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Core beliefs and bulimic symptomatology in non‐eating‐disordered women: The mediating role of borderline characteristics
Author(s) -
Meyer Caroline,
Leung Newman,
Feary Rachel,
Mann Baljit
Publication year - 2001
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/eat.1104
Subject(s) - psychology , shame , borderline personality disorder , schema (genetic algorithms) , clinical psychology , mediator , personality , developmental psychology , social psychology , medicine , machine learning , computer science
Objective To establish whether borderline personality disorder symptoms play a mediating role in the relationship between early maladaptive schemata and bulimic symptomatology, using a nonclinical sample. Method Sixty‐one female undergraduate students completed the Bulimic Investigatory Test, Edinburgh (BITE), the Borderline Syndrome Index (BSI), and the short form of the Young Schema Questionnaire (YSQ). Results Borderline symptoms were found to be a perfect mediator in the relationship between defectiveness/shame beliefs and bulimic symptomatology. Conclusions A model is proposed suggesting that the functional utility of bulimic behaviors might be in counteracting the negative emotions associated with borderline symptoms. © 2001 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Int J Eat Disord 30: 434–440, 2001.