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Objective: The present study examined whether patients with histories of sexual abuse reported a higher degree of pathological eating behaviors and attitudes than a nonsexually abused control group. Method: Subjects, 134 psychiatric inpatients, completed the Eating Disorder Inventory ( E D ) to assess eatingpathology, and a questionnaire thatgathered information regarding sexual abuse experiences. Results: A logistic regression model found that a complex of ED1 subscales was significantly related to a history of childhood abuse. Exploratory analyses found that survivors of sexual abuse obtained higher scores on the ED/ subscales scores of Drive for Thinness, Interpersonal Distrust, Perfectionism, and lnteroceptive Awareness. Further, the mean score for sexual abuse survivors without an eating disorder on the majority of ED1 subscales was above established means for eating-disordered groups. Discussion: These findings suggest that inpatients with a history of sexual abuse are likely to present with eating disorder symptomatology. 0 1996 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Recently, there has been a growing interest in the relationship between sexual abuse and eating disorders. However, contr

Who reads The Relationship Between Sexual Abuse and Eating Pathology?

Author

Caron Zlotnick; Leigh Anne Hohlstein; M. Tracie Shea; Teri Pearlstein; Pat Recupero; Kahil Bidadi

Publisher

Wiley (John Wiley & Sons); John Wiley & Sons Inc.; Wiley (ISSN 0276-3478)

Published

1996

Language

EN

Field

Psychology (Social Sciences)