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 …

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 …

Objective This study tested this risk model for disordered eating in preadolescent girls:
pubertal onset is associated with increases in negative urgency (the personality tendency to …

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 …

Anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa pose major nutritional, psychological, and medical
problems in adolescence. Early identification of individuals with behaviors characteristic of …

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 …

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 …

This study examined longitudinal predictors of future eating problems in 435 female
adolescents in Grades 7, 8, and 10, who were tested at two time points 8 months apart …

Maladaptive eating patterns were traced longitudinally in a large random sample of children.
Pickiness and concern with weight were more common in girls than in boys, and the …