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The Adverse Effect Of Negative Comments About Weight And Shape From Family And Siblings On Women At High Risk For Eating Disorders, R Striegel, C Taylor, S Bryson, A Celio Doyle, K Luce, D Cunning, L Abascal, R Rockwell, A Field, A Winzelberg, D Wilfley

Ruth H Striegel

OBJECTIVE:

Our purpose with this work was to examine the relationship between negative comments about weight, shape, and eating and social adjustment, social support, self-esteem, and perceived childhood abuse and neglect.

METHODS:

A retrospective study was conducted with 455 college women with high weight and shape concerns, who participated in an Internet-based eating disorder prevention program. Baseline assessments included: perceived family negative comments about weight, shape, and eating; social adjustment; social support; self-esteem; and childhood abuse and neglect. Participants identified 1 of 7 figures representing their maximum body size before age 18 and parental maximum body size.

RESULTS:

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Antecedent Life Events Of Binge-Eating Disorder, R Striegel, K Pike, D Wilfley, A Hilbert, C Fairburn, F Dohm

Ruth H Striegel

The present study investigated the occurrence of life events preceding the onset of disturbed eating in binge-eating disorder (BED). In a case-control design, 162 matched pairs of black and white women with BED and women with no current psychiatric disorder, and 107 matched pairs of women with BED and a current general psychiatric disorder were recruited from the community for the New England Women's Health Project. Life events in the year before the onset of disturbed eating were assessed retrospectively with an investigator-based interview. Women with BED reported exposure to a significantly greater number of life events during the year …