Risk for Eating Disorders in a School-Based Twin Sample: Are Twins Representative of the General Population for Eating Disordered Behavior?
- 1 January 1999
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Eating Disorders
- Vol. 7 (1) , 33-41
- https://doi.org/10.1080/10640269908249276
Abstract
The authors investigated the validity of the representativeness assumption in twin studies of eating pathology by examining whether twins are representative of the general population for eating disorder behavior. Eating disorder behaviors were quantified by a 21-item risk measure in two school-based female adolescent samples:Keywords
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