Blog 9:

1) "Is Your Diet Driving You Into Disordered Eating? momlogic.com." 7/14/2009 <http://www.momlogic.com/2009/07/disordered_eating.php>.

2)"Montecatini Eating Disorder Treatment Center Announces Opening of New Facility." Marketwire July 13 2009.

Final project

1) Scholarly Articles

• Hohlstein, Leigh Anne, Gregory T. Smith, and Jana G. Atlas. "An Application of Expectancy Theory to Eating Disorders: Development and Validation of Measures of Mating and Dieting Expectancies." Psychological Assessment 10.1 (Mar. 1998): 49-58. PsycARTICLES. EBSCO. AUC Library, Cairo. 12 July 2009 http://0-search.ebscohost.com.lib.aucegypt.edu/login.aspx?direct=true&db=pdh&AN=pas-10-1-49&site=ehost-live.
• Cooper, Myra J., et al. "The Experience of 'Feeling Fat' in Women with Anorexia Nervosa, Dieting and Non-Dieting Women: An Exploratory Study." European Eating Disorders Review 15.5 (Sep. 2007): 366-372. PsycINFO. EBSCO. AUC Library, Cairo. 12 July 2009.

2) Current news Article

• Fish Donna. "Worried About Your Child's Diet? You should be." USA Today (n.d.). Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. AUC Library, Cairo. 12 July 2009 http://0-search.ebscohost.com.lib.aucegypt.edu/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=J0E395933085305&site=ehost-live.

3) Popular non-news article

• "Healthy lifestyle promotion may be eating disorder prevention strategy in adolescents." Endocrine Today 6.12 (10 July 2008): 30-30. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. AUC Library, Cairo. 14 July 2009 http://0-search.ebscohost.com.lib.aucegypt.edu/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=33362353&site=ehost-live.

4) Film

• Slim Hopes : Advertisin. Dir. Sut Jhally. Prod. Media Education Foundation. 2002. DVD.

5) Book

• Ogden, Jane. The Psychology of Eating : From Healthy to Disordered Behavior. MA: Blackwell Pub, 2003.

6) Website

• " Weight Loss, Diets, Nutrition and Excersise" 13 July 2009 <http://www.thedietchannel.com/>.

blog 10

1)

• Finding relevant information
• Citation
• searching the library database

2)

• maybe citation could have taken more time so we can fully comprehend how to cite properly

3)

• I think its fun and its a greart way to express ideas

Blog 8

Database 1

• PsycInfo
• Psychology
• 1872 - present
• Scholarly and Popular
• It has off-campus access
• Some Full text available

Database 2

• PsycARTICLES
• Psychology
• 1988 - present
• Scholarly
• It has off-campus access
• Full text available

Comparison:

• PsycARTICLES seems easier to use because its searches bring more relevant information and all the articles are in full text. Although PsycInfo brings more results but many of its articles are not in full text
• PsycInfo brings up more choices and some popular sources while PsycARTICLES bring less choices but are scholarly and more relevant

Blog 7

1) What is the relationship between dieting and anorexia?



2) Acadamic disciplines

• Psychology


• Statistics


• Health sciences

3) AUC Majors/Minors

• Psychology


• Biology

4) Subject Database

• PsycInfo (EBSCOhost) : Includes relevant materials from related disciplines such as medicine, psychiatry, education


• Oxford Journals Online: It is more broad and it includes more disciplines but that are also relevant to my research like Health science

Blog 5:

1) AUC library Book

• Ogden, Jane
• The psychology of eating : from healthy to disordered behavior / Jane Ogden.
• Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub
• 2003
• RC552.E18 O47 2003

2) AUC library Book

• Michel, Deborah Marcontell
• When dieting becomes dangerous : a guide to understanding and treating anorexia and bulimia
• New Haven : Yale University Press
• 2003
• Electronic source

3) AUC Video

• Slim hopes : advertising and the obsession with thinness
• BF697.5.B63 S642 2002

Blog 4

1- What is the relationship between dieting and anorexia?

2- Toölgyes, T., & Nemessury, J. (2004, August). Epidemiological studies on adverse dieting behaviours and eating disorders among young people in Hungary. Social Psychiatry & Psychiatric Epidemiology, 39(8), 647-654. Retrieved July 1, 2009, doi:10.1007/s00127-004-0781-1

3-Woolrich, Rachel A., Myra J. Cooper, and Hannah M. Turner. "Metacognition in patients with anorexia nervosa, dieting and non-dieting women: a preliminary study." European Eating Disorders Review 16.1 (Jan. 2008): 11-20. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. AUC library, Cairo, 1 July 2009 http://0-search.ebscohost.com.lib.aucegypt.edu/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=27968747&site=ehost-live.

4- Jones, Lucy. "Clinton's Last Push for Peace." Washington Report on Middle East Affairs 20.2 (Mar. 2001): 33. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. AUC library, Cairo. 1 July 2009 .