Morosin A, Riva G
Applied Technology for Psychology Laboratory, Centro Auxologico Italiano, Intra (VB).
Psychol Rep. 1997 Apr;80(2):387-94. doi: 10.2466/pr0.1997.80.2.387.
The purpose was to examine the rate of alexithymia as measured by the Toronto Alexithymia Scale in a clinical sample of obese women without Binge Eating Disorder. Subjects included 165 inpatients in an eating disorder unit and 135 normal-weight individuals (comparison group). The obese subjects also completed a series of tests including the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory, the Anxiety Scale Questionnaire, and the Eating Attitude Test. Analysis showed that the subgroups of obese persons differ in important ways and cannot necessarily be treated, studied, or understood through a single paradigm. Alexithymic behaviour, too, was not characteristic of obesity, but it was present only in the subgroup of subjects with psychopathological characteristics.
目的是通过多伦多述情障碍量表来检测无暴饮暴食障碍的肥胖女性临床样本中的述情障碍发生率。受试者包括165名饮食失调科住院患者和135名正常体重个体（对照组）。肥胖受试者还完成了一系列测试，包括明尼苏达多项人格调查表、焦虑量表问卷和饮食态度测试。分析表明，肥胖者的亚组在重要方面存在差异，不一定能通过单一范式进行治疗、研究或理解。述情障碍行为也不是肥胖的特征，仅存在于具有精神病理学特征的受试者亚组中。
