A Latent Profile Analysis to Symptoms of Eating Disorder in College Students and Its Relation to Depression

  • ZHANG Xinyu ,
  • SUN Qi ,
  • ZHOU Guangdong ,
  • Li Bing
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  • 1. Key Research Base of Humanities and Social Sciences of the Ministry of Education, Academy of Psychology and Behavior, Tianjin Normal University, Tianjin 300387;
    2. Faculty of Psychology, Tianjin Normal University, Tianjin 300387;
    3. Tianjin Social Science Laboratory of Students’ Mental Development and Learning, Tianjin 300387

Received date: 2021-03-21

  Online published: 2022-01-20

Abstract

To investigate eating disorder symptoms’ classification characteristics and their relationships with depression and gender, 575 college students were tested using the Eating Disorder Examination Questionnaire 6.0 and PHQ-9. Data analysis was carried out by the latent profile analysis with a predictor variable (depression) and a classification outcome variable (gender). The results revealed that college students with eating disorder symptoms could be classified into three groups, that is body shape concern group (62.4%), body image concern group (28.0%), and eating disorder risk group (9.6%). The higher the depression score, the more likely an individual would be classified as either the body image concern group or the eating disorder risk group. Compared with men, women were more likely to belong to the body image concern group and the eating disorder risk group.

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ZHANG Xinyu , SUN Qi , ZHOU Guangdong , Li Bing . A Latent Profile Analysis to Symptoms of Eating Disorder in College Students and Its Relation to Depression[J]. Studies of Psychology and Behavior, 2022 , 20(1) : 73 -79 . DOI: 10.12139/j.1672-0628.2022.01.011

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