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Disordered Eating Behavior Among United States Military Personnel

Ferrell, Emily Lauren
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1552056638682163

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2019, Master of Arts (MA), Bowling Green State University, Psychology/Clinical.
Disordered eating behaviors such as binge eating, restrained eating, and compensatory behaviors are becoming increasingly common among U.S. Military Personnel. Previous research suggests that there may be a number of variables related to eating disorder development in this population: symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), symptoms of body dysmorphic disorder (BDD), gender, military branch, and pre-military food insecurity. Although previous research has identified factors related to disordered eating in military personnel, this study sought to better understand the associations between each of these variables and the moderators of these associations as they influence the development of disordered eating behaviors in this population. A diverse sample of the military population was recruited using Amazon’s Mechanical Turk (MTurk) to participate in an online survey, which included demographic measures, measures of psychopathological symptomatology (i.e., the Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Checklist – Military and the Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale modified for Body Dysmorphic Disorder), food insecurity (U.S. Household Food Security Survey Module: Six-Item Short Form), and disordered eating behavior (Eating Disorder Examination Questionnaire and the Binge Eating Scale). Researchers hypothesized that each of these variables would be related to disordered eating behavior and exacerbated by the presence of PTSD and BDD symptoms. In this sample, military personnel reported greater disordered eating symptoms than the civilian population. Findings indicated that symptoms of PTSD and BDD were significantly associated with disordered eating even when controlling for pre-military food insecurity and gender. Symptoms of PTSD moderated the associations between gender and disordered eating behavior, but BDD symptoms only moderated the association between gender and binge eating.
Abby Braden, Ph.D. (Advisor)
Josh Grubbs, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
Dara Musher-Eizenmann, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
95 p.
Psychology
Military; Eating; Behavior; Veteran; PTSD; BDD

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  • Ferrell, E. L. (2019). Disordered Eating Behavior Among United States Military Personnel [Master's thesis, Bowling Green State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1552056638682163

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Ferrell, Emily. Disordered Eating Behavior Among United States Military Personnel. 2019. Bowling Green State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1552056638682163.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Ferrell, Emily. "Disordered Eating Behavior Among United States Military Personnel." Master's thesis, Bowling Green State University, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1552056638682163

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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