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Personality and Eating Disorders: A Longitudinal Study on a Non-Clinical Sample of Adolescents
De Caro, Elide Francesca
Di Blas, Lisa
2014
Abstract
The present longitudinal study is aimed at analyzing how
adolescents change their dysfunctional attitudes towards their
body and eating behaviors in relation to personality
characteristics across a six-month time span. Via multiple
regression analyses we investigated whether MMPI-A
Obsessiveness, Low Self-Esteem, Depression, Family
Problems and Concern for health are temporal antecedents of
EDI-2 eating disorders, and vice versa. Our main findings
revealed a bidirectional relationship between eating attitudes
and personality. In fact, Obsessiveness, Low self-esteem,
Depression, and Family problems significantly predicted
changes in different dysfunctional eating attitudes, but also
EDI-Interpersonal distrust and Ineffectiveness predicted
changes in different MMPI-A scale scores. All together,
findings suggest that personality development in adolescence
is sensitive to attitudes towards eating and body appearance,
and vice versa.
Publisher
EUT Edizioni Università di Trieste
Source
Elide De Caro, Lisa Di Blas, "Personality and Eating Disorders: A Longitudinal Study on a Non-Clinical Sample of Adolescents" in: Paolo Bernardis, Carlo Fantoni, Walter Gerbino (eds.) "TSPC2014. Proceedings of the Trieste Symposium on Perception and Cognition, November 27-28", Trieste, EUT Edizioni Università di Trieste, 2014, pp. 103-105.
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