TABLE 1.
Descriptive statistics for questionnaire data.
| Measure | Sport type | Men (n = 102) | Women (n = 177) | Sample (n = 209) |
| EDI-DT | No sport | 6.32 (6.78) | 9.29 (6.93) | 8.43 (6.99) |
| Team | 2.97 (3.05) | 10.07 (7.78) | 6.88 (7.06) | |
| Individual | 3.69 (3.71) | 10.72 (7.24) | 8.69 (7.14) | |
| All Athletes | 3.33 (3.38) | 10.39 (7.51) | 7.78 (7.10) | |
| Sample | 3.97 (4.64) | 9.89 (7.34) | 7.7 (7.07) | |
| EDI-BD | No sport | 9.39 (8.23) | 14.66 (9.47) | 13.13 (9.4) |
| Team | 6.60 (4.6) | 14.04 (10.08) | 10.7 (8.88) | |
| Individual | 5.62 (4.41) | 12.84 (7.59) | 10.76 (7.54) | |
| All Athletes | 6.11 (4.5) | 13.44 (8.83) | 10.73 (8.21) | |
| Sample | 7.23 (5.89) | 14.06 (9.41) | 11.54 (8.91) | |
| EDI-B | No sport | 4.14 (5.3) | 3.44 (4.18) | 3.65 (4.52) |
| Team | 2.55 (2.55) | 4.07 (5.14) | 3.38 (4.23) | |
| Individual | 2.77 (2.65) | 3.75 (4.19) | 3.47 (3.81) | |
| All Athletes | 2.66 (2.6) | 3.91 (4.66) | 3.43 (4.02) | |
| Sample | 3.01 (3.56) | 3.77 (4.6) | 3.49 (4.26) | |
| DERS | No sport | 85.54 (23.87) | 76.01 (18.4) | 78.79 (20.49) |
| Team | 78.6 (22.39) | 76.45 (24.67) | 77.41 (23.61) | |
| Individual | 71.46 (16.8) | 69.88 (14.11) | 70.33 (14.76) | |
| All Athletes | 75.03 (19.59) | 73.16 (19.39) | 73.87 (19.19) | |
| Sample | 79.58 (22.42) | 75.09 (20.78) | 76.75 (21.47) | |
| TAS-DIF | No sport | 13.39 (6.34) | 13.04 (4.39) | 13.15 (5.00) |
| Team | 14.06 (6.7) | 12.82 (6.05) | 13.38 (6.36) | |
| Individual | 13.23 (5) | 11.22 (4.64) | 11.8 (4.78) | |
| All Athletes | 13.65 (5.85) | 12.02 (5.35) | 12.59 (5.57) | |
| Sample | 13.78 (6.37) | 12.61 (5.23) | 13.04 (5.69) | |
| TAS-DDF | No sport | 12.36 (4.09) | 11.71 (4.23) | 11.9 (4.18) |
| Team | 11.82 (4.11) | 11.09 (4.45) | 11.42 (4.3) | |
| Individual | 10.62 (3.36) | 10.97 (4.36) | 10.87 (4.06) | |
| All Athletes | 11.22 (3.73) | 11.03 (4.4) | 11.14 (4.18) | |
| Sample | 11.82 (4.01) | 11.31 (4.33) | 11.49 (4.22) | |
| SPIN | No sport | 21.07 (15.5) | 20.35 (11.41) | 20.56 (12.66) |
| Team | 16.56 (10.56) | 16.01 (12.08) | 16.26 (11.39) | |
| Individual | 16.15 (10.08) | 18.66 (12.01) | 17.93 (11.43) | |
| All Athletes | 16.36 (10.32) | 17.33 (12.05) | 17.1 (11.41) | |
| Sample | 17.74 (12.1) | 18.17 (11.91) | 18.01 (11.96) | |
| RMET | No sport | 25.43 (5.15) | 27.44 (3.24) | 26.85 (3.97) |
| Team | 25.11 (4.88) | 27.04 (3.38) | 26.17 (4.22) | |
| Individual | 26.38 (3.71) | 26.28 (3.48) | 26.31 (3.51) | |
| All Athletes | 25.75 (4.29) | 26.66 (3.43) | 26.24 (3.86) | |
| Sample | 25.36 (4.80) | 27.06 (3.35) | 26.43 (4.02) |
Values are presented as [M (SD)] and are based on raw scores; EDI-DT, Eating Disorders Inventory [EDI] Drive for Thinness subscale; EDI-BD, EDI Body Dissatisfaction Subscale; EDI-B, EDI Bulimia Subscale; DERS, Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale (total score); TAS-DIF, Toronto Alexithymia Scale Difficulty Identifying Feelings subscale; TAS-DDF, Toronto Alexithymia Scale, Difficulty Describing Feelings subscale; SPIN, Social Phobia Inventory; RMET, Reading Mind in the Eyes Task; BMI, Body Mass Index; Team Athletes: Men = 62, Women = 76; Individual Athletes: Men = 13, Women = 32; Non-athletes: Men = 40, Women = 68; All Athletes: Men = 87, Women = 96. Bold = Descriptive values for the whole sample; Italics = Descriptive values for all athletes combined (individual and team).