Table 4.
Comparison between women with an eating disorder and without an eating disorder
| Women with ED | Women with ED vs. without ED | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HEW N = 54 |
BIW N = 22 |
Lesbian N = 5 | F | p | HEW t (p) |
BIW t (p) |
Lesbian t (p) |
|
| Age, years | 27.22 (7.22) | 25.41 (4.58) | 24.80 (6.57) | 0.787 | 0.459 | 0.526 (0.469) | 0.168 (0.682) | 0.003 (0.954) |
| BMI, kg/m2 | 23.08 (5.66) | 23.95 (4.49) | 23.14 (1.99) | 0.219 | 0.804 | 0.442 (0.507) | 0.137 (0.712) | 0.000 (0.985) |
| BMI min, kg/m2 | 19.30 (4.42) | 18.92 (3.87) | 22.04 (2.40) | 1.146 | 0.323 | 0.174 (0.677) | 3.856 (0.052) | 0.788 (0.381) |
| BMI max, kg/m2 | 25.93 (5.61) | 27.59 (4.75) | 34.06 (13.13) | 4.377 | 0.016 | 1.531 (0.217) | 0.136 (0.713) |
8.162 (0.007) ED > N-ED |
| RSES | 11.29 (4.43) | 9.50 (2.11) | 9.40 (6.06) | 1.808 | 0.171 |
65.025 (< 0.001) N-ED > ED |
26.492 (0.000) N-ED > ED |
11.681 (0.002) N-ED > ED |
| PACS | 17.61 (3.58) | 17.27 (5.81) | 19.80 (1.64) | 0.733 | 0.484 |
30.322 (0.000) ED > N-ED |
10.926 (0.001) ED > N-ED |
34.314 (< 0.001) ED > N-ED |
| PHQ-9 | 13.85 (4.27) | 14.14 (4.00) | 12.00 (6.00) | 0.507 | 0.604 |
76.583 (< 0.001) ED > N-ED |
10.383 (0.002) ED > N-ED |
1.747 (0.195) |
| EAT26-TOTAL | 35.06 (14.20) | 33.27 (11.45) | 35.40 (18.92) | 0.171 | 0.843 |
801.712 (< 0.001) ED > N-ED |
247.918 (0.000) ED > N-ED |
65.626 (< 0.001) ED > N-ED |
| FRS PD | − 0.04 (1.90) | 0.82 (1.56) | 0.80 (2.05) | 1.918 | 0.154 |
4.336 (0.038) N-ED > ED |
16.801 (0.000) ED > N-ED |
5.908 (0.021) ED > N-ED |
| FRS BWD | 4.22 (2.67) | 4.86 (2.23) | 4.80 (2.05) | 1.724 | 0.129 |
15.754 (< 0.001) ED > N-ED |
10.000 (0.002) ED > N-ED |
13.258 (0.001) ED > N-ED |
| Attractive female body | 15.81 (2.038) | 16.75 (2.29) | 15.33 (1.15) | 1.354 | 0.266 |
− 3.310 (0.001) N-ED > ED |
− 2.371 (0.0320) N-ED > ED |
− 2.176 (0.037) N-ED > ED |
| Healthy female body | 17.58 (3.42) | 17.25 (2.72) | 16.00 (0.98) | 0.373 | 0.690 | − 0.585 (0.559) | − 1.809 (0.087) | − 1.990 (0.055) |
| Attractive male body | 20.33 (2.54) | 21.25 (2.05) | 18.00 (0.05) | 2.550 | 0.087 |
− 2.141 (0.033) N-ED > ED |
− 0.909 (0.366) |
− 6.682 (< 0.001) N-ED > ED |
| Healthy male body | 20.84 (3.15) | 21.25 (2.05) | 20.67 (2.31) | 0.133 | 0.876 | − 0.217 (0.879) | 0.739 (0.462) | 0.213 (0.832) |
Descriptives and psychological variables for female participants with eating disorders per sexual orientation and with versus without eating disorders. For mean and SD of women without an eating disorder looked at Table 2. For attractiveness and health, table reports the BMI of the human model selected in the FRS
HEW heterosexual women, BIW bisexual women, HEM heterosexual men, BIM bisexual men, BMI body mass index, RSES Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale, PACS Physical Appearance Comparison Scale, PHQ-9 Patient Health Questionnaire-9, EAT26 Eating Attitudes Test, FRS Figure Rating Scale, PD perceptual distortion, BWD body weight dissatisfaction, ED eating disorder, N-ED no-eating disorder