Eating disorders are increasing in frequency among adolescents. The active duty military population has a high prevalence of eating disorders. This study, conducted at a major medical center, determined the prevalence of disordered eating among military dependents and the correlation between adolescent and parent eating behaviors. Three hundred forty adolescent and parent pairs completed the Eating Attitude Test-26 question-based survey. Twenty-one percent of the adolescents and 26% of the parents met the criteria for disordered eating, with a strong correlation between at-risk parents and their adolescent daughters. Overall, the rate of disordered eating in this military sample was significantly higher than the comparable civilian population. Military families should be considered at high risk for disordered eating and eating disorders. Screening for disordered eating should be incorporated into routine practice to identify at-risk individuals.
As termination has become common among high-status workers, an industry has evolved that purports to assist in their reemployment. Advocates of outplacement have emphasized to employers, however, that the industry's service primarily functions as a self-protective device, minimizing the problematic reactions of job losers and bystanders. The particular strategy articulated by advocates for orchestrating the emotions, energies, and goals of terminated workers is described, and is interpreted as being analogous to that used by confidence game operators in "cooling-out" those they defraud.
Building on Murray Edelman's (1988) analysis of the socially constructed nature of postmodern mass‐mediated “political spectacles,” this research utilizes a Gamsonian framing analysis approach to examine the rhetorical themes and symbolic images employed by political proponents and opponents of the confirmation of Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas during the 1991 televised “sexual harassment” hearings. Because this dramatic national spectacle centered around the relative credibility of two opposed personalities in the public mind, the research focuses on the content of media images of the “real” Clarence Thomas and the “real” Anita Hill that were constructed for public consumption by the two opposed political camps in their attempts to sway mass opinion. Rhetorical motifs used by the “Hill” and “Thomas” political camps to frame the public debate are identified and classified based on newspaper and network television coverage of the events and on congressional transcripts. The impact of these symbolic messages in framing the context within which Americans ultimately gauged the “reality” status of Hill's and Thomas's respective truth claims is discussed, with particular emphasis on the intense symbolic contest that occurred between gender‐based and race‐based frames and on the implications for emerging styles of political discourse in postmodern society.
This article attempts to advance understanding of the interactional survival strategies of women in public places by examining the manner in which they fend off men and parry their advances in singles bars and nightclubs. The strategies employed are conceptualized as variants of the “cooling out” process initially outlined by Goffman (1952). Three sets of strategic practices associated with actual or anticipated cooling-out encounters are identified and elaborated. The data are based on participant observation in nine different nightclubs and drinking establishments, conversational interviews with patrons and employees, and postobservational, semistructured interviews with 33 other individuals. The article concludes with a number of observations regarding both the factors underlying the female-to-male cooling-out process and the relationship between that process, gender role behavior, public order, and the self.
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