Subtyping undergraduate women along dietary restraint and negative affect.

Cluster-analytic studies of clinical populations of eating disordered women who binge eat have yielded two subtypes--pure dietary restraint and mixed dietary restraint-negative affect--consistent with etiologic and maintenance models of binge eating. This study aimed to replicate this subtyping scheme in university women. The scores of 623 undergrad females on the TFEQ-restraint and BDI scales were submitted to a cluster analysis and revealed three subtypes, "healthy" (47.