title: The role of interpersonal personality traits and reassurance seeking in eating disorder symptoms and depressive symptoms among women with bulimia nervosa.
abstract: The role of interpersonal factors has been proposed in various models of eating disorder (ED) psychopathology and treatment. We examined the independent and interactive contributions of two interpersonal-focused personality traits (i.e., social avoidance and insecure attachment) and reassurance seeking in relation to global ED psychopathology and depressive symptoms among women with bulimia nervosa (BN).
  
  
  
  Participants were 204 adult women with full or subclinical BN who completed a battery of self-report questionnaires. Hierarchical multiple OLS regressions including main effects and interaction terms were used to analyze the data.
  
  
  
  Main effects were found for social avoidance and insecure attachment in association with global ED psychopathology and depressive symptoms. In addition, two-way interactions between social avoidance and reassurance seeking were observed for both global ED psychopathology and depressive symptoms. In general, reassurance seeking strengthened the association between social avoidance and global ED psychopathology and depressive symptoms.
  
  
  
  These results demonstrate the importance of reassurance seeking in psychopathology among women with BN who display personality features characterized by social avoidance.
authors.affiliation: Department of Clinical Research, Neuropsychiatric Research Institute, Fargo, ND. Electronic address: tmason@nrifargo.com.
authors.forename: Tyler B
authors.initials: TB
authors.lastname: Mason
authors.affiliation: Department of Clinical Research, Neuropsychiatric Research Institute, Fargo, ND; Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science, University of North Dakota School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Fargo, ND.
authors.forename: Jason M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Lavender
authors.affiliation: Department of Clinical Research, Neuropsychiatric Research Institute, Fargo, ND; Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science, University of North Dakota School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Fargo, ND.
authors.forename: Stephen A
authors.initials: SA
authors.lastname: Wonderlich
authors.affiliation: Department of Clinical Research, Neuropsychiatric Research Institute, Fargo, ND; Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science, University of North Dakota School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Fargo, ND.
authors.forename: Ross D
authors.initials: RD
authors.lastname: Crosby
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL.
authors.forename: Thomas E
authors.initials: TE
authors.lastname: Joiner
authors.affiliation: Department of Clinical Research, Neuropsychiatric Research Institute, Fargo, ND; Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science, University of North Dakota School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Fargo, ND.
authors.forename: James E
authors.initials: JE
authors.lastname: Mitchell
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN; The Emily Program, St. Paul, MN.
authors.forename: Scott J
authors.initials: SJ
authors.lastname: Crow
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI.
authors.forename: Marjorie H
authors.initials: MH
authors.lastname: Klein
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, University of California San Francisco School of Medicine, San Francisco, CA.
authors.forename: Daniel
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Le Grange
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC.
authors.forename: Anna M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Bardone-Cone
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN; The Emily Program, St. Paul, MN.
authors.forename: Carol B
authors.initials: CB
authors.lastname: Peterson
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D052018:Bulimia Nervosa / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000523:psychology*; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D003863:Depression / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000523:psychology*; D001068:Feeding and Eating Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D010551:Personality; D011599:Psychopathology; D012919:Social Behavior; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires