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The bulimia test: Factor structure in junior high school, high school, and college women
Author(s) -
Stein David M.,
Brinza Sally R.
Publication year - 1989
Publication title -
international journal of eating disorders
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.785
H-Index - 138
eISSN - 1098-108X
pISSN - 0276-3478
DOI - 10.1002/1098-108x(198903)8:2<225::aid-eat2260080212>3.0.co;2-h
Subject(s) - overeating , psychology , binge eating , test (biology) , developmental psychology , clinical psychology , eating disorders , medicine , paleontology , biology , obesity
The present study examines the principal components structure of the Bulimia Test, developed originally with college women. In the present study, college women and junior high school and high school student samples from a rural catchment area were included. Overall, results suggest a high level of congruence, with good replication of factors across samples. The exception was the basic concept of binging. Follow‐up interviews of adolescent subjects suggested that younger women may often misconstrue the meaning of important inventory items, e.g., that the term binge pertains to simple overeating. Thus, such subjects are prone to overacknowledge symptoms and thereby erroneously inflate prevalence estimates. The implications are that the validity of the binge factor of the original Bulimia Test may be questionable for younger subjects.