title: Perceived and individual ideals of gender in Swedish adolescents with and without an eating disorder.
abstract: Three open-ended questions based on Steiner-Adair (1986) were used to study gender concepts in relation to ideals in adolescent boys and girls and eating-disordered girls. The answers were coded according to themes emanating from the collected data and not predetermined. Dichotomous differences were found between the genders regarding perceived ideals of body size, but clinical and nonclinical girls perceived ideals of society and media similarly. Individual gender concepts differed substantially from the perceived ideals, and were most often focused on lifestyle and life conditions. However, the clinical girls were somewhat more likely to emphasize appearance and loving relationships.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neuroscience, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden. barbro.thurfjell@bupinst.uu.se
authors.forename: Barbro
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Thurfjell
authors.forename: Anne-Liis
authors.initials: AL
authors.lastname: Von Knorring
authors.forename: Mona
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Eliasson
authors.forename: Ingemar
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Swenne
authors.forename: Ingemar
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Engström
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001290:Attitude; D001828:Body Image; D001068:Feeding and Eating Disorders / Q000208:ethnology* / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D005783:Gender Identity; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012737:Sex Factors; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D013548:Sweden