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Eating Attitudes

Klump, K.L., McGue, M., & Iacono, W.G. (2002). Genetic Relationship Between Personality and Eating Attitudes and Behaviors. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 111, 380-389. Retrieved October 10, 2003 from Ovid database.

In this study, the researchers originally took 676 16-18-year-old twins (111 twins did not complete part or all of the study and were therefore excluded) and analyzed their scores on the Minnesota Eating Disorders Inventory (M-EDI) and the Multidimensional Personality Questionnaire (MPQ). The Minnesota Twin Family Study (MTFS) added some items of their own to the M-EDI questionnaire to “assess the use of compensatory behaviors.” The researchers were looking f...

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