Department of Psychology, Medical University of Lublin, Lublin, Poland.
Centre for Postgraduate Medical Education, Warsaw, Poland.
Nutrition. 2022 Nov-Dec;103-104:111795. doi: 10.1016/j.nut.2022.111795. Epub 2022 Jul 18.
Studies on the psychological aspects of orthorexia nervosa are scarce. What has been studied to date is the correlation between orthorexia nervosa and self-esteem, perfectionism, and personality. The aim of this study is to verify whether patients suffering from orthorexia or those who have a tendency for orthorexia differ in terms of achievement motivation from a healthy control group.
The study was conducted in the group of 252 medical students. The study relied on the ORTO-15 questionnaire, Eating Attitudes Test-26, and Inventory of Achievement Motivation (Leistungsmotivationsinventar).
Patients with a tendency for orthorexia showed higher results in terms of preference of challenging tasks, belief in success, motivation to learn, goal orientation, compensatory effort, care for prestige, achievement satisfaction, and general achievement motivation, as well as self-confidence and ambition.
Patients who suffer from orthorexia differ from those in the control group in terms of achievement motivation. In some respect, their results are parallel to those obtained from girls with anorexia readiness syndrome, which can lead to the conclusion that both orthorexia and anorexia belong to the spectrum of eating disorders.
关于厌食强迫症心理方面的研究还很少。迄今为止，所研究的内容是厌食强迫症与自尊、完美主义和人格之间的相关性。本研究的目的是验证患有厌食强迫症或有厌食强迫症倾向的患者在成就动机方面是否与健康对照组存在差异。
该研究在 252 名医学生群体中进行。该研究依赖于 ORTO-15 问卷、饮食态度测试-26 和成就动机量表（Leistungsmotivationsinventar）。
有厌食强迫症倾向的患者在喜欢挑战性任务、相信成功、学习动机、目标导向、补偿努力、对名誉的关注、成就满意度和一般成就动机以及自信和野心方面表现出更高的分数。
患有厌食强迫症的患者在成就动机方面与对照组存在差异。在某些方面，他们的结果与厌食预备综合征女孩的结果相似，这可以得出结论，厌食强迫症和厌食症都属于饮食失调症的范畴。
