Research On Adolescents' Eating Behaviors And Eating Disorders

From 1950s, the eating behaviors, which humans survived on had been severely disturbed gradually by the eating disorders. And from then on, western scholars had been dedicating themselves to the research of the eating disorders. Starting from 1990s, Chinese scholars also started putting their eyes on this issue.In order to make clear general situation of young people's eating behaviors in our country, to define the concept and diagnosis of sub-clinical eating disorders, to make an investigation of eating disorders incidence rate among these young people, and to discover the factors and mechanism of action during the process evolving from normal eating behavior to eating disorder. Our research make an investigation on more than 700 young people (only girls) through a self-weaved disordered eating behaviors investigation questionnaire with an open questionnaire combined simultaneously, which had defined the concept and diagnosis of sub-clinical eating disorders, ascertained the incidence rate of eating disorders. And then we used 16PF and BDI to analyze the effect on eating behaviors caused by personality and emotion separately.In the end, we use qualitative methods to take a deep study on two patients with eating disorders, through which, to ascertain the factors effected the eating disorders' evolvement.The final quantitive research result indicates:1. This self-weaved disordered behavior questionnaire had good structural validity and high reliability; it could be used as a filtration tool.2. Young people's attitude to their body and their eating behavior situation were influenced by such factors like their age, and school specialty, etc.3. Total 33 individuals of eating disorders and sub-clinical eating disorders (4.7% in total) were screened out; here into 2 cases were coincident with the bulimia nervosa diagnosis.4. Among those young people scored high in the questionnaire, near 60% people were under low, middle or high-level depression situation.5.The personality character of those young people who scored high were inclined to be low stability, bad independence, hypersensitive, easy tense, and easy worrying. The...