Similarities and differences on the MMPI between women with bulimia and women with alcohol or drug abuse problems

Hatsukami, Dorothy K.; Owen, Patricia; Pyle, Richard L.; Mitchell, Jerry T.

doi:10.1016/0306-4603(82)90015-6

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“…This avoidance bears considerable resemblance to the mechanism of relief-craving [23], which postulates that individuals characterized by a high stress reactivity personality style who use substances, do so primarily to reduce anxiety and tension. Other studies have also found that drugs are often used as a "self-medication" mechanism, to increase the inclination to detach and move away from painful negative affects such as anxiety, depression, or aggressiveness [4,10]. The avoidance of negative emotionality in our patients may correspond also to Clonninger's [24] harm avoidance temperament that represents an inclination to avoid changes and novel conditions and to react mainly to stimuli evoking negative emotionality.…”

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“…Personality tendencies may fulfill a central role in the predisposition to substance misuse [2]. Although the findings with respect to personality attributes in substance use disorders (SUDs) are still inconclusive, elevations on the Eysenck Addiction Scale [3], and on the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) scales of social withdrawal, anger, impulsivity, depression and anxiety have been found to differentiate SUD patients from individuals with other psychopathologies and/or from normal controls [4,5].…”

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“…Several personality attributes of seemingly two opposite categories have also been identified across a broad range of addictions. One category includes deficient regulation and elevated stress reactivity, sensation seeking, novelty seeking, depression, anxiety, anger and impulsivity, and the other includes increased harm avoidance anhedonia, dependency, alexithymia, and low self-esteem [4,[7][8][9][10].…”

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“…We have chosen to do so because studies in other domains have shown that CO questionnaires constructed for a specific behavior can be applied successfully for predicting other behaviors which share with the original behaviors at least a part of the underlying dynamics [16]. Along these lines of reasoning, ED patients have been found to show elevated addictiveness and to resemble SUD patients in major personality traits [4,5,17]. We have therefore used the CO-ED in SUD and ED patients [18], showing that ED patients resemble SUD patients and that both groups are markedly different from non-SUD non-ED controls in many motivational dispositions of the questionnaire.…”

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Cognitive orientation in substance use disorders and chronic cigarette smoking

Stein¹,

Ram²,

Sofer³

et al. 2017

Ment Health Addict Res

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We sought to identify cognitive-motivational dispositions for addictiveness in females with different addictions. For this purpose we assessed 20 women with substance use disorders (SUDs), 19 women who were routinely smoking at least 10 cigarettes daily for several years, and 24 control women. Cognitive-motivational dispositions were assessed with the 108-item Cognitive Orientation of Addictive Tendencies Questionnaire (COAT-Q), that converges to 25 content-related motivational themes and four basic belief types. Anxiety, depression, and addictiveness were also assessed. We found that compared with the controls, the SUD patients scored higher on addictiveness, depression, anxiety, all four COAT-Q-beliefs types, and three COAT-Q-theme clusters: dissociation from the self and from contacts with others, rejecting bad parts of the self, and the coexistent wish and fear of being loved. The chronic smokers scored mostly in-between the SUD patients and controls. These findings suggest that specific cognitive motivational dispositions may orient towards addictive behaviours in SUDs and chronic smoking.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Cognitive orientation in substance use disorders and chronic cigarette smoking

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Ram²,

Sofer³

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“…In the 1980s, for example, researchers conducted studies on the parallels between substance dependence and bulimia nervosa (BN). Participants completed personality questionnaires such as the MacAndrew Scales or the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire and then scores were compared between individuals with BN and individuals with substance dependence [14][15][16][17]. A lack of differences between groups was interpreted as individuals with BN having an 'addictive personality'.…”

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Five years of the Yale Food Addiction Scale: Taking stock and moving forward

2014

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Some forms of overeating show both behavioral and neurobiological similarities to substance use disorders. Accordingly, a possible addiction to food has been discussed for decades, and the debate has received increased scientific and public attention since the beginning of the twenty-first century. In 2009, the Yale Food Addiction Scale (YFAS) was developed in an attempt to provide a standardized self-report instrument for the assessment of food addiction based on the diagnostic criteria for substance dependence. Since then, the YFAS has been used in numerous studies and celebrates its fifth anniversary this year. This article presents an overview of the YFAS and its adaptations, which includes a detailed description of scoring instructions and a supplementary SPSS syntax. Furthermore, psychometric properties and correlates of the YFAS, as well as prevalence rates of food addiction diagnoses and symptoms in different populations, are reviewed. Finally, shortcomings of the scale and future directions for food addiction research and revisions of the YFAS are discussed.

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An MMPI analysis of similarities and differences in three classifications of eating disorders: Anorexia nervosa, bulimia, and morbid obesity

Scott

Baroffio

1986

J. Clin. Psychol.

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While considerable clinical literature exists on the personality characteristics of the different classifications of eating disorders, standardized psychometric measures have not often been utilized to compare the various disorders with each other. The present investigation employed the MMPI to study the similarities and differences of the mean profiles of 30 hospitalized anorexic patients, 30 hospitalized bulimic patients, 30 morbidly obese outpatients, and 30 subjects in a matched control group. The results indicated that there was no significant difference in the overall profiles of the three experimental groups, but that all differed from the control group. Individual scale analysis demonstrated that the three experimental groups shared a core disturbance demonstrated by common elevations on scales 1 (Hs), 2 (D), and 4 (Pd). Differences on scales 6 (Pa), 7 (Pt), 8 (Sc), and 0 (Si) were discussed in terms of the specific manifestations of the core disturbance symptomatology.

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Similarities and differences on the MMPI between women with bulimia and women with alcohol or drug abuse problems

Cited by 108 publications

References 8 publications

Cognitive orientation in substance use disorders and chronic cigarette smoking

Cognitive orientation in substance use disorders and chronic cigarette smoking

Five years of the Yale Food Addiction Scale: Taking stock and moving forward

An MMPI analysis of similarities and differences in three classifications of eating disorders: Anorexia nervosa, bulimia, and morbid obesity

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