Subtyping women with bulimia nervosa along dietary and negative affect dimensions: A replication in a treatment-seeking sample
- 1 March 2001
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Nature in Eating and Weight Disorders - Studies on Anorexia, Bulimia and Obesity
- Vol. 6 (1) , 53-58
- https://doi.org/10.1007/bf03339753
Abstract
Recent cluster-analysis studies of women with bulimia nervosa (BN) have suggested two subtypes, a pure dietary subtype and a mixed dietary-negative affect. We aimed to replicate the subtyping findings in a clinical study group of 48 adult women with BN. Cluster analyses revealed a dietary-negative affect subtype (56% of cases) and a pure dietary subtype (44% of cases). The dietary-negative affect subtype was characterized by significantly greater eating-related attitudinal psychopathology and associated psychological disturbance. Our findings suggest that severe restraint is a central feature of BN and that affective disturbance, which occurs in roughly half of cases, is associated with greater eating-related attitudinal psychopathology and psychological symptomatology.Keywords
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