TY  - JOUR
A1  - Sehm, Marie
A1  - Warschburger, Petra
T1  - The Specificity of Psychological Factors Associated with Binge Eating in Adolescent Boys and Girls
JF  - Journal of abnormal child psychology : devoted to studies of behavioral pathology in childhood and adolescence ; an official publication of the International Society for Research in Child and Adolescent Psychopathology
N2  - Low self-esteem, lack of interoceptive awareness, perfectionism, body dissatisfaction, dietary restraint, weight teasing, and internalization of the societal body ideal are known to be associated with binge eating (BE) in adolescents. The purpose of the present cross-sectional study was to investigate whether these attributes are BE-specific and whether different patterns exist for boys and girls. We assessed BE, internalizing symptoms and psychological factors in 1039 adolescents from a community sample by self-report. Using multinomial logistic regression and controlling for measured height and weight, we compared adolescents with BE with individuals from a healthy control group and adolescents reporting internalizing symptoms. Individuals from the BE-group reported a greater lack of interoceptive awareness and higher body dissatisfaction than individuals from the healthy control group. Additionally, we found a significant interaction between gender and body dissatisfaction. Internalization of the societal body ideal was related to BE when compared to internalizing symptoms. Results suggest, that the lack of interoceptive awareness and body dissatisfaction display substantial associations with BE, and that the latter effect is especially strong in boys. The internalization of societal standards of beauty emerged as a BE-specific factor and this finding emphasizes the role of the societal body ideal in the nature of eating pathology in boys and in girls. Increasing body satisfaction and the acceptance of realistic body ideals might be effective strategies in preventing eating pathology.
KW  - Binge eating
KW  - Eating pathology
KW  - Adolescence
KW  - Girls
KW  - Boys
KW  - Internalizing symptoms
Y1  - 2015
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1007/s10802-015-0026-7
SN  - 0091-0627
SN  - 1573-2835
VL  - 43
IS  - 8
SP  - 1563
EP  - 1571
PB  - Springer
CY  - New York
ER  -