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- Title
Eating Concerns in College Women Across Sexual Orientation Identities.
- Authors
Maloch, Janelle K.; Bieschke, Kathleen J.; McAleavey, Andrew A.; Locke, Benjamin D.
- Abstract
This study found that treatment-seeking sexual minority college women evidenced serious eating concerns. Regardless of sexual orientation and compared with those with low levels of eating concerns, women with high levels of eating concerns evidenced increased depression, increased generalized anxiety, and a greater likelihood of experiencing trauma. Regardless of eating concerns severity, sexual minority women evidenced greater depression, generalized anxiety, and likelihood of trauma than did heterosexual women, with bisexual women reporting the highest concerns.
- Subjects
LGBTQ+ college students; EATING disorders in women; DEPRESSION in women; HETEROSEXUAL women; PSYCHOLOGY of women college students; MENTAL health of women college students; ANXIETY in women; BISEXUAL women
- Publication
Journal of College Counseling, 2013, Vol 16, Issue 3, p275
- ISSN
1099-0399
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/j.2161-1882.2013.00042.x