Psychological stress and its relationship to eating disorders in adolescent students with learning disabilities

1*Mohammaed Omar Abu Al-Rub, Reem Abdullah Al-Kinani, Abd Alhameed Mahmoud Abu Issa, Musa Suleiman Abu Zaitoun

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Abstract:

The study aimed to identify the nature of the relationship between psychological stress and eating disorders. A sample of adolescent students with learning disabilities (male and female), to identify the gender differences in psychological pressure and eating disorders. The study sample consisted of (360) students . The psychological stress scale and the eating disorders scale were applied, and the results showed that there is a positive correlation between psychological pressure and eating disorders in the study sample of males and females, and the results showed that there are differences between the genders in the level of psychological pressure in favor of females, and the presence of gender differences in the level of eating disorders In favor of females.

Keywords:

Psychological Stress, Eating disorders, Adolescents, Learning disabilities.

Paper Details
Month5
Year2020
Volume24
IssueIssue 10
Pages2283-2303