title: Parents' personality clusters and eating disordered daughters' personality and psychopathology.
abstract: The present study explores how parents' personality clusters relate to their eating disordered daughters' personality and psychopathology. Mothers and fathers were tested with the Temperament Character Inventory. Their daughters were assessed with the following: Temperament and Character Inventory, Eating Disorder Inventory-2, Symptom Checklist-90, Parental Bonding Instrument, Attachment Style Questionnaire, and Family Assessment Device. Daughters' personality traits and psychopathology scores were compared between clusters. Daughters' features were related to those of their parents. Explosive/adventurous mothers were found to relate to their daughters' borderline personality profile and more severe interoceptive awareness. Mothers' immaturity was correlated to their daughters' higher character immaturity, inadequacy, and depressive feelings. Fathers who were explosive/methodic correlated with their daughters' character immaturity, severe eating, and general psychopathology. Fathers' character immaturity only marginally related to their daughters' specific features. Both parents' temperament clusters and mothers' character clusters related to patients' personality and eating psychopathology. The cluster approach to personality-related dynamics of families with an individual affected by an eating disorder expands the knowledge on the relationship between parents' characteristics and daughters' illness, suggesting complex and unique relationships correlating parents' personality traits to their daughters' disorder.
authors: Department of Neuroscience, Psychiatry Section, Regional Expert Centre for Eating Disorders, University of Turin, Italy.
authors: Federico
authors: F
authors: Amianto
authors: Department of Neuroscience, Psychiatry Section, Regional Expert Centre for Eating Disorders, University of Turin, Italy.
authors: Roberta
authors: R
authors: Ercole
authors: Department of Neuroscience, Psychiatry Section, Regional Expert Centre for Eating Disorders, University of Turin, Italy.
authors: Enrica
authors: E
authors: Marzola
authors: Department of Neuroscience, Psychiatry Section, Regional Expert Centre for Eating Disorders, University of Turin, Italy.
authors: Giovanni
authors: G
authors: Abbate Daga
authors: Department of Neuroscience, Psychiatry Section, Regional Expert Centre for Eating Disorders, University of Turin, Italy.
authors: Secondo
authors: S
authors: Fassino
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D016000:Cluster Analysis; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D001068:Feeding and Eating Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009679:Nuclear Family / Q000523:psychology*; D010290:Parents / Q000523:psychology*; D010551:Personality; D010554:Personality Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000523:psychology*; D010555:Personality Inventory; D011599:Psychopathology; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: Character; Daughters; Eating disorders; Father; Mother; Psychopathology; Temperament