Objective: While eating-disordered individuals have shown high levels of comorbi

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Objective: While eating-disordered individuals have shown high levels of comorbid psychopathol-

ogy, there has not been an assessment of these symptoms across groups exhibiting different forms of

problematic eating behavior.

Method: Using 1,122 participants recruited via Amazon Mechanical

Turk, this study examined self-reported differences between controls, restrained eaters, and individuals

meeting criteria for binge eating disorder and bulimia nervosa on several measures of psychopathology

unrelated to eating.

Results: On nearly all outcome measures, eating-disordered participants had

greater symptoms of psychopathology compared to restrained eaters, who had greater levels com-

pared to controls. Among the eating-disordered participants, bulimia nervosa participants had more

symptoms of psychopathology than binge eating-disordered participants.

Conclusion: Treatment

of the populations included in this study may be informed by an understanding of the different amounts

of symptoms of comorbid psychopathology that confer additional distress and impairment above and

beyond disordered eating behavior.

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2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J. Clin. Psychol. 72:621–632, 2016

QUESTIONS

1) what is the hypothesis

2) what is the theory

3) what is the dependent variable

4) what is the independent variable

5) what is the confounding problem

6) what is the result

7) Is the researcher important

Explanation / Answer

1. The hypothesis is that there will be a difference in the self-reported between controls, restrained eaters, and individuals meeting criteria for binge eating disorder and bulimia nervosa on several measures of psychopathology unrelated to eating

2. The theory is that eating-disordered individuals will show high levels of comorbid psychopathology when compared to groups exhibiting different forms of problematic eating behavior.

3. Dependent variable was the symptoms of psychopathology

4. Independent variables were the controls, restrained eaters, and individuals meeting criteria for binge eating disorder and bulimia nervosa

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