Eating problems and personality traits. An Italian pilot study among 992 high school students

Abbate-Daga, Giovanni; Gramaglia, Carla; Malfi, G.; Pierò, Andrea; Fassino, Secondo

doi:10.1002/erv.770

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“…These data are consistent with the results of previous studies that have identified these traits as characterizing ED samples when compared to healthy controls [12]. Other studies have shown that these traits persist after recovery from the ED [50] and that they are altered in adolescents at high risk for developing a clinically significant ED [30]. Both in the acute phase and after remission, also patients with MD but without ED obtained high HA and low SD scores on the TCI [17–23].…”

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“…This association is supported by previous researches showing that individuals with purging symptomatology are more likely to show comorbid disorders and greater clinical severity [30, 31]. Also our group in previous studies found a correlation—although not related to diagnosis—with purging symptomatology [5].…”

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“…This correlation between a severe depressive symptomatology and ED severity validated the results of previous studies and confirmed expected hypothesis [2, 3, 30]. Moreover it is well known in literature that eating symptomatology is also associated with depression in women, even among those with no history of threshold-level eating disorder symptomatology [43].…”

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Eating Disorders and Major Depression: Role of Anger and Personality

Abbate-Daga

Gramaglia

Marzola

et al. 2011

Depression Research and Treatment

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This study aimed to evaluate comorbidity for MD in a large ED sample and both personality and anger as clinical characteristics of patients with ED and MD. We assessed 838 ED patients with psychiatric evaluations and psychometric questionnaires: Temperament and Character Inventory, Eating Disorder Inventory-2, Beck Depression Inventory, and State-Trait Anger Expression Inventory. 19.5% of ED patients were found to suffer from comorbid MD and 48.7% reported clinically significant depressive symptomatology: patients with Anorexia Binge-Purging and Bulimia Nervosa were more likely to be diagnosed with MD. Irritable mood was found in the 73% of patients with MD. High Harm Avoidance (HA) and low Self-Directedness (SD) predicted MD independently of severity of the ED symptomatology, several clinical variables, and ED diagnosis. Assessing both personality and depressive symptoms could be useful to provide effective treatments. Longitudinal studies are needed to investigate the pathogenetic role of HA and SD for ED and MD.

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Eating Disorders and Major Depression: Role of Anger and Personality

Abbate-Daga

Gramaglia

Marzola

et al. 2011

Depression Research and Treatment

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“…As far as gender differences are concerned, the higher prevalence of unhealthy eating behaviours and attitudes among women is a well-known fact [26,27,28]. Furthermore, no significant differences have been found amongst females according to the academic discipline.…”

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Lifestyle and Health among Spanish University Students: Differences by Gender and Academic Discipline

Varela-Mato

Cancela

Ayán

et al. 2012

IJERPH

119

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Today the need to analyze health behaviour from a gender perspective is as imminent as ever, particularly at university, where the number of women who register is on the rise and has exceeded the number of male students worldwide. We carried out a prevalence study aimed at analyzing Spanish university students’ lifestyles and identify differences according to gender and academic discipline. Of 3,646 eligible subjects doing university courses related to health (Group A), education (Group B) and other professions (Group C), 985 (27.0%) participated in the study. Information was elicited about their physical activity level, disturbed eating attitudes, consumption of alcohol, tobacco and illegal substances. Prevalence and Odds Ratios (OR) were calculated according to sex and kind of academic discipline. The obtained data confirmed that only 27.4% of the students were considered as sufficiently active, while 14.9% of them suffered from disturbed eating attitudes (DEA). Women were particularly less active (OR 0.46 (0.32–0.66); p < 0.0001), and more sedentary than men (OR 1.40 (1.00–1.97); p = 0.03). Binge drinking was more frequent in female than in male students (OR 1.79 (1.29–2.47); p = 0.0004). A third of the analyzed sample admitted that they had used illegal substances, while a lower consumption prevalence was found in women (OR 0.53 (0.40–0.71); p < 0.0001). The studied population was not very active (27.4%), especially women (OR = 0.45). Therefore, it seems that Spanish university students lead an unhealthy lifestyle, a situation which seems more conspicuous amongst females.

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“…Although our participants were sampled from a non-clinical population, several studies have shown that body dissatisfaction is pervasive among young women (Kenardy et al, 2001; McCabe and Ricciardelli, 2001; Abbate-Daga et al, 2007). A discrepancy between reliable others’ body perception and self- vs. metacognitive representation of one’s own body is in keeping with studies by Jansen et al (2005, 2006).…”

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“What Women Like”: Influence of Motion and Form on Esthetic Body Perception

Cazzato¹,

Siega²,

Urgesi³

2012

Front. Psychology

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Several studies have shown the distinct contribution of motion and form to the esthetic evaluation of female bodies. Here, we investigated how variations of implied motion and body size interact in the esthetic evaluation of female and male bodies in a sample of young healthy women. Participants provided attractiveness, beauty, and liking ratings for the shape and posture of virtual renderings of human bodies with variable body size and implied motion. The esthetic judgments for both shape and posture of human models were influenced by body size and implied motion, with a preference for thinner and more dynamic stimuli. Implied motion, however, attenuated the impact of extreme body size on the esthetic evaluation of body postures, while body size variations did not affect the preference for more dynamic stimuli. Results show that body form and action cues interact in esthetic perception, but the final esthetic appreciation of human bodies is predicted by a mixture of perceptual and affective evaluative components.

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Eating problems and personality traits. An Italian pilot study among 992 high school students

Abstract: Dieting and higher BMI are confirmed as correlates of eating problems. Personality traits measured with the TCI emerge for the first time as correlates of eating problems. Longitudinal studies should clear whether these are risk factors or not.

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Eating Disorders and Major Depression: Role of Anger and Personality

Eating Disorders and Major Depression: Role of Anger and Personality

Lifestyle and Health among Spanish University Students: Differences by Gender and Academic Discipline

“What Women Like”: Influence of Motion and Form on Esthetic Body Perception

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