Background This study provides an integrative review of existing risk factors and models for
bulimia nervosa (BN) in young girls. We offer a new model for BN that describes two …

Emotions are implicated in the etiology and maintenance of binge eating (BE). It is largely
unknown whether BE is more strongly tied to emotions for certain individuals. This study …

Compensatory exercise (exercise performed in an effort to control weight/shape or in
response to caloric intake) and thinness expectancies (beliefs that thinness will improve the …

Abstract Binge Eating Disorder (BED) is characterized by recurrent episodes of binge eating
without the use of compensatory behaviors. Functional accounts of BED propose that …

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

There appear to be a set of behaviors that belong to a common response class, which are
characterized by rash, impulsive actions that provide immediate relief from intense negative …

This study investigated whether risk factors (such as SPA and type of sport) and protective
factors (such as social support) increased or decreased female athletes' chances of …

Research on self-control suggests that people do not do as well at self-control after they
have already exerted self-control on something else. Despite the obvious importance of self …