WHEN WILL BULIMICS BE DEPRESSED AND WHEN NOT - THE MODERATING ROLE OFATTRIBUTIONAL STYLE

We examined whether attributional style would moderate whether or not bulimic patients exhibited depressive symptoms. As predicted, clinical bulimics with a negative attributional style did not. Negative atrrib utional style bulimilcs fell in the severe range of severity. Addition ally, attributional style moderate severity of depressed symptom just as much in clinical bulimics as in clinical depressives. Implications for future work are discussed, including how the cognitive theories of depression may further advance our understanding of depressed symptom s among bulimics.