A controlled study of personality traits in female adolescents with eating disorders

作者：Liley Lois J; Watson Hunna J^*; Seah Elizabeth; Priddis Lynn E; Kane Robert T

来源：Clinical Psychologist, 2013, 17(3): 115-121.

DOI：10.1111/cp.12012

• adolescent
• eating disorders
• MACI
• personality

BackgroundAmong adults, personality traits have been implicated in the development and maintenance of eating disorders (EDs); whether these findings extend to youth is unknown. The aim of this study was to investigate personality traits of adolescents with EDs. %26lt;br%26gt;MethodsA case-control approach was performed by comparing a clinical group of female adolescents with EDs (n=23) to a control group of adolescents in the general community (n=26) on personality traits of inhibited, self-demeaning, and borderline tendency. Controls were frequency-matched to cases on age and sex, were drawn from a similar geographic catchment area, and observed in the same year as clinical cases. %26lt;br%26gt;ResultsThe clinical group demonstrated significantly higher scores on self-demeaning (F(1,47)=41.39, p%26lt;.001, (2)=.075), borderline (F(1,47)=24.50, p%26lt;.001, (2)=.093), and inhibited (F(1,47)=13.33, p=.001, (2)=.014) personality styles. Adjustment for affective symptomatology diminished the strength of these relationships, but personality pathology still demarcated the group with clinical EDs. %26lt;br%26gt;ConclusionsThe well-established link between personality pathology and EDs in adults generalised to adolescents.

• 出版日期2013-11