title: Prospective Relations between Overeating, Loss of Control Eating, Binge Eating, and Depressive Symptoms in a School-Based Sample of Adolescents.
abstract: A sample of 353 community adolescents (grades 9 to 12, 57.6 % female) participated in a 2-wave longitudinal study of eating behaviors (overeating, loss of control eating [LOC], and binge eating) and depression. The study addresses 4 hypotheses. (1) The prospective relations between eating behaviors and depressive symptoms will be reciprocal, with each predicting the other over time. (2) These relations will be stronger for girls than for boys. (3) These relations will be stronger for adolescents with high (not low) body mass index (BMI). (4) LOC will show incremental predictive utility in relation to depressive symptoms over and above overeating. Evidence supported reciprocal relations between binge eating and depressive symptoms and between overeating and depressive symptoms, but not between LOC and depressive symptoms. Sex and BMI did not substantially moderate these relations. Taken separately, overeating but not LOC predicted depressive symptoms. Taken together, neither predictor was significant controlling for the other. Results raise questions about the importance of LOC alone in predicting depressive symptoms in adolescence.
authors.affiliation: Division of Psychology, Department of Psychiatry, Boston Children's Hospital, 300 Longwood Ave, Boston, MA, 02115, USA. Keneisha.sinclair-mcbride@childrens.harvard.edu.|Psychology and Human Development, Vanderbilt University, 0552 GPC, 230 Appleton Place, Nashville, TN, 37203-5721, USA. Keneisha.sinclair-mcbride@childrens.harvard.edu.
authors.forename: Keneisha
authors.identifier: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2566-4375
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Sinclair-McBride
authors.affiliation: Psychology and Human Development, Vanderbilt University, 0552 GPC, 230 Appleton Place, Nashville, TN, 37203-5721, USA.
authors.forename: David A
authors.initials: DA
authors.lastname: Cole
mesh_terms: D002032:Bulimia / Q000523:psychology*; D002648:Child; D005247:Feeding Behavior / Q000523:psychology*; D001068:Feeding and Eating Disorders / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008137:Longitudinal Studies; D008297:Male; D012574:Schools; D000068356:Self-Control / Q000523:psychology*
keywords: Adolescents; Binge eating; Depressive symptoms; Loss of control eating; Overeating