ArticleJournal of consulting and clinical psychology2011
The clinical utility of personality subtypes in patients with anorexia nervosa.
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- Using the alternative model of personality disorders for DSM-5 traits to identify personality types, and the relationship with disordered eating, depression, anxiety and stress.Journal of eating disorders · 2025Article
- The current clinical approach to feeding and eating disorders aimed to increase personalization of management.World psychiatry : official journal of the World Psychiatric Association (WPA) · 2025Article
- Do empirically-derived personality subtypes relate to cognitive inflexibility in anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa?Journal of eating disorders · 2024Article
- Clinical heterogeneity of feeding and eating disorders: using personality psychopathology to differentiate "simplex" and "complex" phenotypes.BMC psychiatry · 2024Article
- Multivariate patterns linking brain microstructure to temperament and behavior in adolescent eating disorders.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2024Article
- Recovery Trajectories in Adolescent Girls with Anorexia Nervosa.Journal of clinical medicine · 2024Article
- Identifying overcontrol and undercontrol personality types among young people using the five factor model, and the relationship with disordered eating behaviour, anxiety and depression.Journal of eating disorders · 2024Article
- Impulsivity and reward and punishment sensitivity among patients admitted to a specialized inpatient eating disorder treatment program.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Article
- Reading tea leaves or tracking true constructs? An assessment of personality-based latent profiles in eating disorders.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Article
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Abstract
objectiveElucidation of clinically relevant subtypes has been proposed as a means of advancing treatment research, but classifying anorexia nervosa (AN) patients into restricting and binge-eating/purging types has demonstrated limited predictive validity. This study aimed to evaluate whether an approach to classifying eating disorder patients on the basis of comorbid personality psychopathology has utility in predicting treatment response and readmission in patients with AN.
methodData were collected from 154 AN patients (M [SD] age = 25.6[9.4] years; 95.5% female; 96.8% Caucasian) at admission, discharge, and 3 months postdischarge from intensive treatment. Latent profile analysis of personality traits assessed at admission was performed to classify participants into personality subtypes, which were then used to predict outcomes at discharge and risk of readmission.
resultsThe best fitting model identified 3 personality subtypes (undercontrolled, overcontrolled, low psychopathology) that contributed significantly to multivariate models predicting study outcomes. Undercontrolled patients were more likely to have a poor outcome at discharge than overcontrolled (OR = 3.56, p = .01) and low psychopathology patients (OR = 11.23, p < .001). Undercontrolled patients also had a greater risk of discharge against medical advice (HR = 2.08, p = .02) and readmission than overcontrolled patients (HR = 3.76, p = .009). Binge-eating/purging versus restricting subtypes did not predict discharge against medical advice or readmission in the multivariate models.
conclusionsFindings support the clinical utility of personality subtypes in AN. Future work is needed to identify mechanisms that explain diminished treatment response in undercontrolled patients and to develop interventions for this high-risk group.
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