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How Dissociation, Temperament and Character Influence at the Eating Disorders

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 March 2020

V. Muñoz Martínez
Affiliation:
Ciudad Real University Hospital, Psychiatry, Ciudad Real, Spain
T. Rodriguez Cano
Affiliation:
Ciudad Real University Hospital, Psychiatry, Ciudad Real, Spain
L. Beato Fernández
Affiliation:
Ciudad Real University Hospital, Psychiatry, Ciudad Real, Spain
G.A. Jimenez Londoño
Affiliation:
Ciudad Real University Hospital, Psychiatry, Ciudad Real, Spain
L. Asensio
Affiliation:
Ciudad Real University Hospital, Psychiatry, Ciudad Real, Spain
L. Nuevo Fernandez
Affiliation:
Ciudad Real University Hospital, Psychiatry, Ciudad Real, Spain
L. Mella
Affiliation:
Ciudad Real University Hospital, Psychiatry, Ciudad Real, Spain

Abstract

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Objectives

Dissociation has been related to emotional dysregulation and eating psychopathology. Dissociation may interfere with the learning process, affecting at the therapy negatively. The aim of the study is to analyse if at the eating disorders (ED), dissociation is linked to temperamental traits or also to character traits, which are susceptible to be modulated during the therapeutic process.

Methods

We studied 119 females that started an outpatient program for their ED. We used the Dissociative Experience Scale (DES), Temperament and Character Inventory (TCI), Eating Attitudes Test (EAT-40), and the State Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI). We used multiple regression analysis.

Results

Dissociation was associated with high scores on the EAT-40, even controlling the effect of anxiety traits, which also was related to dissociation. The temperament dimension “searching for novelty”, has been related in an opposite way to the DES. Also, the “dimension of transcendence “character and “self determination” influenced on the DES.

Conclusions

This study confirms the importance of improving Self Determination levels at ED therapy, which influence on a lot of prognostic aspects, such as protecting from dissociation, which is related to anxiety and alimentary psychopathology and can interfere with the therapeutic progress.

Disclosure of interest

The authors have not supplied their declaration of competing interest.

Type
e-Poster Walk: Sexual medicine and mental health/sleep disorders and stress/eating disorders
Copyright
Copyright © European Psychiatric Association 2017
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