Associations between childhood maltreatment latent classes and eating disorder symptoms in a nationally representative sample of young adults in the United States
Hazzard V, Bauer K, Mukherjee B, Miller A, Sonneville K. Associations between childhood maltreatment latent classes and eating disorder symptoms in a nationally representative sample of young adults in the United States. Child Abuse & Neglect 2019, 98: 104171. PMID: 31546098, PMCID: PMC6885127, DOI: 10.1016/j.chiabu.2019.104171.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsEating disorder symptomsFasting/skipping mealsDisorder symptomsEating-related concernsChildhood maltreatmentPhysical abusePhysical neglectAssociated with eating disorder symptomsLatent classesSexual abuseAssociated with eating disordersChildhood physical neglectYoung adultsNationally representative sampleMulti-type maltreatmentMaltreatment profilesLogistic regression modelsEating disordersLatent class analysisCompensatory behaviorsU.S. young adultsHigh riskStudy of AdolescentLongitudinal Study of AdolescentRepresentative sample