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Seventy-seven purging and 48 nonpurging eating-disordered outpatients were compared in terms of several major behavioral and psychological characteristics of this disorder. The study sought to determine whether the patient's current weight affect the importance of purging in eating eating disorders. It also examined whether the patient's level of psychological distress is linked with the differences between purgers and nonpurgers in certain illness associated characteristics. The findings are discussed.
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A study of 241 women college students using the Eating Disorder Inventory and other scales to measure psychopathological inclinations revealed that both ego dysfunction and abnormal eating were strongly related to depression and anxiety while there was less correlation with fears, obsessions and compulsions, magical ideation, dissociation and perceptual aberration. Vulnerability to eating disorders thus seems more closely related to depression and anxiety than to dissociation.
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The relationship between abnormal eating behavior and dissociative disorders is investigated. The results showed that there was a connection between abnormal eating and dissociative experiences, especially in the case of women. However, the results also indicated that dissociation was more strongly associated with ego dysfunction rather than to abnormal eating in itself.
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