A controlled study of trait narcissism in anorexia and bulimia nervosa

International Journal of Eating Disorders

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 173-178

  Steiger, Howard ^a,b   Jabalpurwala, Sheila ^b   Champagne, Josée ^b   Stotland, Stephen ^b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b DOUGLAS MENTAL HEALTH UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Eating disorders; Narcissism; Self report scales

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFFECTIVE NEUROSIS; ANOREXIA NERVOSA; ARTICLE; BULIMIA; COMPULSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NARCISSISM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELF REPORT; SELF STIMULATION;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AFFECT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANOREXIA NERVOSA; BULIMIA; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMPULSIVE BEHAVIOR; NARCISSISM; PERSONALITY TESTS; TEMPERAMENT;

EID: 0030855349     PISSN: 02763478     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-108X(199709)22:2<173::AID-EAT9>3.0.CO;2-C     Document Type: Article

References (18)

1. American Psychiatric Association. (1994). Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (4th ed.). Washington, DC: Author.
2. Beumont, P., Al-Alami, M., & Touyz, S. (1988). Relevance of a standard measurement of undernutrition to the diagnosis of anorexia nervosa: Use of Quetelet's body mass index. International Journal of Eating Disorders, 7, 399-405.
3. Garner, D. M., Olmsted, M. P., Bohr, Y., & Garfinkel, P. E. (1982). The Eating Attitudes Test: Psychometric features and clinical correlates. Psychological Medicine, 12, 871-878.
4. Humphrey, L. L. (1991). Object relations and the family system: An integrative approach to understanding and treating eating disorders. In C. Johnson (Ed.), Psychodynamic treatment of anorexia nervosa and bulimia. New York: Guilford Press, pp. 321-353.
5. Johnson, C. (1991). Treatment of eating-disordered patients with borderline and false-self/narcissistic disorders. In C. Johnson (Ed.), Psychodynamic treatment of anorexia nervosa and bulimia. New York: Guilford Press. pp. 165-193.
6. Johnson, C., & Connors, M. (1987). The etiology and treatment of bulimia nervosa. New York: Basic Books.
7. Johnson, C., & Wonderlich, S. (1992). Personality characteristics as a risk factor in the development of eating disorders. In J. H. Crowther, D. L. Tennenbaum, S. E., Hobfell, & M. A. P. Stephens, (Eds.), The etiology of bulimia nervosa: The individual and family context. Washington: Hemisphere Publishing, pp. 179-196.
8. Leichner, P., Steiger, H., Puentes-Neuman, G., Perreault, M., & Gottheil, N. (1994). Validation d'une échelle d'attitudes alimentaires auprès d'une population quebecoise francophone. (Validation of an eating-attitudes scale in a Quebec, francophone population). Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, 39, 49-54.
9. Livesley, W. J., Jackson, D. N., & Schroeder, M. L. (1989). A study of the factorial structure of personality pathology. Journal of Personality Disorders, 3, 292-306.
10. Livesley, W. J., Jackson, D. N., & Schroeder, M. L. (1992). Factorial structure of traits delineating personality disorders in clinical and general population samples. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 101, 432-440.
11. Plakun, E. M. (1990). Empirical overview of narcissistic personality disorder. In E. M. Plakun (Ed.), New perspectives on narcissism (pp. 101-150). Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Press.
12. Ronningstam, E., & Gunderson, J. (1989). Descriptive studies on narcissistic personality disorder. Psychiatric Clinics of North America, 12, 585-601.
13. Sohlberg, S., & Strober, M. (1994). Personality in anorexia nervosa: An update and a theoretical integration. Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, 89 (Suppl. 378), 1-15.
14. Sours, J. A. (1980). Starving to death in a sea of objects. New York: Aronson.
15. Steiger, H., Goldstein, C., Mongrain, M., & Van der Feen, J. (1990). Description of eating-disordered, psychiatric and normal women on cognitive and psychodynamic measures. International Journal of Eating Disorders, 9, 129-140.
16. Strober, M. (1991). Disorders of the self in anorexia nervosa: An organismic-developmental paradigm. In C. Johnson (Ed.), Psychodynamic treatment for eating disorders. New York: Guilford Press, pp. 354-373.
17. Vitousek, K., & Manke, F. (1994). Personality variables and disorders in anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 103, 137-147.
18. Weisberg, L., Norman, D., & Herzog, D. (1987). Personality functioning in normal weight bulimia. International Journal of Eating Disorders, 6, 615-631.