Mediation models of anxiety and depression between temperament and drive for thinness and body dissatisfaction in anorexia nervosa.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Anorexia nervosa (AN) is a life-threatening condition in which temperament, anxiety, depression, and core AN body-related psychopathology (drive for thinness, DT, and body dissatisfaction, BD) are intertwined. This relationship has not been to date disentangled; therefore, we performed a multiple mediation analysis aiming to quantify the effect of each component.

Methods

An innovative multiple mediation statistical method has been applied to data from 184 inpatients with AN completing: Temperament Evaluation of Memphis, Pisa, Paris, and San Diego Autoquestionnaire, Eating Disorders Inventory-2, State-Trait Anxiety Inventory, and Beck Depression Inventory.

Results

All affective temperaments but the hyperthymic one were involved in the relationship with DT and B

SUBMITTER: Jerolon A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9556361 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature