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Personality Disorders as Risk Factors for Eating Disorders
Author(s) -
Sansone Randy A.,
Sansone Lori A.
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
nutrition in clinical practice
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.725
H-Index - 71
eISSN - 1941-2452
pISSN - 0884-5336
DOI - 10.1177/0884533609357563
Subject(s) - eating disorders , personality , personality disorders , personality pathology , clinical psychology , sadistic personality disorder , medicine , psychiatry , psychology , social psychology
Personality disorders are oftentimes comorbid with eating disorders. According to a review of the literature, obsessive‐compulsive personality disorder is the most common Axis II disorder in eating‐disordered individuals with restrictive eating behavior, whereas borderline personality disorder is the most common Axis II disorder in those with impulsive eating pathology. Because personality disorders developmentally precede eating disorders and the characteristics of the personality disorder oftentimes mirror the style of eating pathology (eg, highly controlled personality styles and highly controlled eating patterns; impulsive personality styles and impulsive eating pathology), it is reasonable to assume that personality disorders influence subsequent eating pathology. Therefore, it is likely that personality disorders function, to some degree, as risk factors for the development of specific types of eating disorders. The authors discuss the clinical implications of these relationships.