Binge eating and purging behaviors are associated with significant harm and distress
among adolescents. The process by which these behaviors develop (often in the high …

The presence of binge eating behavior in early middle school predicts future diagnoses and
health difficulties. We showed that this early binge eating behavior can be predicted by risk …

One's expectancies for reinforcement from eating or from thinness are thought to represent
summaries of one's eating-related learning history and to thus influence the development of …

The authors tested the following risk model for disordered eating in late elementary school-
age boys: Pubertal status is associated with increases in negative urgency, that is, the …

The authors applied person–environment transaction theory to test the acquired
preparedness model of eating disorder risk. The model holds that (a) middle-school girls …

A sample of 353 community adolescents (grades 9 to 12, 57.6% female) participated in a 2-
wave longitudinal study of eating behaviors (overeating, loss of control eating [LOC], and …

Because no single report has examined risk factors that predict future onset each type of
eating disorder and core symptom dimensions that crosscut disorders, we addressed these …

The continuum of adolescent behavior addressed by the term “disordered eating” is
complex. For decades the term has been more commonly associated with the severe end of …

Prospective studies have identified risk factors that predict future onset of eating disorders,
but none has provided a test of the temporal sequencing of the emergence of risk factors …

The objective of this study was to characterize the temporal sequencing of symptom
emergence for anorexia nervosa (AN), bulimia nervosa (BN), binge eating disorder (BED) …