[ORDER SOLUTION] Educational Achievement in Adolescents

A research topic that interests me is eating disorders (EDs) among collegiate athletes. One study I found compared the differences in gender in relation to this risk for EDs amongst collegiate-athletes on the track and cross country teams at the highest level of college sports in the United States (Krebs et al., 2019). This is a topic of interest to me because when I was a Division I volleyball player, there was a high percentage of cross-country runners who were female that struggled with body image, anorexia nervosa, bulimia, and purging at my university. To collect the data needed to test the hypothesis, the researchers created a questionnaire survey which could determine this risk and received six hundred thirty-eight responses (Krebs et al., 2019). The variables in this study were male or female student athletes who ran in races at least of 800 meters at a Division I university, and the risk of positive screenings for EDs. The research question of this study is what is the difference between genders in NCAA Division I distance runners in relation to the risk for eating disorders (Krebs et al., 2019). The purpose of this study was to compare the gender differences in this population when it comes to EDs and to raise awareness for the need for screening, particularly in these populations. Researchers hypothesized that although female student athletes would have a higher risk of EDs, but also that this specific population in males also has a high risk of eating disorders that is being underrepresented (Krebs et al., 2019).