Childhood maltreatment, shame, psychological distress, and binge eating: testing a serial mediational model

Table 2 Means, standard deviations, and pearson correlations between study variables (N = 530)

	M (SD)	CPA	CEA	CSA	CPN	CEN	Internal shame	External shame	Body shame	Psychological distress	Binge eating
CPA	0.39 (0.49)	–
CEA	0.58 (0.49)	0.52	–
CSA	0.33 (0.47)	0.24	0.17	–
CPN	0.18 (0.39)	0.33	0.26	0.20	–
CEN	0.65 (0.48)	0.33	0.39	0.22	0.20	–
Internal shame	71.26 (18.49)	0.13	0.28	0.12	0.09*	0.30	–
External shame	21.99 (7.18)	0.12	0.25	0.12	0.15	0.31	0.82	–
Body shame	41 (11.01)	0.15	0.20	0.16	0.12	0.18	0.59	0.56	–
Psychological distress	64.97 (25.78)	0.21	0.29	0.12	0.19	0.28	0.68	0.58	0.42	–
Binge eating	31.18	0.12	0.18	0.18	0.18	0.13	0.43	0.35	0.47	0.44	–
Overvaluation of shape and weight		0.11*	0.20	0.14	0.03^	0.16	0.51	0.42	0.59	0.35	0.46

All correlations significant at the 0.01 level (2-tailed) except those marked * which indicates significance at the 0.05 level, and that marked ^ which indicates p > 0.05
CPA childhood physical abuse, CEA childhood emotional abuse, CSA childhood sexual abuse, CPN childhood physical neglect, CEN childhood emotional neglect

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