Does age affect eating disorders in women? Tiggemann and Lynch (2001) studied the effect of women’s body image on eating disorders across the life-span. The file labeled “Tiggeman & Lynch simulated.sav” includes a simulated version of some of the variables from this research (the data are also contained in an Excel file and a text file with the same name, but the extension “.xls” or “.dat”). The variables in the file are Age (21 to 78), the extent to which the women habitually monitored their bodies and how it looked (Monitor), the extent to which the women felt shame when their bodies did not look the way they expected (Shame), the extent to which women felt anxiety about their bodies (Anxiety), and the extent to which the women endorsed eating disorder symptoms (Eat_Dis). Is the correlation between age and eating disorders statistically significant? When you regress eating disorders on Age and these other variables (Monitor, Shame, and Anxiety), does age have an effect on eating disorders?

Which of these variables are most important for explaining eating disorders?

Interpret your findings.