News Finding: They suggest that hormones primarily improves body dissatisfaction, which in turn reduces levels of perfectionism and symptoms of anxiety, and increases self-esteem.
Paper Finding: Low self-esteem made the largest contribution to the variance, followed by high levels of perfectionism, body dissatisfaction, and symptoms of anxiety (see Table 4 ).
News Context: Professor Arcelus added: "These findings help to clarify the mechanisms through which hormone treatment might be able to improve eating disorder symptoms in this population. They suggest that hormones primarily improves body dissatisfaction, which in turn reduces levels of perfectionism and symptoms of anxiety, and increases self-esteem. In combination, these factors then appear to alleviate eating disorder symptoms.
Paper Context: Overall, this model was significant and explained 25% of the total variance in bulimia (see Table 4 ). Low self-esteem made the largest contribution to the variance, followed by high levels of perfectionism, body dissatisfaction, and symptoms of anxiety (see Table 4 ). The average VIF for this model was 1.38 and the average tolerance was 0.75 indicating that there is no multicollinearity within the model .