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Scores on MacAndrew factors: Bulimics and other addictive populations
Author(s) -
Kagan Dona M.,
Albertson Larry 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(198609)5:6<1095::aid-eat2260050614>3.0.co;2-d
Subject(s) - psychology , addiction , personality , clinical psychology , addictive behavior , developmental psychology , compulsive behavior , psychiatry , social psychology
Is there a general addictive personality profile? If so, how closely do individuals with eating disorders or with a tendency to eat compulsively fit the profile? To answer these questions we administered six factors of the MacAndrew Scale to groups of control subjects, alcoholics, compulsive gamblers, smokers, and bulimics. Alcoholics scored significantly higher than each of the other groups on Social Maladjustment and Cognitive Impairment. Smokers, gamblers, and bulimics emerged as more socially adept kinds of addicts. No single addictive profile emerged across groups. The MacAndrew factors appeared of little value as tools for examining disordered eating, defined either in terms of normal or clinical behavior.