The struggle to be thin: a survey of anorexic and bulimic symptoms in a non-referred adolescent population
- 1 February 1989
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Psychological Medicine
- Vol. 19 (1), 143-163
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0033291700011107
Abstract
Synopsis: Ninety-one per cent of a county-wide high school population (N= 5596) completed the Eating Symptoms Inventory (ESI) and the Eating Attitudes Test (EAT). Being female, older and heavier are far more strongly associated with anorexic and bulimic symptoms than is social class. ESI approximations of the DSM-III criteria for anorexia nervosa or bulimia suggest that while both conditions are rare (less than 1%), bulimia is the more prevalent disorder.This publication has 31 references indexed in Scilit:
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