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Eating Behaviors 17 (2015) 10–13 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Eating Behaviors A novel measure of compulsive food restriction in anorexia nervosa: Validation of the Self-Starvation Scale (SS) Lauren R. Godier ⁎, Rebecca J. Park Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Warneford Hospital, Warneford Lane, Oxford OX3 7JX, United Kingdom a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Article history: The characteristic relentless self-starvation behaviour seen in Anorexia Nervosa (AN) has been described as ev- Received 20 June 2014 idence of compulsivity, with increasing suggestion of transdiagnostic parallels with addictive behaviour. There is Received in revised form 6 October 2014 a paucity of standardised self-report measures of compulsive behaviour in eating disorders (EDs). Measures that Accepted 3 December 2014 index the concept of compulsive self-starvation in AN are needed to explore the suggested parallels with addic- Available online 10 December 2014 tions. With this aim a novel measure of self-starvation was developed (the Self-Starvation Scale, SS). 126 healthy Keywords: participants, and 78 individuals with experience of AN, completed the new measure along with existing mea- Eating disorders sures of eating disorder symptoms, anxiety and depression. Initial validation in the healthy sample indicated Anorexia Nervosa good reliability and construct validity, and incremental validity in predicting eating disorder symptoms. The psy- Ques