A comparison of the attitudes of young anorexia nervosa patients and non‐patients with those of their mothers

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ID9618652
AuthorsAnne Hall, L B Brown (UNSW Sydney, corresponding author)
Year1983
Volume56
Issue1
Pages39-48
Publication date1983-03-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueBritish Journal of Medical Psychology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0007-1129 • E-ISSN: 2056-5194
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.2044-8341.1983.tb01530.x
PMID6838780
OpenAlexW2020458311
LanguageEN
Citations received7

Attitudes towards ‘sickness’, ‘arguments’, ‘tension’, ‘social isolation’, ‘thinness’, ‘growing up’ and ‘grown up’ were investigated in 20 young female anorexia nervosa patients and their mothers, and in 32 volunteer non‐patient schoolgirls and their mothers. A computer‐generated semantic differential questionnaire was completed by each daughter and her mother, first for herself and then as she thought the other person would have answered it. The majority of significant differences occurred between the anorexic daughters and their mothers as a group, and the non‐patient daughters and mothers as a group. The anorexia nervosa group rated ‘sickness’, ‘arguments' and ‘tension’ more favourably than did the non‐patients, while the patients rated ‘thinness' and ‘social isolation’ less favourably than did the non‐patient group. Neither group of mothers and daughters consistently misjudged each other

Anorexia · Anorexia nervosa · Daughter · Developmental psychology · Eating disorders · Isolation (microbiology) · Psychiatry · Social isolation · Clinical Psychology · Eating Disorders and Behaviors · Medicine · Psychology

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