Background Deficits in emotion regulation are known to characterize disordered eating
patterns including binge eating, purging, and dietary restraint, though much of this work has …

This study sought to identify distinct trajectory classes of growth of disordered eating (DE),
and their respective correlates and risk factors. Females ages 12–19 years (Australian Twin …

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 …

Objectives Eating-related disinhibition (ie, a tendency to overeat in response to various
stimuli) is associated with weight gain and poorer long-term weight loss success …

Today more than one third of US youth are classified as overweight or obese. Childhood
obesity is a serious condition associated with medical complications and psychosocial …

Objective We examined the association between the genetic and environmental factors
contributing to the liability to having ever engaged in self‐induced vomiting (SIV initiation) …

Boys appear to engage in eating disorder behavior, particularly nonpurging compensatory
behaviors such as driven exercise and fasting, at higher rates than previously thought. Little …

In recent years, eating disorder researchers have made good progress on understanding
risk factors for the development of eating disorder pathology. It may also be true that bulimic …

Utilizing a qualitative design, the study aimed to identify emotionally positive and functional
themes related to feeling physically empty that served to maintain purging and restricting. A …

Eating disorder expectancy theory proposes a causal role for expectancies for reinforcement
from thinness. The authors conducted an experimental test of that hypothesis …