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The lower boundary of the box represents the 25 th percentile, whilst the upper boundary
represents the 75 th percentile. The whiskers, the lines above and below the box indicate
the largest and smallest scores.
Avoidance and Fusion Questionnaire for Youth
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Eating Disorder risk categories
Figure 3 - Boxplot of inflexibility in emotional processing for the eating disorder risk
groups
Figure 3 shows that those in the high EDR group appear to have higher scores regarding
inflexibility, lending initial support to the primary hypothesis that inflexibility will be
associated with eating disorder risk. Inflexible emotional processing is hypothesised to be
higher in those with a higher EDR and therefore flexible emotional processing will be
found more in those in the low EDR group. Relevant descriptive statistics are displayed
in table 8 below.
Table 8 - Descriptive statistics for the Inflexibility clinical scale for the EDR groups
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