title: Clinical, psychological, and personality correlates of asceticism in anorexia nervosa: from saint anorexia to pathologic perfectionism.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neuroscience, Psychiatric Institute, University of Turin, Turin, Italy. secondo.fassino@unito.it
authors.forename: Secondo
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Fassino
authors.forename: Andrea
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Pierò
authors.forename: Carla
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Gramaglia
authors.forename: Giovanni Abbate
authors.initials: GA
authors.lastname: Daga
authors.forename: Marina
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Gandione
authors.forename: Giovanni Giacomo
authors.initials: GG
authors.lastname: Rovera
authors.forename: Goffredo
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Bartocci
mesh_terms: 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