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. 2016 Oct-Dec;24(5):424-39.
doi: 10.1080/10640266.2016.1207452. Epub 2016 Jul 27.

Behavioral and psychological aspects of exercise across stages of eating disorder recovery

Anna M Bardone-Cone  1 , M K Higgins  1 , Sara M St George  2 , Ilyssa Rosenzweig  1 , Lauren M Schaefer  3 , Ellen E Fitzsimmons-Craft  4 , Taylor M Henning  1 , Brittany F Preston  5
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Behavioral and psychological aspects of exercise across stages of eating disorder recovery

Anna M Bardone-Cone et al. Eat Disord. 2016 Oct-Dec.

Abstract

This study examined the relationship between behavioral and psychological aspects of exercise and eating disorder recovery. Participants were categorized as having an eating disorder (n = 53), partially recovered (n = 15), fully recovered (n = 20), or non-eating disorder controls (n = 67). Groups did not differ significantly in time spent exercising, but did differ in exercise intensity, guilt-related exercise, obsessive exercise cognitions, and appearance/weight management and stress/mood management motivations for exercise. Results support the importance of measuring psychological aspects of exercise in particular across the course of an eating disorder.

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