Alexithymia in a Clinical Sample of Obese Women

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ID13671729
AuthorsA Morosin (Applied Technology for Psychology Laboratory, Centro Auxologico Italiano, corresponding author), Giuseppe Riva (0000-0003-3657-106X, IRCCS Istituto Auxologico Italiano)
Year1997
Volume80
Issue2
Pages387-394
Publication date1997-04-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenuePsychological Reports (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0033-2941 • E-ISSN: 1558-691X
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.2466/pr0.1997.80.2.387
PMID9129358
OpenAlexW2162520803
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited31

The purpose was to examine the rate of alexithymia as measured by the Toronto Alexithymia Scale in a clinical sample of obese women without Binge Eating Disorder. Subjects included 165 inpatients in an eating disorder unit and 135 normal-weight individuals (comparison group). The obese subjects also completed a series of tests including the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory, the Anxiety Scale Questionnaire, and the Eating Attitude Test. Analysis showed that the subgroups of obese persons differ in important ways and cannot necessarily be treated, studied, or understood through a single paradigm. Alexithymic behaviour, too, was not characteristic of obesity, but it was present only in the subgroup of subjects with psychopathological characteristics

Alexithymia · Anxiety · Binge-eating disorder · Bulimia nervosa · Eating disorders · Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory · Obesity · Personality · Personality Assessment Inventory · Psychiatry · Psychopathology · Toronto Alexithymia Scale · Clinical Psychology · Eating Disorders and Behaviors · Internal Medicine · Medicine · Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders · Psychology · Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments

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