Maggie L Walker Governor's School for Government and International Studies, Richmond, VA, USA.
Eat Weight Disord. 2010 Sep;15(3):e186-9. doi: 10.1007/BF03325297.
We assessed the relation between season of birth and eating disorder symptoms and personality characteristics in a sample of 880 women with eating disorders and 580 controls from two Price Foundation Studies. Eating disorder symptoms were assessed using the Structured Interview of Anorexic and Bulimic Disorders and the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV. Personality traits were assessed using the Temperament and Character Inventory and the Frost Multidimensional Perfectionism Scale. Date of birth was obtained from a sociodemographic questionnaire. No significant differences were observed 1) in season of birth across eating disorder subtypes and controls; nor 2) for any clinical or personality variables and season of birth. We found no evidence of season of birth variation in eating disorders symptoms or personality traits. Contributing to previous conflicting findings, the present results do not support a season of birth hypothesis for eating disorders.
我们评估了季节出生与饮食障碍症状和人格特征之间的关系，研究对象为来自两个 Price 基金会研究的 880 名饮食障碍女性患者和 580 名对照。使用饮食障碍诊断结构化访谈和 DSM-IV 结构化临床访谈评估饮食障碍症状。使用气质与性格问卷和 Frost 多维完美主义量表评估人格特征。出生日期从社会人口学问卷中获得。1）在饮食障碍亚型和对照组之间，季节出生没有明显差异；也 2）在任何临床或人格变量与季节出生之间，均无明显差异。我们没有发现季节出生与饮食障碍症状或人格特征有关。与之前相互矛盾的研究结果不同，本研究结果不支持饮食障碍的季节出生假说。
