Alexithymia may explain the relationship between autistic traits and eating disorder psychopathology.

Whilst the overall model predicting LEAS scores was marginally significant ( R 2 = .03, F (2, 296) = 2.66, p = .0483), the relationship between autistic traits and LEAS scores was not (path a: b = .12, p = .296); there was instead a main effect of sex where female participants tended to outperform males ( b = 2.66, p = .0328), though no significant moderation.

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