Eating Disorders and Intrasexual Competition: Testing an Evolutionary Hypothesis among Young Women

Table 3

Proportion of women engaging in any occurrence of key eating and compensatory behaviors.

Key behavior	Any behavior (%)
	Present study	Mond et al. [27]	Luce et al. [28]
	(18–22 age band)
	𝑛=206	𝑛=5255	𝑛=723
Objective binge episodes	38.3	20.7	21.3
Self induced vomiting	2.9	4.8	8.8
Laxative misuse	2.4	1.3	8.3
Diuretic misuse	1.0	0.3	6.6
Excessive exercise	42.7	34.5	30.8