title: Physical self-concept and disturbed eating attitudes and behaviors in French athlete and non-athlete adolescent girls: direct and indirect relations.
abstract: This study aims to investigate the direct and indirect associations between physical self-subdomains, physical self-worth, global self-worth, and disturbed eating attitudes and behaviors among French non-elite athlete and non-athlete adolescent girls. A sample of adolescent girls including 50 ballet dancers, 41 basketball players, and 47 non-athletes was used in this study. Data obtained from the ballet dancer and basketball player subsamples revealed significant, sample-specific as well as common, direct relations between global and physical self-perceptions and disturbed eating attitudes and behaviors, as well as significant indirect relations (via global self-worth and physical self-worth) between specific physical self-perceptions and disturbed eating attitudes and behaviors. In contrast, no association was found between global and physical self-perceptions in the sample of non-athlete adolescent girls.
authors.affiliation: Department of Education Sciences, University of Québec in Trois-Rivières, Trois-Rivières, Québec, Canada. Johana.Monthuy-Blanc@UQTR.CA
authors.forename: Johana
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Monthuy-Blanc
authors.forename: Christophe
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Maïano
authors.forename: Alexandre J S
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: Morin
authors.forename: Yannick
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Stephan
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D056352:Athletes / Q000523:psychology*; D001490:Basketball / Q000523:psychology*; D001828:Body Image; D002032:Bulimia / Q000523:psychology; D016022:Case-Control Studies; D002648:Child; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D003615:Dancing / Q000523:psychology*; D001068:Feeding and Eating Disorders / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D005602:France; D006801:Humans; D012649:Self Concept