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Childhood sexual and physical abuse in Spanish female undergraduates: Does it affect eating disturbances?
- Source :
- European Eating Disorders Review; Jan2012, Vol. 20 Issue 1, pe32-e41, 10p
- Publication Year :
- 2012
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Abstract
- Objective To assess the relationship between childhood sexual and physical abuse, and key attitudinal and behavioural aspects of eating disorders (ED). Method Participants included 708 female undergraduates in a Spanish public university, aged from 18 to 30. Abuse was measured by the Traumatic Life Events Questionnaire, and ED by the Eating Disorders Examination Questionnaire (EDE-Q). Results 14.3% of the sample had suffered childhood sexual abuse (CSA) and 3.8% childhood physical abuse (CPA). With respect to ED attitudinal features, we observed an increased Weight Concern score among CSA survivors. No association was found between this kind of abuse and disordered eating behaviours, after adjusting for depression, anxiety, self-esteem, body mass index, age and socioeconomic status. An inverse relationship was found between CPA and ED attitudes measured by EDE-Q (Restraint, Weight Concern, Shape Concern and the Overall Score), whereas no association was found with the behavioural aspects of eating disturbances. Discussion After controlling for different risk factors, CSA appears to be related to an increased Weight Concern, whilst other ED attitudinal features and behaviours do not seem to be related to childhood abuse. The inverse relationship found is discussed. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd and Eating Disorders Association. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- BODY weight
PSYCHOLOGY of adult child abuse victims
ATTITUDE (Psychology)
BODY image
CHILD abuse
CHILD sexual abuse
COLLEGE students
CONFIDENCE intervals
STATISTICAL correlation
EATING disorders
EPIDEMIOLOGY
LIFE change events
PSYCHOLOGICAL tests
QUESTIONNAIRES
SCALE analysis (Psychology)
SCALES (Weighing instruments)
SELF-esteem testing
SELF-evaluation
STATISTICS
LOGISTIC regression analysis
DATA analysis
MULTIPLE regression analysis
SOCIOECONOMIC factors
PREDICTIVE validity
DATA analysis software
DESCRIPTIVE statistics
PSYCHOLOGY
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 10724133
- Volume :
- 20
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- European Eating Disorders Review
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 70094149
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1002/erv.1086