Prospective associations between childhood social communication processes and adolescent eating disorder symptoms in an epidemiological sample.

ABSTRACT: Deficits in social cognition and communication, the processes associated with human social behavior and interaction, have been described in individuals with eating disorder psychopathology. The current study examined whether social communication characteristics present in middle childhood (ages 8-14) were associated with eating disorder behaviors, cognitions, and diagnoses across adolescence (ages 14-18) in a large, population-based sample. Participants (N = 4864) were children enrolled in the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC), a population-based, prospective study of women and their children. Regression methods tested prospective associations between social functioning using a facial emotion recognition task and parentally reported social communication symptoms (or

SUBMITTER: Schaumberg K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8050127 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature