Scores on MacAndrew factors: Bulimics and other addictive populations

✍ Scribed by Kagan, Dona M. ;Albertson, Larry M.

• Book ID: 101347293
• Publisher: Wiley (John Wiley & Sons)
• Year: 1986
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 342 KB
• Volume: 5
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0276-3478
• DOI: 10.1002/1098-108x(198609)5:6<1095::aid-eat2260050614>3.0.co;2-d

✦ Synopsis

Is there a general addictive personality profile? If so, how closely do individuals with eating disorders or with a tendency to eat compulsively fit the profile? To answer these questions we administered six factors of the MacAndrew Scale to groups of control subjects, alcoholics, compulsive gamblers, smokers, and bulimics. Alcoholics scored significantly higher than each of the other groups on Social Maladjustment and Cognitive Impairment. Smokers, gamblers, and bulimics emerged as more socially adept kinds of addicts. No single addictive profile emerged across groups. The MacAndrew factors appeared of little value as tools for examining disordered eating, defined either in terms of normal or clinical behavior.