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Eating psychopathology and personality in eating disorders

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 October 2011

Secondo Fassino ,
Giovanni Abbate-Daga ,
Federico Amianto ,
Federico Facchini  and
Giovanni Giacomo Rovera
Secondo Fassino*
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Neuroscienze, Sezione Psichiatria, Servizio per i Disturbi del Comportamento Alimentare, Università di Torino, Torino
Giovanni Abbate-Daga
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Neuroscienze, Sezione Psichiatria, Servizio per i Disturbi del Comportamento Alimentare, Università di Torino, Torino
Federico Amianto
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Neuroscienze, Sezione Psichiatria, Servizio per i Disturbi del Comportamento Alimentare, Università di Torino, Torino
Federico Facchini
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Neuroscienze, Sezione Psichiatria, Servizio per i Disturbi del Comportamento Alimentare, Università di Torino, Torino
Giovanni Giacomo Rovera
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Neuroscienze, Sezione Psichiatria, Servizio per i Disturbi del Comportamento Alimentare, Università di Torino, Torino
*
Address for correspondence: Professor S. Fassino, Dipartimento di Neuroscienze, Università di Torino, Sezione Psichiatria, Via Cherasco 11, 10126Torino. Fax: +39-011-673473; +39-011-6337080. E-mail: secondo.fassino@unito.it
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Abstract

Summary

Objective - The question of how many psychopathologic factors are involved in Anorexia Nervosa (AN) and Bulimia Nervosa (BN) has no definite answer. The combination of psychopathology and personality research may shed a light upon the determinants of eating pathology. Methods - The study consists inthe administration of the Temperament and Character Inventory (TCI) and the Eating Disorder Inventory 2 (EDI-2) to 95 outpatient anorectic women (50 restrictive and 45 binge-purging) and to 92 bulimic outpatientwomen (78 with and 14 without purging behaviours). The respective scores of each DCA subgroup are compared. Results - Restricter anorectics are characterised by lower novelty seeking on respect to all the other groups and by a higher self-directedness on respect to bingeing-purging anorectics and purging bulimics. Alsopsychopathologic differences between restricter anorectics and the other groups are extensive. Bingeing-purging anorexia shares many traits with bulimia. Conclusions - In their complex, data suggest and in-deep study aimed to a possible re-classification of EDs which would take impulsiveness in greater consideration. The differences in temperament and character traits may partially be responsible of the repression or discontrol of impulsive eating behaviours in different ED subtypes.

Declaration of Interest

Authors received grants and research support from Regione Piemonte (Project no. 19701/27001).

Keywords

anorexiabulimiapersonalitypsychopathologyTCIcontinuum
Type
Original Papers
Information
Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences , Volume 12 , Issue 4 , December 2003 , pp. 293 - 300
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2003

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