ArticleThe International journal of eating disorders2021
The effects of puberty on associations between mood/personality factors and disordered eating symptoms in girls.
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- Advocacy through storytelling: challenging eating disorders and eating disorders stigma.Journal of eating disorders · 2024Article
- Estrogen moderation of genetic influences on eating disorder symptoms during gonadarche in girls: Specific effects on binge eating.Psychoneuroendocrinology · 2023Article
- Exploring the possibility of parents' broad internalizing phenotype acting through passive gene-environment correlations on daughters' disordered eating.Development and psychopathology · 2022Article
- An investigation of associations between parenting and binge eating across pubertal development in pre-adolescent and adolescent female participants.The International journal of eating disorders · 2022Article
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Abstract
objectiveNegative and positive urgency, anxiety, and depressive symptoms are significant factors of disordered eating (DE) symptoms in early adolescence through young adulthood. However, it is unclear how puberty-a critical developmental milestone that is associated with increased risk for DE symptoms-affects the relationship between these factors and DE symptoms, given that the role of pubertal status has rarely been considered in relation to these associations. Thus, the present study examined whether puberty moderates associations between mood/personality factors and DE in pre-adolescent and adolescent girls.
methodParticipants included 981 girls (aged 8-16 years) from the Michigan State University Twin Registry. Mood/personality factors, pubertal status, and DE were assessed with self-report questionnaires.
resultsPuberty significantly moderated associations between several factors (negative urgency, positive urgency, trait anxiety, depressive symptoms) and the cognitive symptoms of DE (e.g., shape/weight concerns, body dissatisfaction). Associations between mood/personality factors and cognitive DE were stronger in girls with more advanced pubertal status. By contrast, no significant moderation effects were detected for mood/personality-dysregulated eating (e.g., binge eating, emotional eating) associations. DISCUSSION: Findings identify pubertal development as an important moderator of mood/personality-DE symptom associations, especially for cognitive DE symptoms that are known to predict the later onset of clinical pathology.
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