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Eating disorders in sport: a call for methodological diversity
journal contribution
posted on 2015-04-01, 12:01 authored by Anthony PapathomasAnthony Papathomas, David E. LavalleeFrom the emergence of isolated studies in the early 1980s to the concentrated and burgeoning research base of the present day, scholars
within sport psychology have been motivated to address the problem of eating disorders in sport. Heavily influenced by the medical model of scientific
inquiry, the extant literature offers important insights into prevalence and aetiology. Despite this progress, there is much that is poorly understood about
athlete eating disorders and existing approaches are vulnerable to considerable critique. This paper highlights some of the fundamental problems with
the medical model and argues that its current dominance has created an overly narrow knowledge base. It is proposed that an increase in qualitative, interpretive
accounts, that prioritize the subjectivity of experience over the serialization of symptoms, is necessary if we are to achieve a balanced and
more complete understanding of eating disorders in sport.
History
School
- Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences
Published in
REVISTA DE PSICOLOGIA DEL DEPORTEVolume
21Issue
2Pages
387 - 392 (6)Citation
PAPATHOMAS, A. and LAVALLEE, D.E., 2012. Eating disorders in sport: a call for methodological diversity. Revisita de Psicologia del Deporte, 21 (2), pp.387-392.Publisher
Universitat de les Illes BalearsVersion
- VoR (Version of Record)
Publisher statement
This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Spain (CC BY-SA 3.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/Publication date
2012Notes
This paper was published as Open Access under the Creative Commons license Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Spain, in the journal Revisita de Psicologia del Deporte: http://www.rpd-online.com/ISSN
1132-239XeISSN
1988-5636Publisher version
Language
- en