Personality Traits and Disorders Associated with Anorexia Nervosa, Bulimia Nervosa, and Binge Eating Disorder
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...However, bulimic syndromes often show unique additional associations with panic disorder, dramatic-erratic personality disorders, and alcohol and substance dependence, as well as with traits of novelty seeking, impulsivity, and affective instability.(10,11) In other words, bulimic syndromes often coincide with a generalized flavour of disinhibition or dysregulation....
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...Not surprisingly, dysregulated individuals reportedly display more comorbid psychopathology (for example, depression, self-mutilation, or drug abuse), developmental disturbance (for example, child abuse or attachment problems), and probably, poorer treatment outcome.(10)...
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...Finally, because this investigation is correlational and not longitudinal, no direction of causality can be inferred: whether these personality dimensions are etiologic or maintenance factors, by-products of the eating disorder or of “maladjustment” [51], or some combination is unclear and needs further study using repeated measure designs....
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...Instead of such a focus upon the ways in which particular corporeal orientations/(particular bodies) are Chapter Two: Exploring social constructions of the ‘thin/fat’ body 18 ascribed with certain meanings, values and potential, and how these may be nurtured and endorsed within the daily school context, within which many young people spend many hours of their lives (Evans, Rich, Allwood & Davies, 2008a: 387), the majority of the literature on disordered eating has worked to define a variety of ‘characteristics, personality traits and clinical features’ thought to identify the typical patient to be diagnosed as ‘eating disordered’ (e.g. Perkins, Klump, Iacono & Mcgue, 2005; Steiger & Bruce, 2004)....
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...…387), the majority of the literature on disordered eating has worked to define a variety of ‘characteristics, personality traits and clinical features’ thought to identify the typical patient to be diagnosed as ‘eating disordered’ (e.g. Perkins, Klump, Iacono & Mcgue, 2005; Steiger & Bruce, 2004)....
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...…to negative emotionality (Kaye, Fudge, & Paulus, 2009), whereas BN has been associated with more heterogeneity in personality, including both affective instability and impulsivity as well as perfectionism, obsessionality, and compulsivity (Steiger & Bruce, 2004; Wonderlich et al., 2005)....
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