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Personality correlates of disordered eating
Author(s) -
Squires Rose L.,
Kagan Dona M.
Publication year - 1986
Publication title -
international journal of eating disorders
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.785
H-Index - 138
eISSN - 1098-108X
pISSN - 0276-3478
DOI - 10.1002/1098-108x(198602)5:2<363::aid-eat2260050215>3.0.co;2-d
Subject(s) - dieting , psychology , personality , clinical psychology , disordered eating , distress , addiction , personality assessment inventory , psychometrics , big five personality traits , eating disorder inventory , eating disorders , developmental psychology , psychiatry , bulimia nervosa , weight loss , social psychology , medicine , obesity
As part of a larger study, 299 college students completed two self‐report measures of eating behavior and four other personality scales. Scores obtained on a new Compulsiveness Inventory—particularly the Indecision subscale—were related to scores on the MacAndrew addiction scale were associated with Compulsive Eating and with Dieting; whereas among females, a measure of Type A behavior was related to each eating measure. Measures of compulsiveness and addiction accounted for 26% of variance (R = .51) obtained by males on the Dieting Scale; and males who scored above the mean on the Compulsive Eating Scale obtained a mean of the MacAndrew scale that was equivalent to the alcoholic cut‐off. In toto, results suggested that, although compulsive eating among females may have represented simply a stress response, among males it may have reflected more pervasive psychological distress.