Personality Pathology Comorbidity in Adult Females with Eating Disorders

Filip de Fruyt , Marleen De Bolle , Barbara de Clercq , Alexandra Pham-Scottez (1, 2) , Saskia Mels (3) , Jean-Pierre Rolland (4) , Julien Daniel Guelfi , Caroline Braet (5)

1 UMR_S 669 - Troubles du comportement alimentaire de l'adolescent
2 Clinique des Maladies Mentales et de l'Encéphale
3 Dept. of Developmental, Personality and Social Psychology
4 CeRSM - Centre de Recherche sur le Sport et le Mouvement
5 Department of Developmental, Personality and Social Psychology

Personality pathology is examined in 100 female in-patients diagnosed with eating disorders. The Eating Disorder Inventory-II and the NEO-PI-R were self-administered and personality pathology was assessed using a structured interview. Clinicians additionally evaluated patients' global functioning. The results indicated sizeable personality disorder comorbidity, and two dimensions of personality pathology, for example, an internalizing and an externalizing factor, could be identified. Patients' global functioning was primarily associated with dimensions of personality pathology, but not with eating disorder symptoms. Assessment and therapeutic interventions should focus on this co-occurring pathology in order to improve patients' functioning.

Mots clés: Adult; Comorbidity; Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders; Emotion Cognition et Comportement; Europe; Feeding and Eating Disorders; Female; Humans; Inpatients; Interviews as Topic; Personality disorders; Young Adult

Domaines: Sciences cognitives; Psychologie

Filip de Fruyt, Marleen De Bolle, Barbara de Clercq, Alexandra Pham-Scottez, Saskia Mels, et al.. Personality Pathology Comorbidity in Adult Females with Eating Disorders. Journal of Health Psychology, 2011, 16 (2), pp.303-313. ⟨10.1177/1359105310374780⟩. ⟨hal-01469883⟩