A Comparative Study on Eating Disorders between Male and Female Swimmers

The purpose of this study was to compare the eating disorders between male and female swimmers. For achieving the purpose of the study, Total 30 (thirty) subjects were taken from All India Inter University Swimming tournament held at Panjab University, Chandigarh (2016), N1=15 male (K.U.K University, M.D.U University, Panjab University and N2=15 female (Delhi University, Guru Nanak Dev University, Panjab University of Chandigarh). The purposive sampling technique was used to select the subject. The average age of the Male and Female All India inter-university Swimmers were 20 to 27 years. To compare eating disorders between the two groups Eating Attitudes Test (EAT-26) (Garner et.al.1982) questionnaire was used. The Independent t-test was applied to assess the difference between them. The level of significant was kept at 0.05 level of confident. The results show that there was an insignificant difference in eating disorders between male and female all India inter-university swimming players.