ught to be related to eating disorders, and BID.
Findings showed no evidence that childhood sexual or physical abuse was associated with the development of body image disturbance. However, findings did suggest that abused subjects may set higher personal expectations for their achievement than nonabused subjects and have greater difficulty identifying emotions and sensations of hunger or satiety.
Of direct relevant to the research proposed here, Everill and Waller (1995) contend that the claim that there is no specific link between a reported history of sexual abuse and eating disorders is a conclusion that is based on an inappropriate level of analysis of the phenomena of sexual abuse and diagnosable eating disorders. According to the authors, when these two relatively blunt constructs are considered in finer detail, there appears to be a complex link between the nature of sexual abuse and specific bulimic symptomatology.
In particular, Everill and Waller (1995) state that there are several me
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