:0232979
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0232979
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    1. Razali Mohamed Salleh & Nur Nayli Fatihah Rosli & Ahmad Zaki Mohd Rum, 2024. "Perception of Body Image and Eating Disorders among Malay College Female Athletes," International Journal of Research and Scientific Innovation, International Journal of Research and Scientific Innovation (IJRSI), vol. 11(15), pages 649-654, October.

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