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Table 2 Associations of eating disorder-specific and general psychopathology with implicit drive for thinness in AN

From: Overcoming limitations of self-report: an assessment of fear of weight gain in anorexia nervosa and healthy controls using implicit association tests

D-score BMI EDE Restraint EDE Eating concern EDE Weight concern EDE Shape concern EDI-2 Drive for thinness EDI-2 Bulimia EDI-2 Body dissatisfaction BDI-II Total score STAI Trait anxiety
pIAT .178 (p = .305) .299 (p = .081) .407* (p = .015) .231 (p = .181) .370* (p = .031) .244 (p = .158) −.035 (p = .844) .241 (p = .163) .146 (p = .401) .096 (p = .588)
qIAT −.136 (p = .436) .379* (p = .025) .371* (p = .028) .371* (p = .028) .359* (p = .037) .437** (p = .009) −.129 (p = .459) .543** (p = .001) .096 (p = .583) .080 (p = .654)
  1. AN Anorexia nervosa, pIAT Picture-based implicit association test, qIAT Questionnaire-based implicit association test, BMI Body mass index, EDE Eating Disorder Examination, EDI-2 Eating Disorder Inventory-2, BDI-II Beck Depression Inventory-2, STAI State-Trait Anxiety Inventory. * p < .05; ** p < .01
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