Relationships among attachment styles, personality characteristics, and disordered eating

Article Abstract:

Personality characteristics appear to be robust predictors of disordered eating and the possibility that the link between attachment and disordered eating might be through personality styles was examined. An indirect relationship between attachment style and disordered eating was suggested by the results in that associations between insecure-resistant attachment and disordered eating were fully mediated by neuroticism.

Analysis, Eating disorders, Personality assessment

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Eating disorder symptomatology among ballet dancers

Article Abstract:

A study compared eating disorder symtomatology among ballet dancers and non-dancers with restricting anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa and no eating pathology. The results suggest that dancers often engage in binge eating and purging behaviors, furthermore their pathology is as severe as that of non-dancers with eating disorders.

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Comorbidity and high-risk behaviors in treatment-seeking adolescents with bulimia nervosa

Article Abstract:

High rates of comorbid psychiatric conditions and high-risk behaviors that were observed in adolescents, enrolled in an RCT for bulimia nervosa (BN), are presented. It is felt that depressive symptoms may predict the beginning of eating disorder symptoms.

Youth, Health aspects, Care and treatment, Patient outcomes, Teenagers

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