TY - JOUR
T1 - A rational emotive behavior therapy-based intervention for binge eating behavior management among female students
T2 - a quasi-experimental study
AU - Yang, Jiwon
AU - Han, Kuem Sun
N1 - Funding Information:
This study was supported by Korea Nursing Research Center. We thank the families who participated in the study and the researchers who shared their research instruments.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2020, The Author(s).
PY - 2020/12
Y1 - 2020/12
N2 - Background: Binge eating behavior is highly likely to progress to an eating disorder, with female students particularly at risk. Objective: This study aimed to verify the effect of a binge eating behavior management program, based on rational emotive behavior therapy (REBT), on binge eating behavior and related cognitive and emotional factors among female college students. Method: The study, conducted from November 1 to December 2, 2016, involved a pretest-posttest design and nonequivalent control group. The sample included 24 and 22 first- to third-year students, from a college in South Korea, in the experimental and control groups, respectively. Data were collected using self-esteem, covert narcissism, perfectionism, body dissatisfaction, anxiety, depression, and binge eating scales and analyzed via frequency analysis, χ2 tests, t tests, and analysis of covariance. Results: The results indicated that the REBT-based binge eating behavior management program exerted positive effects on participants’ self-esteem, reducing covert narcissism, body dissatisfaction, anxiety, depression, and binge eating. However, there was no significant difference in perfectionism, although the experimental group’s mean score decreased from pretest to posttest. Conclusions: Based on the results, the program was considered to be effective, and is expected to be useful in preventing the development of eating disorders among female college students by treating binge eating behavior and related cognitive and emotional factors. This intervention could ultimately contribute to the improvement of female college students’ health and quality of life.
AB - Background: Binge eating behavior is highly likely to progress to an eating disorder, with female students particularly at risk. Objective: This study aimed to verify the effect of a binge eating behavior management program, based on rational emotive behavior therapy (REBT), on binge eating behavior and related cognitive and emotional factors among female college students. Method: The study, conducted from November 1 to December 2, 2016, involved a pretest-posttest design and nonequivalent control group. The sample included 24 and 22 first- to third-year students, from a college in South Korea, in the experimental and control groups, respectively. Data were collected using self-esteem, covert narcissism, perfectionism, body dissatisfaction, anxiety, depression, and binge eating scales and analyzed via frequency analysis, χ2 tests, t tests, and analysis of covariance. Results: The results indicated that the REBT-based binge eating behavior management program exerted positive effects on participants’ self-esteem, reducing covert narcissism, body dissatisfaction, anxiety, depression, and binge eating. However, there was no significant difference in perfectionism, although the experimental group’s mean score decreased from pretest to posttest. Conclusions: Based on the results, the program was considered to be effective, and is expected to be useful in preventing the development of eating disorders among female college students by treating binge eating behavior and related cognitive and emotional factors. This intervention could ultimately contribute to the improvement of female college students’ health and quality of life.
KW - Anxiety
KW - Binge eating disorder
KW - Body dissatisfaction
KW - Depression
KW - Female
KW - Narcissism
KW - Perfectionism
KW - Self-criticism
KW - Students
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U2 - 10.1186/s40337-020-00347-8
DO - 10.1186/s40337-020-00347-8
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85096998701
VL - 8
JO - Journal of Eating Disorders
JF - Journal of Eating Disorders
SN - 2050-2974
IS - 1
M1 - 65
ER -