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Locus of control in women with eating pathology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 July 2009

Michael King
Michael King*
Affiliation:
Institute of Psychiatry, London
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1Address for correspondence: Dr Michael King, Institute of Psychiatry. De Crespigny Park, London SE5 8AF.
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Synopsis

Locus of control scales have been used to measure ‘effectiveness’ or personal control in patients with eating disorders. A locus of control of behaviour scale was used in a community sample of women with a spectrum of eating pathology from bulimia nervosa to chronic dieting as well as in a comparison group of non-dieters. This scale appeared to add nothing over and above general measures of psychopathology as assessed by the Clinical Interview Schedule and the Symptom Rating Test, or more specific measures such as the Eating Attitudes Test.

Type
Research Article
Information
Psychological Medicine , Volume 19 , Issue 1 , February 1989 , pp. 183 - 187
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1989

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