Disordered eating in a Swedish community sample of adolescent girls : Subgroups, stability, and associations with body esteem, deliberate self-harm and other difficulties
Background: The developmental study of subtypes of disordered eating (DE) during adolescence may be relevant to understand the development of eating disorders. The purpose of the present study was to identify subgroups with different profiles of DE in a community sample of adolescent girls aged 13-15 years, and to study the stability of these profiles and subgroups over a one-year interval in orde