title: Do men with eating disorders differ from women in clinics, psychopathology and personality?
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To determine if male and female eating disorders differ in clinics, psychopathology and personality traits when compared with a healthy group.
  
  
  METHODS
  Sixty male and 60 female eating disorder individuals (16% anorexia nervosa, 42% bulimia nervosa and 42% eating disorder not otherwise specified), matched for age and diagnostic, were compared with 120 healthy-eating participants (60 male and 60 female participants). All were diagnosed according to the criteria of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition, Text Revision. Assessment measures included Eating Disorder Inventory--2, Symptom Checklist--Revised and Temperament and Character Inventory--Revised, as well as other clinical and psychopathological indices.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Male eating disorder participants reported significant lower laxative abuse (p = 0.020) and significant higher vomiting episodes (p = 0.019) than female eating disorder participants. Differences on drive for thinness, body dissatisfaction and some Symptom Checklist--Revised scales were found across genders in eating disorder participants. Male eating disorder participants scored significantly lower than female participants with eating disorders on harm avoidance, reward dependence and cooperativeness.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Although eating disorder clinical features were similar across genders, male eating disorder participants had less body image concern and general psychopathology than female eating disorder participants.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, University Hospital of Bellvitge-IDIBELL, Barcelona, Spain.
authors.forename: Araceli
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Núñez-Navarro
authors.forename: Zaida
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Agüera
authors.forename: Isabel
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Krug
authors.forename: Susana
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Jiménez-Murcia
authors.forename: Isabel
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Sánchez
authors.forename: Noemí
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Araguz
authors.forename: Phillip
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Gorwood
authors.forename: Roser
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Granero
authors.forename: Eva
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Penelo
authors.forename: Andreas
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Karwautz
authors.forename: Laura
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Moragas
authors.forename: Sandra
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Saldaña
authors.forename: Janet
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Treasure
authors.forename: José Manuel
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Menchón
authors.forename: Fernando
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Fernández-Aranda
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001828:Body Image; D016022:Case-Control Studies; D001068:Feeding and Eating Disorders / Q000503:physiopathology* / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008571:Men / Q000523:psychology*; D010551:Personality / Q000502:physiology*; D010555:Personality Inventory; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014930:Women / Q000523:psychology*; D055815:Young Adult