UNSPECIFIED. (2005) Fear of negative evaluation and eating attitudes: A replication and extension study. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EATING DISORDERS, 37 (4). pp. 360-363. ISSN 0276-3478

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Abstract

Objective: Preliminary research has found a link between restrictive eating attitudes and a fear of negative evaluation (FNE). However, such work has focused exclusively on these fears in relation to people in general. The current study sought to replicate and extend these findings by exploring links between restriction and FNE in relation to close friends and relatives.

Method: Ninety-one young women completed two versions of the short Fear of Negative Evaluation Scale (FNE). First, they completed the standard scale (in relation to people in general), and then an amended version (in relation to close friends and relatives). Next, they completed the three eating-related subscales of the Eating Disorders Inventory (EDI).

Results: For the whole group, both general and close FNE were significantly and positively correlated with restrictive (drive for thinness and body dissatisfaction), but not with bulimic attitudes. However, only general FNE had significant individual predictive power on restrictive attitudes when these two forms of FNE were entered into a regression analysis.

Discussion: Among nonclinical populations, negative evaluation fears regarding people in general are linked with restrictive but not with bulimic psychopathology. © 2005 by Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Subjects:	B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine R Medicine > RC Internal medicine > RC0321 Neuroscience. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry
Journal or Publication Title:	INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EATING DISORDERS
Publisher:	JOHN WILEY & SONS INC
ISSN:	0276-3478
Official Date:	May 2005
Volume:	37
Number:	4
Number of Pages:	4
Page Range:	pp. 360-363
Identification Number:	10.1002/eat.20103
Publication Status:	Published
URI:	http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/id/eprint/7110

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