The relationship between disordered eating behavior and drinking motives in college-age women

Anderson, Drew A.; Simmons, Angela; Martens, Matthew P.; Ferrier, Amanda G.; Sheehy, Melissa J.

doi:10.1016/j.eatbeh.2005.12.001

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“…Results suggested that problematic alcohol involvement was inversely related to eating to decrease negative affect, and for the purpose of pleasure and cognitive control -heavier drinkers tended not to eat for these reasons. The latter results are inconsistent with limited previous research with college women that found a positive link between eating pathology and drinking to cope motives (Anderson et al 2006;Luce et al 2007). They instead suggest that eating and alcohol serve different purposes among students.…”

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“…As with alcohol and gambling, specific motives were found to be associated with different patterns of eating behaviour, such that coping motives were positively associated with restrictive eating, binge eating, and purging; and social motives were negatively associated with restrictive eating, but were positively associated with binge eating and purging. The relationship between eating disorders and drinking motives has been investigated, whereby coping drinking motives in female students were linked with probable bulimia nervosa or binge eating disorder (Luce et al 2007) and eating pathology more generally (Anderson et al 2006). These studies did not assess eating motives.…”

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Problem Drinking, Gambling and Eating Among Undergraduate University Students. What are the Links?

Hodgins

Ranson

Montpetit

2015

Int J Ment Health Addiction

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Problematic drinking, gambling and eating are elevated among undergraduate university students but our understanding of how they are linked is limited. In this study, drinking, gambling and eating were assessed across a number of dimensions: drinking and gambling involvement, associated negative consequences, impairment of control, and motives; and disordered eating concerns and behaviours, loss of control over eating, and eating expectancies (N = 301). Canonical correlation analysis revealed that drinking and gambling were linked through a factor of general problematic involvement (R = 0.43): students who drank more, experienced more negative consequences and stronger social and coping motives for drinking, also had greater gambling involvement, impaired control, negative consequences, and stronger motives for gambling. These results are broadly consistent with a general problem syndrome model of underlying vulnerabilities. Results showed that there was also a small relationship between the alcohol and the eating variables (R = 0.40), reflecting a negative relationship between problematic alcohol involvement and a dimension of eating attitudes and behaviors. These results are not fully consistent with a problem syndrome model and instead suggest eating and alcohol serve different purposes among students, and that there is not a unitary relationship between eating attitudes and behaviors and alcohol involvement and motives. Finally, we observed no link between eating and gambling variables, which suggests these behaviors, are distinct. Men reported more alcohol and gambling-related involvement and concerns and women more eating-related concerns but principal component analysis suggested that, despite different levels of involvement, associations among these variables were similar for both genders.

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Problem Drinking, Gambling and Eating Among Undergraduate University Students. What are the Links?

Hodgins

Ranson

Montpetit

2015

Int J Ment Health Addiction

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“…Some authors have proposed that the association between BN and substance use extends in a continuum in non‐clinical and clinical populations in such a way that distorted attitudes and behaviours towards eating and food could increase the susceptibility to alcohol and drug use (Anderson, et al ., ; Kaltiala‐Heino, et al ., ; Krahn, et al ., ; Suzuki, et al ., ). Our results are not in agreement with this point of view, because we have found no differences in controls with and without AHU for any of the variables, differences that have been associated in most cases with the existence of the diagnosis of BN.…”

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“…In this way, alcohol consumption could be favoured in patients with BN by specific neurobiological factors and could enable them to neutralize the changes associated with abnormal and persistent activation of the HPA axis, which could lead to the emergence of depressive symptoms (Badrick, et al, 2008). Some authors have proposed that the association between BN and substance use extends in a continuum in non-clinical and clinical populations in such a way that distorted attitudes and behaviours towards eating and food could increase the susceptibility to alcohol and drug use (Anderson, et al, 2006;Kaltiala-Heino, et al, 2003;Krahn, et al, 1992;Suzuki, et al, 1995). Our results are not in agreement with this point of view, because we have found no differences in controls with and without AHU for any of the variables, differences that have been associated in most cases with the existence of the diagnosis of BN.…”

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Neurobiological and Clinical Variables Associated with Alcohol Abuse in Bulimia Nervosa

Vaz-Leal

Ramos-Fuentes

Rodríguez-Santos

et al. 2015

Euro Eating Disorders Rev

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The study was aimed at analysing the reciprocal relationships of several clinical and neurobiological items in order to predict alcohol misuse in patients with bulimia nervosa (BN). Seventy BN patients and 70 healthy controls were assessed for depression, impulsivity, borderline personality traits and self-defeating behaviours using specific scales; serum cortisol and 24-hour urinary excretion of serotonin and 5-hydroxiindolacetic acid were also assessed. The study confirmed the implications of these clinical factors for alcohol misuse in BN patients, but the results suggested that depressive symptoms and hypercortisolism could lie behind these relationships.

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“…a: diferente do NE, CO, SE e S; b: diferente do N, CO, SE e S; c: diferente do NE e N; d: diferente do NE e N; e: diferente do NE e N; f: diferente do SE; g: diferente do NE; h: diferente do CO, SE e S; i: diferente do CO, SE e S; j: diferente do NE e N; k: diferente do NE e N; l: diferente do NE e N; m: diferente do CO; n: diferente do N. Uma possível consideração para os maiores valores encontrados no presente trabalho pode ser devida à versão do EAT utilizada, que foi a de Bighetti et al 24 , e não a versão de Nunes et al 23 que foi a utilizada nos demais trabalhos nacionais; esta última versão, no entanto, mostrou baixos coeficientes de validade 26 . Em seu trabalho com adolescentes, Bighetti et al 24 35 .…”

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Comportamento de risco para transtorno alimentar em universitárias brasileiras

Alvarenga¹,

Scagliusi²,

Philippi³

2011

Rev. psiquiatr. clín.

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Comportamento de risco para transtorno alimentar em universitárias brasileiras Resumo Contexto: Comportamentos de risco para transtornos alimentares envolvem atitudes e práticas inadequadas para com o alimento e o peso e podem ser avaliados com base em instrumentos validados. Objetivos: Avaliar comportamento de risco para transtornos alimentares em universitárias brasileiras das cinco regiões do país. Métodos: 2.483 universitárias responderam ao Teste de Atitudes Alimentares (EAT-26) nas cinco regiões. A pontuação no teste foi comparada entre as regiões por meio do teste qui-quadrado. Possíveis associações ou correlações com curso de graduação, idade, estado nutricional, renda individual e escolaridade do chefe da família foram avaliadas pelos coeficientes de Pearson e Spearman. Uma análise de covariância comparou o escore do EAT entre as regiões. Resultados: A frequência de comportamento de risco para transtornos alimentares variou de 23,7% a 30,1% nas cinco regiões e não houve diferença na pontuação média do EAT e na proporção de escores positivos para comportamento de risco entre as regiões. Não houve forte correlação do escore do EAT com nenhuma das variáveis. Conclusão: Universitárias brasileiras apresentam alta frequência de comportamentos de risco para TA em todas as regiões do país. Medidas de prevenção devem ser planejadas para a população jovem feminina do Brasil.Alvarenga MS, et al. / Rev Psiq Clín. 2011;38(1):3-7 Palavras-chave: Transtornos alimentares, EAT-26, fatores de risco, atitudes alimentares, universitárias. AbstractBackground: Risk behavior for eating disorders enrolled inadequate practices and attitudes with food and weight control and could be evaluated with valid instruments. Objectives: To evaluate risk behaviors for eating disorders among Brazilian female university students from different regions. Methods: 2.483 college students filled out the Eating Attitudes Test (EAT-26) at five regions in Brazil. The test score was compared among regions by chi-square test and possible associations or correlations with major, age, nutritional status, individual income and parental education evaluated by Pearson and Spearman coefficients. A covariance analysis compared the EAT scores among regions. Results: The frequency of positive eating disorder behavior ranges from 23.7% to 30.1% among five regions. There was no difference in EAT scores among regions, and there was not strong correlation between EAT scores and the variables studied. Discussion: Brazilian female university students have high frequency of risk behaviors for eating disorders in all regions of the country. Prevention strategies must be developed for the young female population of Brazil.

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The relationship between disordered eating behavior and drinking motives in college-age women

Cited by 32 publications

References 19 publications

Problem Drinking, Gambling and Eating Among Undergraduate University Students. What are the Links?

Problem Drinking, Gambling and Eating Among Undergraduate University Students. What are the Links?

Neurobiological and Clinical Variables Associated with Alcohol Abuse in Bulimia Nervosa

Comportamento de risco para transtorno alimentar em universitárias brasileiras

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