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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Abnorm Psychol. 2020 May;129(4):376–386. doi: 10.1037/abn0000519

Table 2.

Changes in Estimated EDI Drive for Thinness and Bulimia scores in Men and Women across Ages 20 to 50

Women Men


Age 20 Age 30 Age 40 Age 50 Age 20 Age 30 Age 40 Age 50

EDI Subscale M (SE) M (SE) M (SE) M (SE) M (SE) M (SE) M (SE) M (SE)
Fixed Effects Estimate γ (SE)
Drive for Thinness 14.68 (0.21) 13.67 (0.18) 12.66 (0.18) 11.66 (0.22) 9.12 (0.31) 9.37 (0.27) 9.62 (0.27) 9.87 (0.33) Intercept: 14.19 (0.27)***
Age: −0.06 (0.01)***
Gender : 8.06 (0.59)***
Age*Gender : −0.13 (0.11)***
Bulimia 13.34 (0.17) 12.08 (0.13) 10.82 (0.13) 9.56 (0.15) 10.27 (0.25) 9.84 (0.20) 9.40 (0.20) 8.97 (0.24) Intercept: 14.40 (0.22)***
Age: −0.10 (0.01)***
Gender : 4.71 (0.49)***
Age*Gender : −0.08 (0.01)***

Note. Fixed effects estimates are from multilevel models with age in years. Estimated marginal means are probed at ages 20, 30, 40, and 50. EDI=Eating Disorder Inventory.

*

p < .05

**

p < .01

***

p < .001