Eating disorders and personality profile of female secondary schools students in Benin Metropolis, Nigeria / T.I. Izevbigie, I. Owie

This paper investigated the prevalence of eating disorders of female students and the consequence on their personality profile. Three research questions were raised and one hypothesis formulated. One thousand seven hundred and sixteen (1716) students whose ages ranged from 13-17 years were drawn from secondary school female students in Benin metropolis, using the multistage sampling technique. Female adolescent students eating disorder questionnaire (FASEDQ) was used to generate data. It is made of two parts. Part one comprised of ten main questions, grouped into five sub-areas and part two comprised fifteen questions grouped into five sub-areas.

Psychology.