The current study aimed to compare the prevalence, stability, and psychosocial correlates of DSM-IV-TR and DSM-5 eating disorders, in a population-based sample of male and female adolescents followed prospectively from 14 to 20 years of age. Participants (N = 1,383; 49% male) were drawn from the Western Australian Pregnancy Cohort (Raine) Study, a prospective, population-based cohort study that...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the reciprocal relationship between unhealthy eating behaviours and depressive symptoms from childhood to adolescence. DESIGN Unhealthy eating behaviours were measured by the frequencies of eating foods with excess salt, sugar or fat in the past week. Depressive symptoms in the past two weeks were measured using a seven-item scale. Hierarchical linear growth models we...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the relationship between binge eating behavior and weight loss maintenance over a two-year period in adults. DESIGN Secondary data analysis using the Keep It Off study, a randomized trial evaluating an intervention to promote weight loss maintenance. PARTICIPANTS 419 men and women (ages: 20 to 70 y; BMI: 20-44 kg/m2) who had intentionally lost ≥10% of their weight d...

BACKGROUND Presently, the internet plays a big role in daily life, especially for adolescents. In this age group, they are more concerned about their face and body shape. Despite the numerous studies on the effect traditional media has on body image, very few have focused on the effect of newer forms of media (e.g. online media). And almost none have looked at the relationship between time spen...

OBJECTIVE Examine longitudinal associations between sources of social support and social undermining for healthy eating and physical activity and weight change. METHODS Data are from 633 employed adults participating in a cluster-randomized multilevel weight gain prevention intervention. Primary predictors included social support and social undermining for two types of behaviors (healthy eati...

Objective—Examine longitudinal associations between sources of social support and social undermining for healthy eating and physical activity and weight change. Design and Methods—Data are from 633 employed adults participating in a clusterrandomized multilevel weight gain prevention intervention. Primary predictors included social support and social undermining for two types of behaviors (heal...

Previous research indicates that interindividual differences in the ability to perceive one's own bodily signals (interoceptive sensitivity, IS) are associated with disordered eating behavior and weight problems. But representative and prospective data in children are lacking and therefore, the exact nature of these observed associations remains unclear. Data on IS measured by heartbeat percept...

Objective: Many people, especially women, indulge in eating unhealthy food to cope with stress. Emotional eating may contribute to obesity and different eating disorders like bulimia nervosa and binge eating disorder. The present study aimed to investigate the role of emotion dysregulation in emotional eating behavior. Methods: A sample of 700 adults between the ages of 18 to 50 years was sele...

BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to examine whether the frequency of breakfast eating was related with overweight/obesity in Korean adolescents. METHOD We analyzed the data collected in the 5(th) KYRBWS, in which 72,399 adolescents participated in 2009. We assessed the association between frequency of breakfast eating and body mass index by using multivariate logistic regression analy...