The Impact of the Psychological Trauma in Non-Adaptation at School and with Same Age Peers in Middle Childhood

Dalila Sinishtaj-Lekaj

doi:10.5901/ajis.2015.v4n2s2p276

Abstract

The Impact of the Psychological Trauma in Non-Adaptation at School and with Same Age Peers in Middle Childhood

Highlights

Results of this study show that maintaining diet among teenage girls 15-18 years is closely related to body dissatisfaction, neurotic perfectionism, self-esteem and BMI in the subjects
From the table of correlation it has emerged that the highest positive correlation is between body dissatisfaction and dieting (r = 0.707; p
It is known that body dissatisfaction and weight loss attempts are common among teenage girls in Western culture; more than 50% of adolescent girls report that maintain diet, but even greater is the percentage of those who want to be thinner (Huon,1994; Wertheim, Paxton, Maude, Szmukler, Gibbons of Hiller, 1992, cited Ambrosi - Randic, 2001)

Summary

Introduction

Regarding the psychological effects of keeping the diet include the fact that the person fasting starts to be even more concerned about food and nutrition, and that it can become the main preoccupation that can reduce the capacity to complete everyday tasks It is not yet clarified the role of maintaining restrictive diet to the development of eating disorders, researchers have noted that persons that keep diet are at risk for developing these disorders. Eating disorders and unhealthy eating habits, such as restrictive diets, overeating and the use of harmful methods of weight control (self induced vomiting and laxatives), represent a major health problem of teenage women These problems appear between the ages of 14 and 20 years old. This is the first study of its kind in the territory of Montenegro, but others are in progress

Methodology

Participants

Instrumentation

Findings and discussion

Discussion and Conclusion