TY - JOUR TT - Eating attitudes and behaviors of adolescents AU - Özgen, Leyla AU - Kınacı, Bahar AU - Arlı, Mine PY - 2012 DA - May DO - 10.1501/Egifak_0000001243 JF - Ankara University Journal of Faculty of Educational Sciences (JFES) JO - JFES PB - Ankara Üniversitesi WT - DergiPark SN - 1301-3718 SP - 229 EP - 248 VL - 45 IS - 1 KW - Ergen KW - yeme davranışları KW - stres KW - mutlu olma KW - endişe KW - beden imgesi N2 - A total 757 adolescents of primary school students, 487 girls and 275 boys, were included in the current study which was carried out to determine the views of the students at adolescence concerning their body image, emotional status, the interaction of their eating habits according to their gender and body mass index. A significant difference was found between agreeing status of both girl and boy adolescents on the item of “I do excessive exercises until I lose weight that I put on” (girl=1.42, boy=1.54) whereas the difference between agreeing the item “Others think that I am thin” was not found significant statistically depending on body mass index (BMI≤ 16.9 =2.39, BMI 17-22.9 =2.12, BMI ≥23 =1.55), (p<.05). The requirement over the prevention of the problems determined at eating attitudes and behaviors of adolescents should be taken into consideration UR - https://doi.org/10.1501/Egifak_0000001243 L1 - https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/download/article-file/508769 ER -