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Understanding Eating Disorders in Elite Gymnastics
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Raff Calitri,
Andrew Bloodworth ,
Michael McNamee
Clinics in Sports Medicine, Volume: 35, Issue: 2, Pages: 275 - 292
Swansea University Authors:
Jacinta Tan , Andrew Bloodworth , Michael McNamee
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DOI (Published version): 10.1016/j.csm.2015.10.002
Abstract
Eating disorders and disordered eating are more common in high performance sports than the general population, and particularly so in high performance aesthetic sports. This paper presents some of the conceptual difficulties in understanding and diagnosing eating disorders in high performance gymnas...
| Published in: | Clinics in Sports Medicine |
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| ISSN: | 0278-5919 |
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Elsevier BV
2016
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| URI: | https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa21358 |
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| Abstract: |
Eating disorders and disordered eating are more common in high performance sports than the general population, and particularly so in high performance aesthetic sports. This paper presents some of the conceptual difficulties in understanding and diagnosing eating disorders in high performance gymnasts. It presents qualitative and quantitative data from a study designed to ascertain the pattern of eating disorder symptoms, depressive symptoms and levels of self-esteem amongst national and international level gymnasts from the UK in the gymnastic disciplines of sport acrobatics, tumbling and rhythmic gymnastics. |
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| Keywords: |
Gymnastics; Eating disorders; Depressive symptoms; Self-esteem; Female athlete triad syndrome; Elite performance |
| College: |
Faculty of Science and Engineering |
| Issue: |
2 |
| Start Page: |
275 |
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292 |