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Refinement of the Eating and Me Scale: Body image and eating patterns of preadolescent children

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 October 2015

Julie E. Tricker  and
Marita P. McCabe
Julie E. Tricker
Affiliation:
School of Psychology, Deakin University
Marita P. McCabe*
Affiliation:
School of Psychology, Deakin University
*
School of Psychology, Deakin University, Victoria 3125, Phone: + 61 (03) 9244 6856(W), Fax: + 61 (03) 9244 6858(W), E-mail: maritam@deakin.edu.au
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Abstract

Body dissatisfaction and eating disorders in the preadolescent population have increased over the past 10 years. The Eating and Me (E&M) scale of body dissatisfaction and disordered eating for use with prepubescent males and females (Sands, Tricker, Sherman, Armatas, & Maschette, 1997) was refined and used to investigate relationships among disordered eating, body dissatisfaction, and self-worth. The sample comprised 59 females and 57 males, with ages ranging between 10-12 years (M = 11 years). From the 18 item E&M-II, 6 items were removed to produce the 12-item E&M-III scale. Physical self-worth, current and ideal images, and Children’s Eating Attitude Test scores predicted high scores on the E&M-III. These results support the inclusion of body image assessment in screening for preclinical eating disturbances in nonclinical populations.

Keywords

Body dissatisfactionchildrendisordered eatingscalesself-worth
Type
Research Article
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The Educational and Developmental Psychologist , Volume 16 , Issue 2 , November 1999 , pp. 29 - 42
Copyright
Copyright © Australian Psychological Society 1999

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