A revised dual-pathway model for disordered eating: A longitudinal study

Background To date, relatively few researchers have developed and tested integrative etiological models for the full range of disordered eating behaviours, both clinical and subclinical. In addition, much of the research conducted in this area has been correlational; few studies have investigated disordered eating growth over time. Accordingly, the current research aims to replicate and extend the dual pathway model of bulimic pathology (Stice, 2001), which has helped inform the gold standard of prevention approaches for eating disorders among adult women, to the full range of disordered eating behaviours. This research will also examine a revised model which incorporates temperament: perfectionism, self-efficacy, emotion regulation, which has shown to be predominant in the development and maintenance of eating pathology.