Outcome of anorexia nervosa: Eating attitudes, personality, and parental bonding

Parents’ personality clusters and eating disordered daughters’ personality and psychopathology

“…In line with previous research, these mothers show some fragile characteristics leading to blaming attitudes (Fassino et al, 2002(Fassino et al, , 2003(Fassino et al, , 2009); the eventual presence of a personality disorder may impact on the pathogenesis and course of eating symptoms (Bulik et al, 2000;Rorty et al, 2000;Polivy et al, 2002;Heru, 2006). The features of the MCC1 group were found to be linearly correlated to a lower development of self-directive skills in daughters and this finding echoes those of earlier literature on the relationship between parenting and daughters' character traits in (Oshino et al, 2007).…”

“…It is common to think that family is relevant in the pathogenesis of an eating disorder (ED); nevertheless, the link between parents' features and family dynamics and onset and course of eating pathology is still unknown (Bulik et al 2000;Rorty et al, 2000;Polivy et al, 2002;Heru, 2006). ED patients give inconsistent reports about parents' caring and attitudes (Bulik et al, 1999;De Panfilis et al, 2003;Hedlund et al, 2003) including competition, emotional distance, overconcern, criticism of eating, teasing and high expectations (Yates, 1989;Derkson, 1990;Meyer et al, 2004;Annus et al, 2007).…”

The Relationship between Disordered Eating, Perceived Parenting, and Perfectionistic Schemas

“…Tyrka et al 2002) and enduring amongst those considered recovered (e.g. Bulik et al 2000). However, the way in which some studies have defined recovery has been more recently questioned (Bardone-Cone et al 2010).…”

“…Since an objective measure of eating psychopathology was not included, neither do we know about the correlational patterns between levels of severity amongst the patient group and parenting/schemas. Bulik et al (2000) followed up a sample of 70 women with AN who had been assessed or treated over a decade earlier. On the PBI (Parker et al 1979), they found that women who were categorised as 'chronically ill' perceived both parents as significantly less caring than did those who were classified as either 'fully recovered' or 'partially recovered'.…”

Changes in EEG and autonomic nervous activity during meditation and their association with personality traits

“…The expressions used for the behaviors of mind induced during meditation also vary, but there are two core components (or some weighted combination of both), i.e., manipulation of one's attentional focus (internalized attention) and maximization of the breadth and clarity of self-awareness (mindfulness) (Mikulas, 1990). In addition, attitude (the mental set in which one approaches meditation) is considered to be an important factor affecting behaviors of mind during meditation (Dunn et al, 1999;Mikulas, 1990), and its close association with personality traits has been also reported (Bulik et al, 2000;Helmreich, 1984). Although it is fairly well known that proficient meditation involves the cultivation of internalized attention and/or mindfulness (Mikulas, 1990;Shapiro, 1982), the psychophysiological properties and personality traits that characterize these two behaviors of mind have not been adequately studied.…”