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Table 3 Correlations between personality characteristics and eating behaviors

From: Differences between adolescents exhibiting moderate binging and non-binging eating behaviors

	SA	TA	P	N	E	LIE	I	V	EM
Moderate binging (FD = 28)
Drive for thinness	.23	.29	−.31	−.20	.02	.02	.06	−.33	.08
Bulimia	.32	.09	.13	.06	.28	−.18	.09	.04	−.14
Body dissatisfaction	.28	.22	−.31	−.08	−.03	.13	−.01	−.29	.40*
Ineffectiveness	.48**	.65**	−.36	−.35	.18	.15	−.31	−.41*	.34
Perfectionism	.31	.33	−.16	.03	.32	.09	.07	−.07	.06
Interpersonal distrust	.42*	.56**	−.09	−.37	.30	−.29	−.16	−.53**	−.08
Interoceptive awareness	.50**	.62**	−.17	−.21	.37	.36	.02	−.28	.27
Maturity fears	.12	.25	−.09	−.35	.03	.05	−.02	−.24	.07
Asceticism	.18	.35	−.38*	−.34	.08	.31	−.20	−.41*	.19
Impulse regulation	.39*	.46*	−.12	−.16	.52**	.11	−.20	−.07	.14
Social insecurity	.48*	.51**	−.08	−.33	.05	.01	−.18	−.26	.09
Non-binging (FD = 53)
Drive for thinness	−.18	−.03	−.02	.02	.18	.03	.15	.24	.16
Bulimia	.14	.03	.24	−.24	.21	−.06	.06	.14	−.22
Body dissatisfaction	.17	.13	.10	−.24	.29*	−.15	.01	−.01	.04
Ineffectiveness	.39**	.45**	−.10	−.45**	.32*	.20	−.15	−.42**	.16
Perfectionism	−.13	−.23	−.14	.10	.07	.25	−.15	.05	.10
Interpersonal distrust	.36**	.35*	.16	−.50**	.44**	.07	−.10	−.33*	−.05
Interoceptive awareness	.50**	.63**	.17	−.30*	.35*	−.10	.15	.02	.15
Maturity fears	.18	.16	.00	.04	.19	−.01	.03	−.18	.25
Asceticism	.15	.13	.03	−.29*	.18	.22	−.13	.07	−.11
Impulse regulation	.41**	.49**	.36**	−.23	.52**	−.08	.39**	.00	−.10
Social insecurity	.27*	.348*	.10	−.323*	.507**	−.16	.14	−.06	.05

SA State-Anxiety, TA Trait-Anxiety, P psychoticism, N neuroticism, E extraversion, I impulsivity, V venturesomeness, EM empathy
*** p < .001;** p < .01;* p < .05

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