ArticleJournal of eating disorders2016
Typical patterns of disordered eating among Swedish adolescents: associations with emotion dysregulation, depression, and self-esteem.
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- Emotional Dysregulation in Children and Adolescents With Psychiatric Disorders. A Narrative Review.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2021Pooled it
- A path model linking emotion regulation difficulties to disturbed eating and compensatory behavior in young females.Journal of eating disorders · 2025Article
- Networks of guilt, shame, pride, and disordered eating in youths show stability over time.Journal of research on adolescence : the official journal of the Society for Research on Adolescence · 2025Article
- Embodiment and Psychological Health in Adolescence: 1. Development and Validation of a Brief 12-item Questionnaireto Measure the Experience of Embodiment.Journal for person-oriented research · 2025Article
- Embodiment and Psychological Health in Adolescence: 2. Embodiment Profiles and their Association with Psychological Health Among Young Adolescents.Journal for person-oriented research · 2025Article
- Association Between Emotion Regulation and Body Image Concerns in a Group of Adolescent Boys: Interaction With the Internalization of the Sociocultural Body Ideal.Journal of emotional and behavioral disorders · 2024Article
- Subclinical patterns of disordered eating behaviors in the daily life of adolescents and young adults from the general population.Child and adolescent psychiatry and mental health · 2024Article
- "Good food equals good health": a focus group study of adolescent boys' perceptions of eating and weight.BMC public health · 2024Article
- Psychological correlates of body dissatisfaction in Swiss youth over a one-year study-period.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- Nutritional status and eating disorders among medical students from the Cluj-Napoca University centre.Clujul medical (1957) · 2018Article
- Disordered eating in a Swedish community sample of adolescent girls: subgroups, stability, and associations with body esteem, deliberate self-harm and other difficulties.Journal of eating disorders · 2018Article
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Abstract
backgroundUsing the person-oriented approach, we determined the relationships between four indicators (restraint and eating, shape, and weight concerns) of disordered eating (DE), as measured by the self-reported Eating Disorders Examination Questionnaire (EDE-Q), to identify typical DE patterns. We then related these patterns to clinical EDE-Q cut-off scores and emotion dysregulation, depression, self-esteem, and two categories of DE behaviors (≥2 or ≤1 "yes" responses on the SCOFF questionnaire).
methodTypical patterns of DE were identified in a community sample of 1,265 Swedish adolescents (
resultsThe cluster analysis yielded a six-cluster solution for each gender. Four of the six clusters for girls and five for boys showed scores above the clinical cut-off on at least one of the four DE indicators. For girls, the two clusters that scored above the clinical cut-offs on all four DE indicators reported severe psychological problems, including high scores on emotion dysregulation and depression and low scores on self-esteem. In contrast, for boys, although two clusters reported above the clinical cut-off on all four indicators, only the cluster with exceedingly high scores on shape and weight concerns reported high emotion dysregulation and depression, and extremely low self-esteem. Furthermore, significantly more girls and boys in the most problematic DE clusters reported ≥2 "yes" responses on the SCOFF questionnaire (as opposed to ≤1 response), indicating clear signs of DE and severe psychological difficulties.
conclusionWe suspect that the various problematic DE patterns will require different paths back to a healthy diet. However, more research is needed to determine the developmental trajectories of these DE patterns and ensure more precise clinical cut-off scores, especially for boys. Comprehensive understanding of DE patterns might be of use to healthcare professionals for detecting DE before it develops into an eating disorder.
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