Conflicting Gender Role Prescriptions and Disordered Eating in Single-Sex and Coeducational School Environments.

Mensinger, Janell

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ERIC Number: EJ636439

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Publication Date: 2001

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Conflicting Gender Role Prescriptions and Disordered Eating in Single-Sex and Coeducational School Environments.

Mensinger, Janell

Gender and Education, v13 n4 p417-29 Dec 2001

Examined the hypothesis that adolescent girls attending single-sex schools would exhibit greater body dissatisfaction and disordered eating than their coeducational counterparts, reanalyzing data from relevant subscales of an eating disorder inventory (drive for thinness, bulimia, and body dissatisfaction) and a figure rating scale from an earlier study. Results supported the hypothesis. (Contains references.) (SM)

Descriptors: Adolescents, Body Image, Coeducation, Eating Disorders, Females, Foreign Countries, Gender Issues, Secondary Education, Sex Role, Single Sex Schools

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Language: English

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Identifiers - Location: Australia

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