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TCI temperamental scores in bulimia nervosa patients and normal women with and without diet experiences
Author(s) -
Mizushima H.,
Ono Y.,
Asai M.
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
acta psychiatrica scandinavica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.849
H-Index - 146
eISSN - 1600-0447
pISSN - 0001-690X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1600-0447.1998.tb10072.x
Subject(s) - bulimia nervosa , novelty seeking , psychology , temperament , novelty , medicine , clinical psychology , psychiatry , personality , eating disorders , social psychology
In order to distinguish the trigger and the factors maintaining bulimia nervosa (BN), TCI temperamental scores were compared among BN patients, normal controls without diet experiences (N‐N), and normal controls with diet experiences (N‐D). On the novelty‐seeking (NS) scale, the BN patients scored significantly higher than the N‐N subjects, but there was no significant difference between the BN patients and the N‐D subjects, and the N‐D subjects scored higher than the N‐N subjects. These findings suggest that high NS scores are related to diet experiences rather than chronic bulimic symptoms.