[Self-esteem, strategies of coping and feeling of anger in french patients with anorexia nervosa].
OBJECTIVE
The aim of this study is to evaluate and compare self-esteem, coping strategies and feeling of anger in French populations with anorexia nervosa.


METHODS
Thirty two adolescents with anorexia nervosa were investigated during their hospitalisation in the Psychiatric Department of the Hospital Sainte-Croix of Metz and of the Hospital of Children of Nancy-Brabois. The control group consisted of 57 French students of the University of Verlaine Paul in Metz. An anonymous questionnaire form concerning family life, the state of health and course of illness, the Self Esteem Inventory by Coopersmith (1984), the Brief COPE by Carver (1997) and the Self Expression Control Scale by Van Elderen et al. (1997) were applied to 89 women.


CONCLUSIONS
The results showed that there are statistically significant differences between self-esteem, coping strategies and feeling of anger in French anorexics and the French group control. French anorectic adolescents show low social, familial and general self-esteem. They can be described as making less use of acceptance, humour and focus on and venting of emotions as the coping strategies, as usually not reinterpreting the situation positively in order to deal with emotional distress (do not use the coping strategy of positive reinterpretation) and as reducing their efforts to cope with the situation (behavioural disengagement). French anorexics conceptualise their anger against themselves (the interiorisation of anger).
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Katedra Psychologii Zdrowia Uniwersytetu w Metz, Francja.
D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000293:Adolescent; D000294:Adolescent Behavior / Q000523:psychology*; D000786:Anger; D000856:Anorexia Nervosa / Q000523:psychology*; D001007:Anxiety / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D005602:France; D006801:Humans; D007389:Internal-External Control; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D009769:Object Attachment; D010290:Parents / Q000523:psychology; D026684:Personal Autonomy; D012307:Risk Factors; D012649:Self Concept; D012931:Social Environment; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires