Clinical, psychological, and personality correlates of asceticism in anorexia nervosa: from saint anorexia to pathologic perfectionism.
This study investigated the personality and clinical correlates of asceticism in 154 anorectic patients. Multiple linear regression models showed that asceticism was related to angry temperament, high control over anger, perfectionism, maturity fears, and number of vomiting episodes per week. These results suggest that the self-discipline and hypercontrol of anorectic patients are related to a temperament prone to angry feelings in subjects with a fear of becoming adult and with a trait of pathologic perfectionism.
Fassino
Secondo
S
Department of Neuroscience, Psychiatric Institute, University of Turin, Turin, Italy. secondo.fassino@unito.it
Pierò
Andrea
A
Gramaglia
Carla
C
Daga
Giovanni Abbate
GA
Gandione
Marina
M
Rovera
Giovanni Giacomo
GG
Bartocci
Goffredo
G
D000293:Adolescent; D000786:Anger; D000856:Anorexia Nervosa / Q000523:psychology*; D015992:Body Mass Index; D003431:Cross-Cultural Comparison; D003674:Defense Mechanisms; D005239:Fear; D005260:Female; D005783:Gender Identity; D006801:Humans; D007389:Internal-External Control; D009042:Motivation; D010555:Personality Inventory; D012741:Sexual Maturation; D013223:Statistics as Topic; D013694:Temperament