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Purging Disorder: An Exploratory Investigation of Phenomenology, Psychological Correlates, and Distinctiveness as a Diagnostic Category

Smith, Kathryn Elizabeth
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1301337284

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2011, MA, Kent State University, College of Arts and Sciences / Department of Psychological Sciences.
Purging Disorder (PD) is an understudied pattern of behaviors within the Eating Disorder Not Otherwise Specified (EDNOS) diagnostic category. Although such categorization suggests PD is not as clinically significant as other eating disorders, recent evidence has suggested otherwise. However, it remains to be determined if PD is distinct from other clinically significant eating disorder categories. Thus, the present study sought to assess the phenomenology, clinical significance, and distinctiveness of PD. Group scores on measures of eating pathology, body image disturbance, and psychological correlates were compared (using MANOVA) among a female undergraduate sample (N= 91) of PD (n= 17), Bulimia Nervosa (BN; n=35), restrained eaters (n=18), and healthy controls (n=21). Results indicated the PD group both differed from and resembled the BN and restrained eater groups on different variables. Findings support the conceptualization of PD as existing along a spectrum of bulimic spectrum disorders rather than as a distinct diagnostic category.
Janis Crowther (Advisor)
85 p.
Psychology
purging disorder; eating disorder

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  • Smith, K. E. (2011). Purging Disorder: An Exploratory Investigation of Phenomenology, Psychological Correlates, and Distinctiveness as a Diagnostic Category [Master's thesis, Kent State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1301337284

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Smith, Kathryn. Purging Disorder: An Exploratory Investigation of Phenomenology, Psychological Correlates, and Distinctiveness as a Diagnostic Category. 2011. Kent State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1301337284.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Smith, Kathryn. "Purging Disorder: An Exploratory Investigation of Phenomenology, Psychological Correlates, and Distinctiveness as a Diagnostic Category." Master's thesis, Kent State University, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1301337284

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