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Bulimia and interpersonal relationships: an extension of a longitudinal study
M H Thelen1, D M Kanakis, J Farmer
1Department of Psychology, University of Missouri, Columbia 65211.
Addictive Behaviors
|March 1, 1993
Abstract:
We examined changes in bulimia in female college students and changes in the relationship between bulimia and satisfaction with interpersonal relationships. We extended data collected from a 19-month time period in a previous study to a 31-month time period. Bulimics, subclinical bulimics, and normals showed a leveling off of the previous decline in bulimic symptoms assessed at the 19-month testing. There were strong negative correlations between the Bulimia Test and ratings of satisfaction with male interpersonal relationships, but the correlations were not significant for satisfaction with female relationships.