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- Title
Structure of disordered eating in a twin community sample.
- Authors
Wade, Tracey; Tiggemann, Marika; Heath, Andrew C.; Abraham, Suzanne; Treloar, Susan A.; Martin, Nicholas G.
- Abstract
To describe the types of eating problems experienced by women in an Australian twin population. For those women experiencing problems with eating, five groups could be identified. These were overweight women who were dissatisfied with their weight and shape, underweight women struggling with anorexic behaviors, women who were having problems with binging, women who were using more extreme methods of weight control such as vomiting, laxatives, and starvation, and overweight women who were using slimming and fluid tablets for weight control. Confirmatory factor analysis suggested that this factor model is an acceptable fit to the data and that the factor structure generalizes well across two groups viz, the first-born and second-born twins. It was concluded that future studies aiming to develop a general description of eating problems in the community should specifically assess the purging behaviors used by women.
- Subjects
AUSTRALIA; COMPULSIVE eating; EATING disorders; TWINS; OVERWEIGHT women; WEIGHT loss; PUBLIC health; PATHOLOGICAL psychology; MEDICAL research
- Publication
International Journal of Eating Disorders, 1996, Vol 19, Issue 1, p63
- ISSN
0276-3478
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/(SICI)1098-108X(199601)19:1<63::AID-EAT8>3.0.CO;2-U