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Family climates: Family factors specific to disturbed eating and bulimia nervosa

Abstract

More than a decade of research has characterized the families of individuals with bulimia and bulimia anorexia (Anorexia Nervosa, Binge/Purging Type) as less expressive, less cohesive, and experiencing more conflicts than normal control families. This two-part study investigated variables believed more directly related to disturbed eating and bulimia as contributing to a "family climate for eating disorders." In Study 1. a nonclinical sample of …

Authors

Laliberté M; Boland FJ; Leichner P

Journal

Journal of Clinical Psychology, Vol. 55, No. 9, pp. 1021–1040

Publisher

Wiley

Publication Date

September 1999

DOI

10.1002/(sici)1097-4679(199909)55:9<1021::aid-jclp1>3.0.co;2-g

ISSN

0021-9762