Personality and family disturbances in eating-disorder patients: Comparison of “restricters” and “bingers” to normal controls

✍ Scribed by Steiger, Howard ;Liquornik, Karen ;Chapman, Jennifer ;Hussain, Nadeem

• Publisher: Wiley (John Wiley & Sons)
• Year: 1991
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 820 KB
• Volume: 10
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0276-3478
• DOI: 10.1002/1098-108x(199109)10:5<501::aid-eat2260100502>3.0.co;2-z

✦ Synopsis

Presence of DSM-/ILK personality disorders was examined in 67 women with eating disorders (anorexic restricters, anorexic bingers, and bulimics with or without a prior history of anorexia nervosai and in 25 noneating-disordered women. Additional measures of family functioning were available in 5.5 of the eating disorders (EDsi and 24 controls. Personality and family disturbances (as measured by the Personality Diagnostic Questionnaire-Revised and the Family Assessment Device) were prevalent among the EDs, but "restricteribinger" differences were not indicated on either measure. Hence results did not support a "restricteribinger dichotomy" concept. They also questioned the degree to which personality problems in ED patients may be consequences of eating disturbances, since severity of personality disorder, while related to reported family dysfunction, was unrelated to severity of eating symptoms.