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 …

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 …

Because little is known about the predictors of binge eating (a risk factor for obesity), a set of
putative risk factors for binge eating was investigated in a longitudinal study of adolescent …

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 …

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

Although adolescent girls with elevated dietary restraint scores are at increased risk for
future binge eating and bulimic pathology, they do not eat less than those with lower …

To test the eating disorder expectancy theory contention that expectancies for reinforcement
from thinness play a causal role in body dissatisfaction and eating disorder symptoms, 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 …

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 …

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 …