Overcoming limitations of self-report: an assessment of fear of weight gain in anorexia nervosa and healthy controls using implicit association tests

Table 2 Associations of eating disorder-specific and general psychopathology with implicit drive for thinness in AN

D-score	BMI	EDE Restraint	EDE Eating concern	EDE Weight concern	EDE Shape concern	EDI-2 Drive for thinness	EDI-2 Bulimia	EDI-2 Body dissatisfaction	BDI-II Total score	STAI Trait anxiety
pIAT	.178 (p = .305)	.299 (p = .081)	*.407 (p = .015)**	.231 (p = .181)	*.370 (p = .031)**	.244 (p = .158)	−.035 (p = .844)	.241 (p = .163)	.146 (p = .401)	.096 (p = .588)
qIAT	−.136 (p = .436)	*.379 (p = .025)**	*.371 (p = .028)**	*.371 (p = .028)**	*.359 (p = .037)**	.437 (p = .009)**	−.129 (p = .459)	.543 (p = .001)**	.096 (p = .583)	.080 (p = .654)

AN Anorexia nervosa, pIAT Picture-based implicit association test, qIAT Questionnaire-based implicit association test, BMI Body mass index, EDE Eating Disorder Examination, EDI-2 Eating Disorder Inventory-2, BDI-II Beck Depression Inventory-2, STAI State-Trait Anxiety Inventory. * p < .05; ** p < .01

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