作者
Stephen A Wonderlich, Ross D Crosby, Thomas Joiner, Carol B Peterson, Anna Bardone-Cone, Marjorie Klein, Scott Crow, James E Mitchell, Daniel Le Grange, Howard Steiger, Greg Kolden, Frank Johnson, Suzanne Vrshek
发表日期
2005/5
期刊
Psychological Medicine
卷号
35
期号
5
页码范围
649-657
出版商
Cambridge University Press
简介
Background
There is empirical evidence suggesting that individuals with bulimia nervosa vary considerably in terms of psychiatric co-morbidity and personality functioning. In this study, latent profile analysis was used to attempt to identify clusters of bulimic subjects based on psychiatric co-morbidity and personality.
Method
A total of 178 women with bulimia nervosa or a subclinical variant of bulimia nervosa completed a series of self-report inventories of co-morbid psychopathology and personality, and also provided a buccal smear sample for genetic analyses.
Results
Three clusters of bulimic women were identified: an affective-perfectionistic cluster, an impulsive cluster, and a low co-morbid psychopathology cluster. The clusters showed expected differences on external validation tests with both personality and eating-disorder measures. The impulsive cluster showed the highest elevations on dissocial behavior …
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