Identification of Psychological Dysfunctions and Eating Disorders in Obese Women Seeking Weight Loss: Cross-Sectional Study

Table 3

Multivariate analysis of the associations between eating behaviours and psychological profile.

	BDI-II	STAI-Y State	STAI-Y Trait	RAS
Age	—	—	—	0.150
BITE
Symptom	0.222	—	—	0.190
Severity	—	0.188	0.199	—
EDI-2
Ineffectiveness	0.653	0.636	0.651	0.495
Interpersonal distrust	—	−0.149	—	—
𝐑^𝟐 of model	0.546	0.400	0.478	0.323

Statistical analysis by forward stepwise linear regression. BITE: Bulimic Investigatory Test of Edinburgh; EDI-2: Eating Disorder Inventory-2; BDI-II: Beck Depression Inventory II; STAI-Y: Spielberger State-Trait Anxiety Inventory, form Y; RAS: Rathus Assertiveness Schedule.
Results are expressed as standardized slope. —: not retained. The other items of the EDI-2 (desire for thinness, bulimia, body dissatisfaction; perfectionism, interoceptive awareness, maturity fears, asceticism, impulse regulation, and social insecurity) were not retained.