Table 1.

Descriptive analyses

	Moderate binging		Without binging
	M (SD)	α	M (SD)	α
Anxiety (STAY)
State-Anxiety	57.62 (12.04)*	.89	46.06 (8.41)	.90
Trait-Anxiety	57.44 (11.82)*	.92	44.35 (9.76)	.91
Personality (EPQ and IVE)
Psychoticism	54.48 (14.29)*	.51	49.10 (9.23)	.50
Extraversion	53.55 (8.41)	.72	53.02 (9.08)	.70
Neuroticism	58.89 (9.53)*	.64	49.04 (9.74)	.61
Lie	44.05 (8.10)	.55	53.72 (8.68)*	.62
Impulsivity	65.33 (10.33)*	.59	52.43 (10.69)	.63
Venturesomeness	55.35 (7.58)	.71	51.69 (9.23)	.73
Empathy	54.46 (10.40)	.76	53.37 (10.10)	.78
Eating disorders (EDI-2)
Drive for thinness	59.13 (13.41)*	.89	43.58 (3.10)	.85
Bulimia	63.92 (14.97)*	.63	46.96 (9.03)	.52
Body dissatisfaction	54.85 (11.61)*	.74	41.11 (3.96)	.70
Ineffectiveness	57.25 (16.58)*	.75	44.69 (6.01)	.81
Perfectionism	57.73 (12.58)	.67	54.31 (10.51)	.55
Interpersonal distrust	53.73 (12.35)	.65	49.21 (10.00)	.60
Interoceptive awareness	59.34 (13.94)*	.69	45.72 (7.20)	.70
Maturity fears	60.00 (11.50)*	.55	52.82 (10.72)	.62
Asceticism	55.07 (15.53)*	.52	46.20 (8.71)	.56
Impulse regulation	61.22 (12.85)*	.70	46.56 (7.73)	.71
Social insecurity	57.59 (10.33)*	.55	48.03 (8.69)	.60

* Group with significant higher score in the variables