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Clinical, Psychological, and Personality Correlates of Asceticism in Anorexia Nervosa: From Saint Anorexia to Pathologic Perfectionism

Secondo Fassino

University of Turin

Andrea Pierò

University of Turin

Carla Gramaglia

University of Turin

Giovanni Abbate Daga

University of Turin

Marina Gandione

University of Turin

Giovanni Giacomo Rovera

University of Turin

Goffredo Bartocci

World Psychiatric Association

This study investigated the personality and clinical correlates of asceticism in 154 anorectic patients. Multiple linear regression models showed that asceticism was related to angry temperament, high control over anger, perfectionism, maturity fears, and number of vomiting episodes per week. These results suggest that the self-discipline and hypercontrol of anorectic patients are related to a temperament prone to angry feelings in subjects with a fear of becoming adult and with a trait of pathologic perfectionism.

Key Words: anger • anorexia nervosa • asceticism • maturity fear • perfectionism

Transcultural Psychiatry, Vol. 43, No. 4, 600-614 (2006)
DOI: 10.1177/1363461506070785
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