Anorexic Vulnerability among Undergraduate Female Students in Urban Mangalore

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ABSTRACT newlineIntroduction newlineAdolescence is the period of transition from childhood to adulthood and plays a decisive newlinerole in the formation of pro-social / antisocial adults. Webster defines adolescence as newlinecited in (Medovy, 1964) as the state or process of growing up from childhood to newlinemanhood or womanhood. It is estimated that there are 7.2 billion people worldwide, and newlineover 3 billion are younger than 25 years, making up 42% of the world population. newlineAround 1.2 billion of these young people are adolescents aged between 10 and 19 years newline(WHO, 2019). Adolescent age group constitutes around 22.8% (232million) of Indiaand#8223;s newlinepopulation and in that adolescent girls have a close to half representation that is newline111million of this population (The United Nations, 2011). Adolescence is a critical newlineperiod of growth and emotional turmoil since they experience a vast amount of physical newlinegrowth and development and there will be many factors which influence an adolescent newlinegirland#8223;s self-esteem, and body image is considered as one of the critical factors among newlinethem ( Divya, 2015). This is the point when there is a great chance of developing eating newlinedisorders. In chapter V of ICD-10 eating Disorders are classified as Anorexia Nervosa, newlineAtypical Anorexia Nervosa, Bulimia Nervosa, Atypical Bulimia Nervosa, Overeating newlineassociated with other psychological disturbances and Vomiting associated with other newlinepsychological disturbances (WHO, 2016). Anorexia Nervosa is a disorder which is newlinecharacterized by deliberate weight loss, induced and sustained by the patient.` Anorexia newlineNervosa is one of the highest mortality rates psychiatric disorders in the world. This newlinedisorder has a prevalence of about 0.3% in young women and more than twice as newlinecommon in teenage girls along with an average onset of 15 years and the notable fact is newline80-90% of patients of anorexia are female (Morris and Twaddle, 2014). The Indian youth newlineare embraced by new western models of eating and fashion so modernisation in any newlinesociety can influence ideas of autonomy and indi