Personality in Anorexia nervosa: An update and a theoretical integration
作者:
S. Sohlberg,
M. Strober,
期刊:
Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica
(WILEY Available online 1994)
卷期:
Volume 89,
issue 1
页码: 1-15
ISSN:0001-690X
年代: 1994
DOI:10.1111/j.1600-0447.1994.tb05809.x
出版商: Blackwell Publishing Ltd
关键词: personality;temperament;anorexia nervosa;eating disorder;dieting
数据来源: WILEY
摘要:
No single cause is likely to be of supreme importance in the etiology of Anorexia nervosa, but personality factors continue to attract researchers' attention. This paper is a review of evidence on the subject, covering psychometric, interview, and projective investigations. Significant methodological problems exist in the literature, but do not suffice to explain findings of obsessive and inhibited features intermixed with impulsivity, and a high prevalence of defined personality disorders. Adding to previous work by Cloninger and Strober we suggest that vulnerable individuals are temperamentally incapable of coping with the challenges of adolescence by anything other than repetitive, reward seeking behavior. In a social environment that greatly emphasizes thinness as a criterion for self‐worth and success, the outcome may be Anorexia nervos
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