The relationship between drive to thinness, conscientiousness and bulimic traits during adolescence: a comparison between younger and older cases in 608 healthy volunteers

Table 2 Pearson's correlation between significant variables in ‘early’ vs. ‘late’ adolescents

		Age	Eating disorders inventory - drive to thinness	Eating disorders Inventory - bulimia	BigFive conscientiousness
Early adolescence	Age	1	−.02	−.10	.13
	Eating disorders inventory drive to thinness	−.02	1	.31**	−.04
	Eating disorders inventory bulimia	−.10		1	−.12
	BigFive conscientiousness	.13			1
Late adolescence	Age	1		−.10	.206*
Late adolescence	Eating disorders inventory drive to thinness	−.042	1	.51**	−.085

Not flagged = not significant; *p = <.05 or significant; **p = <.001 or highly significant; correlation measures refer to those variables already showing a statistically significant difference between early vs. late adolescent groups (as reported in Table 1); additional correlation measures failed to show significant values.

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