To investigate whether there are different patterns of development for binge eating and
purging behavior among preadolescent and early adolescent girls, we conducted trajectory …

This prospective study examined age of onset for binge eating and purging among girls
during late adolescence and tested whether dieting and negative affectivity predicted these …

The purpose of this study was to examine the occurrence and covariation of four eating
disorder behaviors across the elementary, middle, and high school years. In a sample of …

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 …

Compensatory exercise and fasting behavior, in the absence of binge eating and purging,
appear to be important eating disorder behaviors that are associated with dysfunction, but …

Because research has not examined the predictors of the onset and cessation of specific
bulimic behaviors, the present study tested whether a series of putative risk factors predicted …

Objective The very early engagement in bulimic behaviors, such as binge eating, may be
influenced by factors that dispose individuals to impulsive action as well as by factors that …

Eating disorder symptomatology is highly prevalent in adolescence and is regarded one of
the most important precursors of clinical eating disorders. The present longitudinal study …

Bulimic behaviors have been reported in the psychiatric and psychoanalytic literature for
more than a century. However, it was only in the late 1970s that" bulimia nervosa" was …

While bulimia nervosa (BN) typically begins in girls during late adolescence, puberty and
associated developmental changes have been linked to negative body image and onset of a …