Overeating and XXXX in emerging adulthood: 10-year stability and risk factors.

@entity7298 @entity308 @entity5550 @entity6426
UNASSIGNED: Overeating (eating an unusually large amount of food) and @entity6426 ( @entity7298 with loss of control [LOC]) predict adverse health consequences in adolescence. We aimed to characterize the stability of and risk factors for these distinct but interrelated constructs during critical developmental transitions. We used a population-based sample (n = 1,902) that completed surveys at 5-year intervals spanning adolescence and young adulthood. The trajectories of no @entity7298 , @entity7298 , @entity6426 , and @entity5550 ( @entity5550 ; recurrent @entity6426 with associated distress) were characterized using cross-tabulations. Body mass index, @entity308 , self-esteem, and body satisfaction were examined as risk factors for no @entity7298 , @entity7298 , and @entity6426 (including @entity5550 ) 5-years later using multinomial logistic regression. We found that all @entity7298 categories tended to remit to no @entity7298 at 5-year follow-up. Although @entity7298 had the lowest remittance rates at each time-point, @entity6426 and @entity5550 showed higher rates of persistence or worsening of symptoms during the transition from late adolescence/early young adulthood to early/middle young adulthood. Overeating and @entity6426 had similar risk factors, although for females, @entity308 , body satisfaction, and self-esteem in late adolescence/early young adulthood differentially predicted @entity6426 in early/middle young adulthood (ps < .05). While @entity7298 with or without LOC tends to remit over time, problematic eating persists for a subset of individuals. Greater psychosocial problems in late adolescence/early young adulthood predicted greater odds of @entity6426 relative to @entity7298 in early/middle young adulthood among females, indicating that poorer psychosocial functioning in this developmental stage portends more severe eating-related psychopathology later in life. (PsycINFO Database Record
