Issues and concerns associated with different risk models for eating disorders

Article Abstract:

The nonsymptom risk model for identifying people who may be vulnerable to eating disorders (EDs) gives good results and opens up areas for further research in high-risk methodology. The method is based on behavioral vulnerability which is easy to determine. Risk is defined on the basis of behavioral markers, which allows the characterization of a large group of ED patients. The symptom-related risk approach identifies patients on the basis of weakened EDs and psychiatric symptoms but it is difficult to determine if these symptoms are due to a pathological process or vulnerability to EDs.

Methods, Risk factors (Health), Diagnosis

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A controlled study of trait narcissism in anorexia and bulimia nervosa

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The trait of narcissism in people with eating disorders (ED) was examined. The personality traits of subjects with ED, with another psychiatric disturbance and without apparent disturbance, were measured using selected subscales from the Dimensional Assessment for Personality Pathology. This was to test the hypotheses that narcissism should load more heavily in ED subjects, and that the level of narcissism should be similar for restricter and binger/purger patients. It was found that ED patients exhibited similar tendencies toward narcissism regardless of differences in ED types.

Narcissism, Personality, Personality (Psychology)

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Testing a dual-process family model in understanding the development of eating pathology: a structural equation modeling analysis

Article Abstract:

A dual-process family model reveals that dysfunctional family environment predisposes high school adolescent girls to the development of eating and psychiatric pathology, through two interrelated pathways. The model incorporates dysfunctional family relationships and self-concept deficits. Family preoccupation with appearance and weight directly effects body dissatisfaction and eating pathology. Family dysfunction directly affects the negative self-esteem, and indirectly affects eating and psychiatric symptoms, through negative self-esteem.

Psychological aspects, High school students, Surveys, Teenagers, Youth, Mental illness, Mental disorders, Family, Interpersonal relations

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