Psychological predicates of eating disorders in adolescents

Abstract

Currently, the problem of eating disorders is becoming important in the diagnostics of mental illness and in planning the work of the health care system. Tese types of disorders are typical for representatives of any age. A special group of risk consists of teenagers and young people under 30 years of age. Concern for thinness and social pressure are signifcant predictors of the risk of developing eating disorders in adolescent girls.

Keywords

• food behavior
• self-esteem
• mechanisms of psychological defense
• anorexia
• bulimia