Traditional versus developmental measures of weight suppression: Exploring their relationships with bulimic psychopathology

Objective Weight suppression (WS) is related to a wide variety of eating disorder characteristics. However, individuals with eating disorders usually reach their highest premorbid weight while still developing physically. Therefore, a more sensitive index of individual differences in highest premorb...

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Published in:European eating disorders review 2022-07, Vol.30 (4), p.412-425
Main Authors: Lowe, Michael, Singh, Simar, Apple, Danielle E., Mayer, Laurel, Rosenbaum, Michael, Espel‐Huynh, Hallie, Thomas, J. Graham, Neff, Kirstie M., Zhang, Fengqing
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
bulimia nervosa
developmental weight suppression
dieting
Psychopathology
weight loss
weight suppression
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Summary:Objective Weight suppression (WS) is related to a wide variety of eating disorder characteristics. However, individuals with eating disorders usually reach their highest premorbid weight while still developing physically. Therefore, a more sensitive index of individual differences in highest premorbid weight may be one that compares highest premorbid z‐BMI to current z‐BMI (called developmental weight suppression [DWS] here). Method In this exploratory study, we compared the relationships between traditional weight suppression (TWS) and DWS and a variety of measures related to bulimic psychopathology in 91 females (M age, 25.2; 60.5% White), with clinical or sub‐clinical bulimia nervosa. Results TWS and DWS were correlated (r = 0.40, p 
ISSN:1072-4133
1099-0968
DOI:10.1002/erv.2903