Within- and between-person predictors of disordered eating attitudes among male and female dancers: findings from the UK Centres for Advanced Training
dc.contributor.author | Nordin-Bates, Sanna M. | en |
dc.contributor.author | Schwarz, Johanna F.A. | en |
dc.contributor.author | Quested, Eleanor | en |
dc.contributor.author | Cumming, Jennifer | en |
dc.contributor.author | Aujla, Imogen | en |
dc.contributor.author | Redding, Emma | en |
dc.date.accessioned | 2018-11-09T10:28:43Z | |
dc.date.available | 2018-11-09T10:28:43Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2016-07-09 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Nordin-Bates SM, Schwarz JFA, Quested E, Cumming J, Aujla IJ, Redding E (2016) 'Within- and between-person predictors of disordered eating attitudes among male and female dancers: findings from the UK Centres for Advanced Training', Psychology of Sport and Exercise, 27 (), pp.101-111. | en |
dc.identifier.issn | 1469-0292 | |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1016/j.psychsport.2016.07.004 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10547/622937 | |
dc.description.abstract | Objectives This longitudinal study examined potential predictors of disordered eating attitudes (DEA) for male and female dancers, with a particular focus on whether environmental predictors (perceptions of task- and ego-involving motivational climate) added significantly to the prediction made by intrapersonal predictor variables (demographics/training, self-esteem, perfectionism). Methods and Design Young dancers (N = 597, 73.4% female, M = 14.69 years old, SD = 2.04) from UK Centres for Advanced Training completed questionnaires 1–5 times over a two-year period, depending on how long they were enrolled at their centre. Multilevel modelling was employed to examine both between- and within-person predictors of DEA. Results For females, lower self-esteem and higher perfectionistic concerns were significant between-person predictors of DEA. Increased levels of perfectionistic strivings and perfectionistic concerns were significant within-person predictors. For males, increased perfectionistic concerns and perceptions of the motivational climate as more task- and ego-involving were significant between-person predictors of DEA. No significant within-person predictors emerged. Conclusions Findings contribute to the literature on DEA in aesthetic activities and the debate concerning the (mal-)adaptiveness of perfectionistic strivings. They also raise questions about how environmental aspects should best be conceptualized and measured in studies of this type. In particular, however, results demonstrate that the predictors of DEA among males and females may not be the same, and suggest that future interventions may therefore need to be sex-specific. | |
dc.description.sponsorship | Department of Education/Leverhulme Trust | en |
dc.language.iso | en | en |
dc.publisher | Elsevier | en |
dc.relation.url | https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S146902921630084X | en |
dc.rights | Green - can archive pre-print and post-print or publisher's version/PDF | |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ | * |
dc.subject | dancers | en |
dc.subject | perfectionism | en |
dc.subject | motivational climate | en |
dc.subject | eating attitudes | en |
dc.subject | eating disorders | en |
dc.subject | W500 Dance | en |
dc.title | Within- and between-person predictors of disordered eating attitudes among male and female dancers: findings from the UK Centres for Advanced Training | en |
dc.type | Article | en |
dc.contributor.department | Swedish School of Sport and Health Sciences | en |
dc.contributor.department | Curtin University | en |
dc.contributor.department | University of Birmingham | en |
dc.contributor.department | University of Bedfordshire | en |
dc.contributor.department | Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance | en |
dc.identifier.journal | Psychology of Sport and Exercise | en |
dc.date.updated | 2018-11-09T10:24:39Z | |
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refterms.dateFOA | 2020-04-23T08:40:59Z | |
html.description.abstract | Objectives This longitudinal study examined potential predictors of disordered eating attitudes (DEA) for male and female dancers, with a particular focus on whether environmental predictors (perceptions of task- and ego-involving motivational climate) added significantly to the prediction made by intrapersonal predictor variables (demographics/training, self-esteem, perfectionism). Methods and Design Young dancers (N = 597, 73.4% female, M = 14.69 years old, SD = 2.04) from UK Centres for Advanced Training completed questionnaires 1–5 times over a two-year period, depending on how long they were enrolled at their centre. Multilevel modelling was employed to examine both between- and within-person predictors of DEA. Results For females, lower self-esteem and higher perfectionistic concerns were significant between-person predictors of DEA. Increased levels of perfectionistic strivings and perfectionistic concerns were significant within-person predictors. For males, increased perfectionistic concerns and perceptions of the motivational climate as more task- and ego-involving were significant between-person predictors of DEA. No significant within-person predictors emerged. Conclusions Findings contribute to the literature on DEA in aesthetic activities and the debate concerning the (mal-)adaptiveness of perfectionistic strivings. They also raise questions about how environmental aspects should best be conceptualized and measured in studies of this type. In particular, however, results demonstrate that the predictors of DEA among males and females may not be the same, and suggest that future interventions may therefore need to be sex-specific. |