The relationship between different levels of cognition and behavioural symptoms in the eating disorders.

Background: Both disorder-specific cognitions and unconditional core beliefs have been associated with eating-disordered behaviours. This study examines whether these beliefs might provide competing or complementary explanations of those behaviours.

Method: The participants were 151 women with eating disorders.

Social anxiety and agoraphobia in the eating disorders: associations with eating attitudes and behaviours.

Background: While eating disorders have a high comorbidity with anxiety disorders, little is presently known about how anxiety links to eating attitudes and behaviours and other related characteristics of eating-disordered individuals. The present study aimed to determine whether social anxiety and agoraphobia in eating-disordered individuals are linked to different eating attitudes and behaviours and levels of ego functioning.

Method: The participants were 70 women who met DSM-IV criteria for an eating disorder.