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Psychosocial profiles of adolescent girls with varying degrees of eating and mood disturbances
Author(s) -
Steiger Howard,
Leung Freedom Y. K.,
PuentesNeuman Guadalupe,
Gottheil Neil
Publication year - 1992
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(199203)11:2<121::aid-eat2260110204>3.0.co;2-d
Subject(s) - mood , psychology , eating disorders , psychosocial , perfectionism (psychology) , clinical psychology , population , impulsivity , mood disorders , disordered eating , psychiatry , anxiety , medicine , environmental health
This study compared psychological and family features of adolescents with varying degrees of eating and mood symptoms. Questionnaires (administered to 715 high school girls) assessed maladaptive eating, mood disturbances, body‐image concerns, traits of perfectionism, impulsivity, self‐criticism, and reported family in cohesion. Canonical correlation analysis and comparisons among groups displaying different combinations of eating and mood symptoms suggested the following: that concurrent mood and eating symptoms were linked to an aberrant psychological profile, characterized by body concerns, multiple psychological issues, and family in cohesion. Circumscribed eating disturbances were associated with body concerns, but an otherwise intact profile. Mood disturbances were associated with an again more‐disturbed psychological and family profile, but in which body concerns were unremarkable. Shared psychological and family features appeared to represent a possible basis for concurrence of mood and eating symptoms evident in our no clinical population, and were discussed in the light of a “two‐component” model of the eating disorders proposed by Garner, Olmsted, Polivy & Carfinkel (1984).