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An empirical study of the typology of bulimic symptoms in young Portuguese women
Pinheiro, Andrea Poyastro; Bulik, Cynthia M.; Sullivan, Patrick F.; Machado, Paulo P. P.Objective: To investigate whether clusters of bulimic symptoms exist in a community sample of young Portuguese women. Method: A total of 2028 females, aged 12–23 years, completed the Eating Disorder Examination Questionnaire (EDE-Q). Latent class analysis was applied to the seven bulimic symptoms, age, and body mass index. Results: The selected 4-class solution yielded a ‘‘healthy’’ class, reporting minimal bin...
Date: 2008
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Origin: RepositóriUM - Universidade do Minho