As a preliminary step in researching “orthorexia nervosa,” an alleged syndrome characterized by a pathological fixation on healthy eating, we designed the 21-item Eating Habits Questionnaire (EHQ) to assess the cognitions,...
We implemented experimental vignette methodology to investigate causal effects of psychological need satisfaction on self-determined motivation and disordered eating. Participants were varsity female collegiate athletes (N =...
Definitions for the culturally trendy “clean” eating phenomenon vary: whereas some characterize it as natural and healthy, others adopt more restrictive, moralizing, and affectively-laden definitions that may reflect disordered...
