Cognitive characteristics of bulimic and drug-abusing women.
This descriptive study contrasted specific coping styles, attitudes, and irrational beliefs among three groups of women: bulimics, drug abusers, and a normative comparison group. The substance abuse groups were found to be more irrational than the comparison group and were moodier and more socially alienated. They also were prone to a negative view of the world and a bleak outlook toward the future. Bulimic subjects put considerable importance on others' approval, tended to denigrate themselves, and were under a lot of self imposed pressure and chronic tension; drug abuse subjects were more introversive, perfectionistic, and subject to recent stress. By contrast, the normative comparison group appeared confident, sociable, and optimistic.
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Ohio State University, Columbus.
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D000328:Adult; D002032:Bulimia / Q000523:psychology*; D002648:Child; D002649:Child Abuse / Q000523:psychology; D003071:Cognition; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007439:Introversion, Psychological; D012649:Self Concept; D012918:Social Alienation; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000523:psychology; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders / Q000523:psychology*