Parents’ personality clusters and eating disordered daughters’ personality and psychopathology

Neuroimaging and Attachment in Eating Disorders: Parental Love Nurtues the Brain

“…These results confirm the findings of Witkowska and coworkers [36] and other studies on parenting [37] sustaining that young women with AN perceive their mothers as more demanding and less caring than subjects from general population. More in general these results support the clinical experience and the early theories about eating disorders that postulate those whole family systems and their rules may have a great effect on the creation and maintenance of eating disorders [34,35,38].…”

“…According to previous literature, they found that non-secure attachment is prevalent in AN with similar patterns of those already found [32,33]. The role of parents in the onset and the development of AN is controversial (Amianto et al, 2013(Amianto et al, , 2015a; Fassino et al, 2009) [34,35], but it is supported by these results. In particular AN subjects experienced higher pressure to achieve and lower love received from the mothers.…”

Validation of the Caregiver Skills (CASK) scale in Catalonia: Concordance between caregivers in attitudes and behaviours

“…Sharing duties between parents and training caregivers to adopt a more balanced emotional attitude towards the pathology may aid caregivers and patients with EDs alike (Perez Algorta et al, ). On the other hand, one other explanation may be related to differing personality traits between parents (Amianto, Daga, Bertorello, & Fassino, ; Amianto, Ercole, Abbate Daga, & Fassino, ; Amianto, Ercole, Marzola, Abbate Daga, & Fassino, ). Martín et al () reported that female relatives were more likely to endorse higher levels of anxiety, depression, and burden of caring.…”

Paternity and Parenting in the Context of Eating Disorders: An Integrative Literature Review

“…The scarcity of studies that address the father-daughter relationship is incongruous with the affective-emotional importance of the father figure and its possible contribution to the plot of unconscious fantasies that support the symptoms of EDs. Amianto et al (2015) point out the association between the father's personality traits and the daughter's symptom levels and, according to Nielsen (2014), the daughter's perception of her relationship with her father plays a significant role in the development and maintenance of EDs. Geraldo and Lange (2017) indicate that, in many cases of AN, the paternal function is absent or compromised.…”