title: Shame proneness and eating disorders: a comparison between clinical and non-clinical samples.
abstract: To explore the relationship between shame proneness, eating disorders outcomes and psychological aspects of patients with eating disorders (ED).
  
  
  
  Sixty-six girls applying for inpatient treatment for ED and 110 female undergraduate students were assessed using the Eating Disorder Inventory-3 and the Shame Proneness Scale of the Test of Self-Conscious Affect.
  
  
  
  Shame proneness showed significant correlations with several ED components and psychological scales of EDI-3, with some variations across the subgroups. Shame proneness levels were significantly higher in the clinical group than in controls.
  
  
  
  Shame proneness can be an important component for the development and the maintenance of ED due to a strong correlation not only with ED symptoms but also with psychological aspects of this disease, in both clinical and non-clinical samples.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Catholic University of Milan, Via Nirone 15, 20123, Milan, Italy. cesare.cavalera@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Cesare
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Cavalera
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Catholic University of Milan, Via Nirone 15, 20123, Milan, Italy.
authors.forename: Francesco
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Pagnini
authors.affiliation: Department of Human Sciences for Education "Riccardo Massa", University of Milan-Bicocca, Via Giolli, Corner Via Thomas Mann, 20162, Milan, Italy.
authors.forename: Valentino
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Zurloni
authors.affiliation: Department of Human Sciences for Education "Riccardo Massa", University of Milan-Bicocca, Via Giolli, Corner Via Thomas Mann, 20162, Milan, Italy.
authors.forename: Barbara
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Diana
authors.affiliation: Department of Human Sciences for Education "Riccardo Massa", University of Milan-Bicocca, Via Giolli, Corner Via Thomas Mann, 20162, Milan, Italy.
authors.forename: Olivia
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Realdon
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Catholic University of Milan, Via Nirone 15, 20123, Milan, Italy.|Psychology Research Laboratory, Istituto Auxologico Italiano IRCCS, Ospedale San Giuseppe, Verbania, Italy.
authors.forename: Gianluca
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Castelnuovo
authors.affiliation: Eating Disorders - Psychonutritional Rehabilitation, Villa Margherita Clinic, Via Costacolonna 20, 36057, Arcugnano, Italy.
authors.forename: Patrizia
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Todisco
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Catholic University of Milan, Via Nirone 15, 20123, Milan, Italy.|Psychology Research Laboratory, Istituto Auxologico Italiano IRCCS, Ospedale San Giuseppe, Verbania, Italy.
authors.forename: Enrico
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Molinari
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000339:Affect; D001068:Feeding and Eating Disorders / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D012752:Shame; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: Eating disorders; Shame proneness; Subclinical