Two of a kind?
- (1) Background: Obesity (OB) is a frequent co-morbidity in Binge Eating Disorder (BED), suggesting that both conditions share phenotypical features along a spectrum of eating-related behaviors. However, the evidence is inconsistent. This study aimed to comprehensively compare OB-BED patients against OB individuals without BED and healthy, normal-weight controls in general psychopathological features, eating-related phenotypes, and early life experiences. (2) Methods: OB-BED patients (\(\it n\) = 37), OB individuals (\(\it n\) = 50), and controls (\(\it n\) = 44) completed a battery of standardized questionnaires. Responses were analyzed using univariate comparisons and dimensionality reduction techniques (linear discriminant analysis, LDA). (3) Results: OB-BED patients showed the highest scores across assessments (e.g., depression, emotional and stress eating, food cravings, food addiction). OB-BED patients did not differ from OB individuals in terms of childhood traumatization or attachment styles. The LDA revealed a two-dimensional solution that distinguished controls from OB and OB-BED in terms of increasing problematic eating behaviors and attitudes, depression, and childhood adversities, as well as OB-BED from OB groups in terms of emotional eating tendencies and self-regulation impairments. (4) Conclusions: Findings support the idea of a shared spectrum of eating-related disorders but also highlight important distinctions relevant to identifying and treating BED in obese patients.
Author: | Laura Marie SommerGND, Georg HalbeisenORCiDGND, Yesim ErimORCiDGND, Georgios PaslakisORCiDGND |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:hbz:294-86223 |
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.3390/nu13113813 |
Parent Title (English): | Nutrients |
Subtitle (English): | Mapping the psychopathological space between obesity with and without binge eating disorder |
Publisher: | MDPI |
Place of publication: | Basel |
Document Type: | Article |
Language: | English |
Date of Publication (online): | 2022/02/21 |
Date of first Publication: | 2021/10/26 |
Publishing Institution: | Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Universitätsbibliothek |
Tag: | binge eating disorder; childhood trauma questionnaire; emotional eating; food addiction; impulsivity; obesity; psychotherapy |
Volume: | 13 |
Issue: | 11, Article 3813 |
First Page: | 3813-1 |
Last Page: | 3813-17 |
Institutes/Facilities: | LWL-Universitätsklinikum Bochum, Klinik für Psychosomatische Medizin und Psychotherapie |
Dewey Decimal Classification: | Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften / Medizin, Gesundheit |
open_access (DINI-Set): | open_access |
Licence (English): | Creative Commons - CC BY 4.0 - Attribution 4.0 International |