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Sensitivity to punishment and low maternal care account for the link between bulimic and social anxiety symptomology.

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Kimbrel, NA; Cobb, AR; Mitchell, JT; Hundt, NE; Nelson-Gray, RO
Published in: Eat Behav
April 2008

OBJECTIVE: The current study examined the joint effect of personality and parenting factors on the prediction of bulimia nervosa (BN) and social anxiety disorder (SAD) symptomology in a sample of female college students. The study also tested whether personality and parenting factors might account for the association between BN and SAD symptoms. METHOD: One-hundred twenty-eight participants completed self-report measures assessing maternal care (MC), maternal overprotection, sensitivity to punishment (SP), sensitivity to reward (SR), and BN and SAD symptomology. RESULTS: SP, SR, and MC each uniquely predicted BN symptoms, whereas only SP and MC predicted SAD symptoms. High SP interacted with low MC to predict BN and SAD symptoms over the main effects. In addition, SP, MC, and the interaction term SP x MC mediated the association between SAD and BN symptoms. CONCLUSION: High SP and low MC appear to account for the link between BN and SAD symptomology, whereas high SR appears to distinguish the disorders.

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Eat Behav

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ISSN

1471-0153

Publication Date

April 2008

Volume

9

Issue

2

Start / End Page

210 / 217

Location

United States

Related Subject Headings

  • Risk Factors
  • Punishment
  • Psychometrics
  • Phobic Disorders
  • Personality Inventory
  • Personality Development
  • Parenting
  • Mother-Child Relations
  • Humans
  • Female
 

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Kimbrel, N. A., Cobb, A. R., Mitchell, J. T., Hundt, N. E., & Nelson-Gray, R. O. (2008). Sensitivity to punishment and low maternal care account for the link between bulimic and social anxiety symptomology. Eat Behav, 9(2), 210–217. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eatbeh.2007.09.005
Kimbrel, Nathan A., Amanda R. Cobb, John T. Mitchell, Natalie E. Hundt, and Rosemery O. Nelson-Gray. “Sensitivity to punishment and low maternal care account for the link between bulimic and social anxiety symptomology.Eat Behav 9, no. 2 (April 2008): 210–17. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eatbeh.2007.09.005.
Kimbrel NA, Cobb AR, Mitchell JT, Hundt NE, Nelson-Gray RO. Sensitivity to punishment and low maternal care account for the link between bulimic and social anxiety symptomology. Eat Behav. 2008 Apr;9(2):210–7.
Kimbrel, Nathan A., et al. “Sensitivity to punishment and low maternal care account for the link between bulimic and social anxiety symptomology.Eat Behav, vol. 9, no. 2, Apr. 2008, pp. 210–17. Pubmed, doi:10.1016/j.eatbeh.2007.09.005.
Kimbrel NA, Cobb AR, Mitchell JT, Hundt NE, Nelson-Gray RO. Sensitivity to punishment and low maternal care account for the link between bulimic and social anxiety symptomology. Eat Behav. 2008 Apr;9(2):210–217.
Journal cover image

Published In

Eat Behav

DOI

ISSN

1471-0153

Publication Date

April 2008

Volume

9

Issue

2

Start / End Page

210 / 217

Location

United States

Related Subject Headings

  • Risk Factors
  • Punishment
  • Psychometrics
  • Phobic Disorders
  • Personality Inventory
  • Personality Development
  • Parenting
  • Mother-Child Relations
  • Humans
  • Female