Jue Chen, Zhen Wang, Boliang Guo, Jon Arcelus, Haiyin Zhang, Xiuzhen Jia, Yong Xu, Jianyin Qiu, Zeping Xiao, Min Yang

The bi-relationships between psychological stress, negative affect and disordered eating has been well studied in western culture, while tri-relationship among them, i.e. how some of those factors influence these bi-relationships, has rarely been studied. However, there has been little related study in the different Chinese culture. This study was conducted to investigate the bi-relationships and tri-relationship between psychological stress, negative affect, and disordered eating attitudes and behaviors in young Chinese women.