Personality traits associated with eating disorders and obesity in young Argentineans

GARRIDO, SEBASTIAN JESÚS; FUNES, PAOLA NOELIA; PEÑALOZA MERLO, MARÍA EMILSE; CUPANI, MARCOS

EATING AND WEIGHT DISORDERS-STUDIES ON ANOREXIA BULIMIA AND OBESITY

EDITRICE KURTIS S R L

Año: 2018 vol. 23 p. 571 - 571

1124-4909

urpose: Few studies have been conducted on Latin American population to explore how facets of personality, eating disorders, and obesity are related. The main purpose of this study was to explore the personality traits among patients diagnosed with anorexia nervosa (n = 23), bulimia nervosa (n = 32), and obesity (n = 16), in comparison to control group (n = 82). Methods: A total of 153 individuals participated in the study, 125 were female (81.7%) and 28 were male (18.3%). Participants? ages ranged between 18 and 37 years (mean 24.21, SD 4.84) and they were all native Spanish speakers, living in the city of Córdoba, Argentina. Participants completed the Eating Disorder Inventory-2 and the IPIP-NEO Personality Inventory. Results: In this study, the subjects diagnosed with anorexia in comparison to control group showed high and significant scores in neuroticism and openness to experience and low scores on agreeableness, conscientiousness, and extraversion. For their part, the subjects d