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N | O | P | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z

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Agras, W.S., Brandt, H.A., Bulik, C.M., Dolan-Sewell, R., Fairburn, C.G., Halmi, K.A., et al. (2004). Report of the national institutes of health workshop on overcoming barriers to treatment research in anorexia nervosa. International Journal of Eating Disorders, 35, 509-521.

Akan, G.E., & Grilo, C.M. (1995). Sociocultural influences on eating attitudes and behaviors, body image, and psychological functioning: A comparison of African-American, Asian-American, and Caucasian college women. International Journal of Eating Disorders, 18 (2), 181-187.

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American Psychiatric Association. (2000). Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders, 4th edition, text revision. Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Association.

American Psychological Association. Task force on the sexualization of girls. (2007). Report of the APA Task Force on the Sexualization of Girls. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association. Retrieved from: www.apa.org/pi/wpo/sexualization.html

Andersen, A. & Holman, J.E. (1997). Males with eating disorders: Challenges for treatment and research. Psychopharmacology Bulletin, 33 (3), 391-397.

Anderson, A.E., & DiDomenico, L. (1992). Diet vs. shape content of popular male and female magazines: A dose-response relationship to the incidence of eating disorders? International Journal of Eating Disorders, 11 (3), 283-287.

Attie, I., & Brooks-Gunn, J. (1989). Development of eating problems in adolescent girls: A longitudinal study. Developmental Psychology, 25, 70-79.

Austin, E.W., Roberts, D.F., & Nass, C.I. (1990). Influences of family communication on children’s television-interpretation processes. Communication Research, 17 (4), 545-564.

 

 

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Baker, D., Sivyer, R., & Towell, T. (1998). Body image dissatisfaction and eating attitudes in visually impaired women. International Journal of Eating Disorders, 24 (3), 319-322.

Bandura, A., & Walters, R.H. (1963). Social learning and personality development. New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston.

Bartky, S.L. (1988). Foucault, femininity, and the modernization of patriarchal power. In I. Diamond & L. Quinby (Eds.), Feminism and Foucault: Reflections on Resistance (61-886). Boston: Northeastern University Press.

Basow, S.A., & Braman, A.C. (1998). Women and body hair: Social perceptions and attitudes. Psychology of Women Quarterly, 22, 637-645.

Becker, A.E., & Hamburg, P. (1996). Culture, the media, and eating disorders. Harvard Review of Psychiatry, 4.

Beren, S.E., & Chrisler, J.C. (1990). Gender role, need for approval, childishness, and self-esteem: Markers of disordered eating? Research Communications in Psychology, Psychiatry and Behavior, 15, 183-198.

Berg, F.M. (1997). Three major U.S. studies describe trends. Healthy Weight Journal, 11 (4), 67-74.

Bergeron, S.M., & Senn, C.Y. (1998). Body image and sociocultural norms: A comparison of heterosexual and lesbian women. Psychology of Women Quarterly, 22, 385-401.

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Berry, J.W., Trimble, J.E., & Olmedo, E.L. (1986). Assessment of acculturation. In W.J. Lenner & J.W. Berry (Eds.), Field methods of cross-cultural research(291-349). Beverly Hills, CA: Sage Publications, Inc.

Bessenoff, G. (2006, September). Can the media affect us? Social comparison, self-discrepancy, and the thin ideal. Psychology of Women Quarterly, 30 (3), 239-251.

Birmingham, C.L., Su, J., & Hlynsky, J.A. (2005). The mortality rate from anorexia nervosa. International Journal of Eating Disorders, 38, 143-146.

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Button, E.J., & Whitehouse, A. (1981). Subclinical anorexia nervosa. Psychological Medicine, 11, 509-516.

Brownell, K.D. (1991). Dieting and the search for the perfect body: Where physiology and culture collide. Behavior Therapy, 22, 1-12.

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Cachelin, F., & Regan, P. (2006). Prevalence and correlates of chronic dieting in a multiethnic U.S. community sample. Eating and Weight Disorders, 11, 91-99.

Cachelin, F.M., & Striegel-Moore, R. (2006). Help seeking and barriers to treatment in a community sample of Mexican American and European American women with eating disorders. International Journal of Eating Disorders, 39, 154-161.

Calderon, L.L., Yu, C.K., & Jambazian, P. (2004). Dieting practices in high schools students. Journal of the American Dietetic Association, 104, 1369-1374.

Cash, T.F., & Henry, P.E. (1995). Women’s body images: The results of a national survey in the U.S.A. Sex Roles, 33 (1/2), 19-28.

Cash, T.F. & Pruzinsky, T. (Eds.). (1990). Body Images: Development, Deviance and Change. New York: Guilford Press.

Cash, T.F., Winstead, B.W., & Janda, L.H. (1986). The great American shape-up: Body image survey report. Psychology Today, 20 (4), 30-37.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (2004, May 21). Surveillance summaries: Youth risk behavior surveillance – United States, 2003. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR), 53 (SS02), 1-96.

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Cogan, J.C., Bhalla, S.K., Sefa-Dedeh, A., & Rothblum, E.D. (1996). A comparison study of United States and African students on perceptions of obesity and thinness. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 27 (1), 98-113.

Collins, J.K., Beumont, P.J., Touyz, S.W., Krass, J., Thompson, P., & Philips, T. (1987). Variability in body shape perception in anorexic, bulimic, obese and control subjects. International Journal of Eating Disorders, 6, 633-638.

Commission on Adolescent Eating Disorders. (2005). Eating disorders. In D.L. Evans et al. (Eds.), Treating and Preventing Adolescent Mental Health Disorders: What We Know and What We Don’t Know (257). New York: Oxford University Press.

Comstock, G. & Strasburger, V. (1990). Deceptive appearances: Television violence and aggressive behavior. Journal of Adolescent Health Care, 11, 31-44.

Cooke, K. (1996). Real gorgeous. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.

Cooper, P.J., Taylor, M.J., Cooper, Z., & Fairburn, C.G. (1987). The development and validation of the body shape questionnaire. International Journal of Eating Disorders, 6, 485-494.

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Counts, C.R., & Adams, H. (1985). Body image in bulimic, dieting, and normal females. Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment, 7 (3), 289-301.

Crago, M., Shisslak, C.M., & Estes, L.S. (1996). Eating disturbances among American minority groups: A review. International Journal of Eating Disorders, 19 (3), 239-248.

Crouch, A., & Degelman, D. (1998). Influence of female body images in printed advertising on self-ratings of physical attractiveness by adolescent girls.Perceptual & Motor Skills, 87 (2), 585-586.

Cusumano, D., & Thompson, J. K. (1997). Body image and body shape ideals in magazines: Exposure, awareness, and internalization. Sex Roles, 37 (9/10).

 

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Davis, C., & Katzman, M. (1999). Perfection as acculturation: Psychological correlates of eating problems in Chinese male and female students living in the United States. International Journal of Eating Disorders, 25 (1), 65-70.

Dietz, T.L. (1998). An examination of violence and gender role portrayals in video games: Implications for gender socialization and aggressive behavior. Sex Roles, 38 (5-6), 425-442.

Dietz, W. (1998). Health consequences of obesity in youth childhood predictors of adult disease. Pediatrics, 101, 518-525.

Dines, G., Jensen, R. & Russo, A. (Eds.). (1998). Pornography: The Production and Consumption of Inequality. New York: Routledge.

Dittrich, E.A. (1997). Sociocultural factors that influence body image satisfaction in women. (Doctoral Dissertation, California Institute of Integral Studies.) Dissertation Abstracts International.

Dolan, B., Birtchnell, S., & Lacey, J.H. (1987). Body image distortion in non-eating disordered women and men. Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 31 (4), 513-520.

Dolan, B. (1991). Cross-cultural aspects of anorexia nervosa and bulimia: A review. International Journal of Eating Disorders, 10 (1), 67-81.

Drinkwater, B.L., Loucks, A., Sherman, R.T., Sundgot-Borgen, J., & Thompson, R.A. (2005). Position stand on the female athlete triad. IOC Medical Commission Working Group of Women in Sport.

Durkin, K., & Nugent, B. (1998). Kindergarten children’s gender-role expectations for television actors. Sex Roles, 38 (5/6), 387-402.

 

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Eisenberg, M.E., Neumark-Sztainer, D., & Story, M. (2003). Associations of weight-based teasing and emotional well-being among adolescents. Archives of Pediatric & Adolescent Medicine, 157, 733-738.

Evans, C., & Dolan, B. (1993). Body shape questionnaire: Derivation of shortened “alternate forms”. International Journal of Eating Disorders, 13 (3), 315-321.

 

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Fabian, L.J., & Thompson, J.K. (1989). Body image and eating disturbance in young females. International Journal of Eating Disorders, 8 (1), 63-74.

Fairburn, C., & Bohn, K. (2005). Eating disorders NOS (EDNOS): An example of the troublesome ‘Not Otherwise Specified’ (NOS) category in the DSM-IV.Behavior Research and Therapy, 43 (2006), 691-701.

Fairburn, C.G., & Garner, D.M. (1986). The diagnosis of bulimia nervosa. International Journal of Eating Disorders, 10, 67-79.

Fairburn, C.G., & Garner, D.M. (1988). Diagnostic criteria for anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa: The importance of attitudes to weight and shape. In D.M. Garner & P.E. Garfinkel (Eds.), Diagnostic issues in anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa (36-55). New York: Brunner/Mazel.

Fernandez, F., Probst, M., Meerman, R., & Vandereycken, W. (1994). Body size estimation and body dissatisfaction on eating disorder patients and normal controls. International Journal of Eating Disorders, 16 (3), 307-310.

Festinger, L. (1954). A theory of social comparison processes. Human Relations, 7, 117-140.

Fisher, M., Golden, N.H., & Katzman, D.K. (1995). Eating disorders in adolescents: A background paper. Journal of Adolescent Health, 16, 420-437.

Flegal, K.M., Graubard, B.I., Williamson, D.F., & Gail, M.H. (2005). Excess deaths associated with underweight, overweight, and obesity. Journal of the American Medical Association, 293, 1861-1867.

Forehand, M.R. (2001). What we see makes us who we are: Priming ethnic self-awareness and advertising response. Journal of Marketing Research, 38, 336-348.

Franko, D.L. & Herrera, I. (1997). Body image differences in Guatemalan-American and White college women. Eating Disorders: The Journal of Treatment and Prevention, 5 (2), 119-127.

Fraser, L. (1997). Losing it: America’s Obsession With Weight and the Industry That Feeds on it. New York: Penguin Books.

Fredrickson, B.L., & Harrison, K. (2005). Throwing like a girl: Self-objectification predicts adolescent girls’ motor performance. Journal of Sport and Social Issues, 29, 79-101.

Fredrickson, B.L., & Roberts, T.A. (1997). Objectification theory: Toward understanding women’s lived experience and mental health risks. Psychology of Women Quarterly, 21 (2), 173-206.

Fredrickson, Roberts, et al. (1998). That swimsuit becomes you: Sex differences in self-objectification, eating and math performance. Journal of Personality & Social Psychology, 75 (1), (269-284).

French, S., et al. (1997). Ethnic differences in psychosocial and health behavior correlates of dieting, purging, and binge eating in a population-based sample of adolescent females. International Journal of Eating Disorders, 22, 315-322.

Frisch, M.J., Herzog, D.B., & Franko, D.L. (2006, July). Residential treatment for eating disorders. International Journal of Eating Disorders, 39 (5), 434-442.

Furnham, A., & Greaves, N. (1994). Gender and locus of control correlates of body image dissatisfaction. European Journal of Personality, 8, 183-200.

 

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Gaesser, G.A. (2003). Is it necessary to be thin to be healthy? Harvard Health Policy Review, 4, 40-47.

Gapinski, K.D., Brownell, K.D., & LaFrance, M. (2003). Body objectification and “fat talk”: Effects on emotion, motivation, and cognitive performance. Sex Roles, 48, 377-388.

Gard, M.C.E., & Freeman, C.P. (1996). The dismantling of a myth: A review of eating disorders and socioeconomic status. International Journal of Eating Disorders, 20 (1), 1-12.

Garner, D.M. (1997, January/February). The 1997 body image survey results. Psychology Today, 31-44, 75-84.

Garner, D.M., Garfinkel, P.E., Schwartz, D., & Thompson, M. (1980). Cultural expectations of thinness in women. Psychological Reports, 47, 483-491.

Garner, D.M., Olmstead, M.P., & Polivy, J. (1983). Development and validation of a multidimensional eating disorder inventory for anorexia nervosa and bulimia. International Journal of Eating Disorders, 2 (2), 15-34.

Garner, D.M., Olmstead, M.P., Polivy, J., & Garfinkel P.E. (1984). Comparison between weight- preoccupied women and anorexia-nervosa. Psychosomatic Medicine, 46, (3), 255-266.

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Gray, J.J., Ford, K., & Kelly, L.M. (1987). The prevalence of bulimia in a Black college population. International Journal of Eating Disorders, 6 (6), 733-740.

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Harrison, K.M., and Fredrickson, B.L. (2003). Women’s sports media, self-objectification, and mental health in Black and White adolescent females. Journal of Communication, 53, 216-232.

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Kalodner, C.R. (1997). Media influences on male and female non-eating disordered college students: A significant issue. Eating Disorders: The Journal of Treatment and Prevention, 5 (1).

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Lamb, S. (2002). The Secret Lives of Girls: What Good Girls Really Do – Sex Play, Aggression, and Their Guilt. New York: Free Press.

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Le Grange, D., Telch, C.F., & Agras, W.S. (1997). Eating and general psychopathology in a sample of Caucasian and ethnic minority subjects. International Journal of Eating Disorders, 21 (3), 285-293.

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