Browsing by Subject "eating disorder"

Anorexia nervosa and other eating disorders are linked with certain personality and behavior traits: for example, people with eating disorders are more perfectionistic and neurotic as well as less extroverted than healthy people. The purpose of this paper is to examine whether traits associated with anorexia nervosa persist after clinical recovery. This paper covers ten studies in which people recovered from eating disorders are compared to people unaffected with eating disorders. It seems that there is great variety in the stability of different traits after the recovery from the eating disorder. Perfectionism might be stable feature even after the recovery.