Annotated Bib

Robbeson, Justine G., et al. "Disordered Eating Behavior, Body Image, and Energy Status of Female Student Dancers." International Journal of Sport Nutrition & Exercise Metabolism, vol. 25, no. 4, Aug. 2015, pp. 344-352. EBSCOhost, login.proxy.lib.fsu.edu/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=s3h&AN=109423791&site=eds-live.

Justine G. Robbeson, Herculina Salome Kruger, and Hattie H. Wright are with the Facility of Health Sciences. Robbeson, Kruger, and Wright did an experiment with volunteer dancers and researched the habits of dancers. The authors study the common idea of thinness. They found that dancers are significantly more at risk for developing eating disorders by a factor of over two thirds. They also studied the energy deficits that come with these disorders in dancers by using a formula.

The eating disorders were assessed with Eating Disorder Inventory-3 and the Cognitive Dietary Restraint subscale of the Three-factor Eating Questionnaire. This includes factors such as drive for thinness, body dissatisfaction, bulimia levels, and more, where “main findings of this study were that more than two thirds of dancers were identified as at risk for disordered eating behavior”. It also stated that the expectation for low body weight is low, stating that “dancers had a significantly lower desired body weight than controls”.

This source agrees with my other research and my question as it shows the strong connection between dance and eating disorders. The source is all factual based, but I believe the authors opinions would be concerned towards the high numbers of mental and physical health deficits. Many other authors also state the alarmingly high rates of eating disorders, and the experiments coincide. I believe this is a good source to base factual based opinions on.