Date of Award

1-1-2011

Language

English

Document Type

Master's Thesis

Degree Name

Master of Arts (MA)

College/School/Department

Department of Psychology

Program

Clinical Psychology

Content Description

1 online resource (iv, 32 pages)

Dissertation/Thesis Chair

Drew A Anderson

Committee Members

John P Forsyth

Keywords

Eating disorders, Reducing diets, Bulimia, College students

Subject Categories

Psychology

Abstract

Many suggest that dietary restraint represents a key component to the etiology and maintenance of eating pathology, and much research supports this position. Some recent evidence brings to question the relationship between dietary restraint and eating disorder risk. Furthermore, measures of dietary restraint do not appear to consistently predict caloric restriction, and these scales appear inadequate for differentiating between healthy and risky restraint in individuals. The current study seeks to examine the relationship between self-reported dietary restraint, recent weight loss, and eating pathology in a college sample to determine if cognitive restraint measured by restraint scales coupled with caloric restriction as measured by recent weight loss proves a more sensitive marker of eating disorder risk as compared to restraint alone.

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