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Network Analysis as an Alternative Approach to Conceptualizing Eating Disorders: Implications for Research and Treatment.
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- Network-based methods for psychometric data of eating disorders: A systematic review.PloS one · 2022Pooled it
- A systematic review of network analysis studies in eating disorders: Is time to broaden the core psychopathology to non specific symptoms.European eating disorders review : the journal of the Eating Disorders Association · 2021Pooled it
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- Associations between sexual minority and intraminority stressors and thinness- and muscularity-oriented eating and body image disturbances in sexual minoritized men: Variable-centered, person-centered, and network analyses.Eating and weight disorders : EWD · 2026Article
- Pathways to improved treatment of anorexia nervosa: a need for reconceptualization.Journal of eating disorders · 2026Article
- Bidirectional temporal relationships between emotional state and eating across eating disorders: a network approach.Journal of eating disorders · 2026Article
- Beyond diagnosis: a network approach to the emotional and control processes involved in the binge eating spectrum disorders.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Eating disorder symptoms and corresponding evidence-based treatments: a narrative review.Journal of eating disorders · 2026Review
- Network analysis of eating disorders (NAMED): an exploratory study of symptom configuration at different stages of illness.Journal of eating disorders · 2025Article
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- Psychosocial symptom networks and high-risk sexual behaviors among men who have sex with men: a network analysis.BMC psychology · 2025Article
- Examining Clinical Symptoms and Personological Traits in Adolescents With Anorexia Nervosa: A Network Analysis Approach.Journal of clinical psychology · 2025Article
- Emotion dysregulation and eating disorder symptoms: a network analysis in college students with subclinical eating disorders.Journal of eating disorders · 2025Article
- Identifying key psychological characteristics among Chinese individuals with eating disorders: an exploratory graph and network analysis.Journal of eating disorders · 2025Article
- Validating the Chinese version of the Apathy Motivation Index and network analysis of apathy subtypes in a healthy Chinese sample.Behavior research methods · 2025Article
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- The Psychological and Medical Landscape of Anorexia Nervosa over a Decade: A Retrospective Study of Possible Physical and Psychological Shifts.Journal of clinical medicine · 2023Article
- The network structure of mania symptoms differs between people with and without binge eating.Bipolar disorders · 2023Article
- Network structure of emotional and behavioral problems, loneliness, and suicidal thoughts in adolescents at the school closure and reopening stage in China.Translational pediatrics · 2023Article
- Cognitive and Interpersonal Factors in Adolescent Inpatients with Anorexia Nervosa: A Network Analysis.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
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Abstract
purpose of reviewNetwork analysis (NA) is an emerging methodology that allows for the characterization of maintaining symptoms and pathways among symptoms of mental disorders. The current paper provides background on NA and discusses the relevance of the network approach for the conceptualization of eating disorders (ED). RECENT
findingsWe review the burgeoning literature conceptualizing ED from a network approach. Overall, these papers find that fear of weight gain and overvaluation of weight and shape are core symptoms in networks of ED pathology. We integrate literature on new advances in network methodology (e.g., within-person NA) and the clinical relevance of these approaches for the ED field (e.g., personalized ED treatment). We also provide several considerations (e.g., replicability, sample size, and node (item) selection) for researchers who are interested in using network science and recommend several emerging "best practices" for NA. Finally, we highlight novel applications of NA, specifically the ability to identify within-person maintaining symptoms, and the potential treatment implications for ED that network methods may hold. Overall, NA is a new methodology that holds significant promise for new treatment development in the ED field.
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