A taxometric analysis of anorexia nervosa
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2012
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Gleaves, D.H.
Snow, A.
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Barbarich-Marsteller, N.C.
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Source details - Title: Anorexia Nervosa: Symptoms, treatment and neurobiology, 2012 / Barbarich-Marsteller, N.C. (ed./s), Ch.2, pp.23-44
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To examine the latent structure of anorexia nervosa, restricting type, we applied three taxometric procedures (MAMBAC, MAXEIG, and LMODE) to a sample of n = 196 anorexic women and n = 1092 female undergraduate students. Indicators for anorexia nervosa were body mass index and items taken from the Eating Attitudes Test-26. In analyses using a mixed sample, the results were consistently suggestive of a latent taxon for anorexia nervosa. However, in the undergraduate sample, results were less conclusive and more consistent with a dimensional model suggesting that the findings from the mixed sample may have been artifactual. The findings have implications for etiological models of eating disorders, for assessment of anorexia nervosa and for future taxometric research on anorexia nervosa or other eating disorders.
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Copyright 2012 Nova Science Publishers