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      Weight pressures in sport: examining the factor structure and incremental validity of the weight pressures in sport - females.

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      Eating behaviors
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          Due to pressures within the sport environment, such as from coaches, teammates, uniforms and judges, female athletes may develop unhealthy eating practices to lose weight or change their body size/shape to become more competitive and meet societal and sport-related physique ideals. However, up until the development of the Weight Pressures in Sport for Females (WPS-F; Reel, SooHoo, Petrie, Greenleaf, & Carter, 2010) there was no way to quantify sport-specific weight pressures with female athletes. In this study, the psychometric properties of the scale were further examined using a sample of 414 female collegiate athletes. Sample 1 [n=207; M=19.27 years; SD=1.16] and Sample 2 [n=207; M=19.19 years; SD=1.66] participants were of a similar age and were used for exploratory and confirmatory analyses respectively. A two factor structure was confirmed and it was established that the scale was unique from general sociocultural pressures that all women experience, predicting female athletes' internalization, body dissatisfaction, dietary intent, and bulimic symptomatology. Specifically, the following factors, Coach and Sport Pressures about Weight (Factor 1) and Pressures Regarding Appearance and Performance (Factor 2), were found to have strong internal consistency and the emerging reliable and valid WPS-F has practical implications for screening and identifying weight-related sport pressures within female athletes. WPS-F can also serve to educate sport professionals about environmental pressures so that disordered eating and body image disturbances can be prevented.

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          Journal
          Eat Behav
          Eating behaviors
          Elsevier BV
          1873-7358
          1471-0153
          Apr 2013
          : 14
          : 2
          Affiliations
          [1 ] Department of Health Promotion and Education, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA. Justine.Reel@hsc.utah.edu
          Article
          S1471-0153(13)00004-4
          10.1016/j.eatbeh.2013.01.003
          23557809
          53ac0c4a-d912-4293-885f-58de9f13e534
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