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Bivariate analysis of disordered eating characteristics in adolescence and young adulthood.
The International journal of eating disorders - 1 Dec 2010
Munn Melissa A, Stallings Michael C, Rhee Soo Hyun, Sobik Laura E, Corley Robin P, Rhea Sally Ann, Hewitt John K
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OBJECTIVE: We examined the etiology of two disordered eating characteristics. METHOD: Participants included 1,470 female adolescent and young adult twins and their female nontwin siblings. Phenotypic factor analyses of a seven-item eating pathology screening tool yielded two factors: weight and shape concerns and behaviors (WSCB) and binge eating (BE). Univariate and bivariate extended twin analyses (including...
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