The Eating Attitudes Test (EAT-26) is one of the most frequently used screening questionnaires for anorexia and bulimia nervosa for use with clinical and general populations. Although the psychometric qualities of the instrument have been reported for the English version, little has been done to date to validate a French version. A french version of the EAT-26 was distributed to anglophone students and francophone students, as well as anglophone and francophone patients. Overall, the results demonstrated that the authors' French version has the same psychometric characteristics as the English version when used with clinical and non clinical populations. The overall test and its subscales differentiated between patients and non patients similarly in both linguistic groups. The internal consistency of the two versions, as assessed by Cronbach's alpha, was comparable. Among female high-school students, 14.1% of the anglophone students and 14.3% of the francophone students scored above the cutoff score for significant eating disorders behaviour.

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This study compared psychological and family features of adolescents with varying degrees of eating and mood symptoms. Questionnaires (administered to 715 high school girls) assessed maladaptive eating, mood disturbances, body‐image concerns, traits of perfectionism, impulsivity, self‐criticism, and reported family in cohesion. Canonical correlation analysis and comparisons among groups displaying different combinations of eating and mood symptoms suggested the following: that concurrent mood and eating symptoms were linked to an aberrant psychological profile, characterized by body concerns, multiple psychological issues, and family in cohesion. Circumscribed eating disturbances were associated with body concerns, but an otherwise intact profile. Mood disturbances were associated with an again more‐disturbed psychological and family profile, but in which body concerns were unremarkable. Shared psychological and family features appeared to represent a possible basis for concurrence of mood and eating symptoms evident in our no clinical population, and were discussed in the light of a “two‐component” model of the eating disorders proposed by Garner, Olmsted, Polivy & Carfinkel (1984).

Cet article traite des diverses approches conceptuelles fondant l'étude des facteurs de risque et de protection chez les jeunes enfants. Le construit de résilience est également abordée dans l'optique d'une reconceptualisation de nos connaissances sur les problèmes d'adaptation. Une description succincte, mais critique, des conceptions contemporaines et des modèles écosystémique et biosocial sera également présentée. L'analyse de ces facteurs sera effectuée en référence aux caractéristiques individuelles et aux différents contextes de développement de l'enfant tels la famille et l'expérience en groupe de pairs. Par la suite, une recension critique de la documentation scientifique dans le domaine permettra de circonscrire les limites et les orientations de recherche qui pourraient être privilégiées. Enfin, dans une perspective de prévention, nous amorcerons une réflexion sur les retombées de la synthèse effectuée pour les pratiques en intervention précoce, et conséquemment pour l'adaptation scolaire.