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Compulsive eating, obsessive thoughts of food, and their relation to assertiveness and depression in women
Author(s) -
Ghiz Laurie,
Chrisler Joan C.
Publication year - 1995
Publication title -
journal of clinical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.124
H-Index - 119
eISSN - 1097-4679
pISSN - 0021-9762
DOI - 10.1002/1097-4679(199507)51:4<491::aid-jclp2270510404>3.0.co;2-9
Subject(s) - psychology , disinhibition , clinical psychology , eating attitudes test , assertiveness , overweight , beck depression inventory , depression (economics) , binge eating , population , psychiatry , eating disorders , anxiety , obesity , demography , social psychology , medicine , sociology , economics , macroeconomics
Fifty‐three self‐defined compulsive eaters recruited from weight loss programs and a college population and prescreened to eliminate probable anorexics and bulimics participated in this study. They completed the Three Factor Eating Questionnaire, Beck Depression Inventory, Compulsive Eating Scale, Eating Obsessive‐Compulsive Questionnaire, Personal Assertion Analysis, and provided demographic information. Participants had high scores for compulsive eating and disinhibition and low scores for depression. The best predictors of compulsive eating were disinhibition and obsessive thoughts of food, which accounted for 61% of the variance. Twenty‐one percent of the sample reported a history of sexual abuse. Thirty‐one percent of the sample were classified as medically obese, yet 49% perceived themselves to be moderately to very overweight.