title: Body-related sport and exercise motives and disturbed eating attitudes and behaviours in adolescents.
abstract: Motives underlying sport and exercise involvement have recently been hypothesized as potential factors influencing the positive association between sports/exercises involvement and disturbed eating attitudes and behaviours (DEAB) among adolescents. Nevertheless, very few studies have examined this hypothesis or the moderating role of gender, context of practice, performance levels and sport type on these relationships. In this study, these questions were addressed among 168 male and 167 female French adolescents involved in various types, contexts and performance levels of sport and exercise. Participants were asked to indicate their main motives for involvement in sport practice and to self-report DEAB (generic DEAB, vomiting-purging behaviours, and eating-related control) on a French adaptation of the Eating Attitudes Test-26. The results shared positive associations between body-related sport and exercise motives and most of the DEAB subscales. Furthermore, they show that the relationship between body-related sport and exercise motives and Vomiting-Purging Behaviours differs according to involvement in individual and competitive sports and exercises.
authors.affiliation: Cyberpsychology Laboratory, Department of Psychoeduction and Psychology, Université du Québec en Outaouais, Canada.|Institute for Positive Psychology and Education, Australian Catholic University, Australia.
authors.forename: Christophe
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Maïano
authors.affiliation: Institute for Positive Psychology and Education, Australian Catholic University, Australia.
authors.forename: Alexandre J S
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: Morin
authors.affiliation: Aix Marseille Université, CNRS, ISM UMR 7287, Marseille, France.|Direction Régionale de la Jeunesse, des Sports et de la Cohésion Sociale - Provence-Alpes-Côte-d'Azur, Marseille, France.
authors.forename: Marie-Christine
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Lanfranchi
authors.affiliation: Aix Marseille Université, CNRS, ISM UMR 7287, Marseille, France.
authors.forename: Pierre
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Therme
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001294:Attitude to Health; D001828:Body Image; D015992:Body Mass Index; D002648:Child; D003163:Competitive Behavior; D015444:Exercise / Q000523:psychology*; D001068:Feeding and Eating Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009042:Motivation; D012737:Sex Factors; D013177:Sports / Q000523:psychology*; D013223:Statistics as Topic; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: body-related motives; context of sport and exercise; disturbed eating attitudes and behaviours; gender; moderation; performance level; sport type