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Patrick, Julie Hicks; Stahl, Sarah T.; Sundaram, Murali – International Journal of Aging and Human Development, 2011
The majority of our knowledge about eating disorders derives from adolescent and young adult samples; knowledge regarding disordered eating in middle and later adulthood is limited. We examined the associations among known predictors of eating disorders for younger adults in an age-diverse sample and within the context of psychological distress.…
Descriptors: Eating Disorders, Young Adults, Correlation, Predictor Variables
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Boeninger, Daria K.; Shiraishi, Ray W.; Aldwin, Carolyn M.; Spiro, Avron, III – International Journal of Aging and Human Development, 2009
We examined the interplay between three explanatory hypotheses for why older adults appear to rate their problems as less stressful than do younger adults: age-related differences in personality, in types of problems, and in the appraisal process--specifically, the number of primary stress appraisals. A sample of 1,054 men from the Normative Aging…
Descriptors: Personality, Age Differences, Veterans, Males