Table 2.
Group Differences in Eating Disorder Pathology, Eating Expectancies and Hedonic Hunger
| No BP (n = 57) | Recent BP (n = 29) | Group differences | |||||
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| M | SD | M | SD | Mann-Whitney U | p | r | |
| Eating alleviates boredom | 19.68 | 4.96 | 22.04 | 5.41 | 503.50 | .006 | .30 |
| M | SD | M | SD | t | p | Cohens d | |
| Eating reduces negative affect | 82.73 | 20.34 | 94.1 | 18.04 | −2.54 | .013 | .59 |
| Eating is pleasurable | 30.42 | 8.82 | 30.72 | 7.26 | −0.16 | .874 | .04 |
| Eating enhances cognitive competenciesa | 7.18 | 3.75 | 8.55 | 3.84 | −1.41 | .161 | .32 |
| Hedonic hunger | 3.75 | 0.72 | 4.03 | 0.71 | −1.68 | .096 | .39 |
BP = binge planning. Eating expectancies were measured by the Eating Expectancies Inventory. Hedonic hunger was measured by the Power of Food Scale. No binge planning group was set as the reference category for t-tests.
a
Unadjusted means and standard deviations are presented, but log transformed variable was used in analyses.