Weill Cornell Medical College, Department of Psychiatry, New York, NY, USA.
Eat Behav. 2013 Aug;14(3):299-308. doi: 10.1016/j.eatbeh.2013.05.007. Epub 2013 May 21.
Personality clusters in women with eating disorders predict important clinical variables (e.g., social functioning) better than eating disorder diagnoses. However, it is unknown whether these findings generalize to samples with subclinical pathology. Further, little is known about associations between personality clusters and family relationships. This study sought to address these limitations by replicating personality clusters in a college sample of women with disordered eating symptoms Based on reported symptoms, women were divided into a restricting, binging and purging, or control (i.e., symptom free) group. Participants completed measures of personality, social functioning, and family relationships. Cluster analyses suggested three personality groups (i.e., Adaptive, Rigid, Dysregulated) which corresponded to those identified previously in clinical samples. Personality clusters, and not disordered eating groups, significantly predicted social functioning, and these clusters were differentially associated with family conflict type. Meaningful personality clusters are present in subclinical populations and have clinical utility in predicting social functioning and family relationships.
人格聚类在患有饮食失调症的女性中可以更好地预测重要的临床变量（例如社交功能），而不是饮食失调症的诊断。然而，目前尚不清楚这些发现是否适用于有亚临床病理的样本。此外，关于人格聚类与家庭关系之间的关联知之甚少。本研究通过在患有饮食失调症状的大学生样本中复制人格聚类来解决这些局限性。根据报告的症状，将女性分为限制型、暴食和清除型或对照组（即无症状）。参与者完成了人格、社交功能和家庭关系的测量。聚类分析表明存在三种人格群体（即适应性、僵化性、失调性），与之前在临床样本中确定的人格群体相对应。人格聚类，而不是饮食失调症群体，显著预测了社交功能，并且这些聚类与家庭冲突类型存在差异相关。在亚临床人群中存在有意义的人格聚类，并且在预测社交功能和家庭关系方面具有临床实用性。
