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Table 3 Follow-up chi-square analyses on the risk factors that significantly contributed to the development of AN based on the DSM/BT and DT classification

From: Do risk factors differentiate DSM-5 and drive for thinness severity groups for anorexia nervosa?

 

DSM-5

  

DT

 

Mild/moderate (1)

Severe (2)

Extreme (3)

χ2 (p value; Cramer’s V)

Post-hoc

Low

High

χ2 (p value; Cramer’s V)

N

%

n

%

n

%

  

n

%

n

%

 

Perfectionism

11

17.2

11

17.2

42

65.6

6.86 (0.032; 0.212)

3 > 2 (.039)

31

47

35

53

0.43 (0.515; 0.042)

Childhood obesity

11

25.6

12

27.9

20

46.5

1.45 (0.480; 0.098)

–

15

40.5

22

59.5

1.70 (0.193; 0.083)

Teasing about shape, weight, or appearance

13

23.2

14

25

29

51.8

0.48 (0.787; 0.056)

–

34

50

34

50

0.01 (0.937; 0.005)

Breast as source of embarrassment

4

15.4

9

34.6

13

50

1.30 (0.521; 0.092)

–

22

39.3

34

60.7

3.59 (0.058; 0.121)