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Continuity and Discontinuity Models of Bulimia Nervosa: A Taxometric Investigation
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Continuity and Discontinuity Models of Bulimia Nervosa: A Taxometric Investigation

David H Gleaves, Michael R Lowe, Alicia C Snow, Bradley A Green and Kathleen P Murphy-Eberenz
Journal of abnormal psychology (1965), v 109(1)
Feb 2000
PMID: 10740936

Abstract

Past research evaluating the continuity and discontinuity models of bulimia has produced inconclusive results. In the current study, we performed a taxometric analysis of bulimia nervosa using means above minus below a sliding cut and maximum covariance analysis with a sample of women diagnosed with bulimia nervosa ( n = 201) or women college students ( n = 412). Indicators were derived from the Bulimia Test-Revised and the Eating Attitudes Test-26, and both a mixed sample and the nonclinical sample were analyzed. With both taxometric methods and both mixed and nonclinical samples, results were consistently suggestive of a latent taxon for bulimia. These results challenge a dimensional model of bulimia nervosa.

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