Binge Eating, But Not Other Disordered Eating Symptoms, Is a Significant Contributor of Binge Drinking Severity: Findings from a Cross-Sectional Study among French Students

Benjamin Rolland, Mickael Naassila, Céline Duffau, Hakim Houchi, Fabien Gierski, Judith André
Front. Psychol.. 2017-10-30; 8:
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01878

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1. Front Psychol. 2017 Oct 30;8:1878. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01878. eCollection
2017.

Binge Eating, But Not Other Disordered Eating Symptoms, Is a Significant
Contributor of Binge Drinking Severity: Findings from a Cross-Sectional Study
among French Students.

Rolland B(1), Naassila M(1), Duffau C(1), Houchi H(1), Gierski F(2), André J(1).

Author information:
(1)Groupe de Recherche sur l’Alcool & les Pharmacodépendances (GRAP), INSERM ERi
24, Centre Universitaire de Recherche en Santé, Université de Picardie Jules
Verne, Amiens, France.
(2)C2S Laboratory (EA 6291), University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne, Reims,
France.

Many studies have suggested the co-occurrence of eating disorders and alcohol use
disorders but in which extent binge eating (BE) and other disordered eating
symptoms (DES) are associated with the severity of binge drinking (BD) remains
unknown. We conducted a online cross-sectional study among 1,872 French students.
Participants were asked their age, gender, tobacco and cannabis use status. They
completed the Alcohol Use Questionnaire (AUQ), Eating Disorder Examination
Questionnaire (EDE-Q), and UPPS impulsive behavior questionnaire. BD score was
calculated using the AUQ. Three items of the EDE-Q were used to construct a BE
score. The predictors of the BD score were determined using a linear regression
model. Our results showed that the BE score was correlated with the BD score (β0
= 0.051 ± 0.022; p = 0.019), but no other DES was associated with BD, including
purging behaviors. The severity of BD was also correlated with younger age, male
gender, tobacco and cannabis use, and with the ‘positive urgency,’
‘premeditation,’ and ‘sensation seeking’ UPPS subscores (R2 of the model: 25%).
Within DES, BE appeared as an independent determinant of the BD severity. This is
in line with the recent hypothesis that BE is not a subtype of DES, but more a
general vulnerability factor of emotional dysregulation, which could be shared by
different behavioral and addictive disorders.

DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01878
PMCID: PMC5670502
PMID: 29163267

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