title: Self-esteem in girls aged 11-12: baseline findings from a planned prospective study of vulnerability to eating disorders.
abstract: The paper reports on the first stage of a planned prospective study of self-esteem and risk for eating disorders in 594 schoolgirls aged 11-12. Subjects completed a short questionnaire which incorporated the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale and a few "problem" questions, including one on fatness concern. Low self-esteem was associated with increased fatness concern, but also with problems in general. The girls will be followed up in detail at age 15-16, with a view to clarifying whether low self-esteem is predictive of clinically significant eating disorders.
authors.affiliation: University Department of Psychiatry, Royal South Hants Hospital, Southampton, U.K.
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Button
mesh_terms: D000367:Age Factors; D000704:Analysis of Variance; D001835:Body Weight; D002648:Child; D001068:Feeding and Eating Disorders / Q000209:etiology / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D011446:Prospective Studies; D012307:Risk Factors; D012649:Self Concept; D012737:Sex Factors; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires