Naslov
Anxiety and Defense Styles in Eating Disorders

Autori
Vidović, Vesna ; Henigsberg, Neven ; Jureša, Vesna

Izvornik
Collegium Antropologicum (0350-6134) 27 (2003), Supplement 1; 125-134

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Radovi u časopisima, izvorni znanstveni članak, znanstveni

Ključne riječi
eating disorders; anxiety; defense styles

Sažetak
The study investigates anxiety and defense styles in eating disoprder patients. Seventy eating disorder patients and fifty one female matched control subjects completed State and Trait Anxiety Inventory(STAI) and 88-items Defense Style Questionnaire (DSQ). ED patients were more anxious in actual situations and more anxiety prone in general. They relied on maladaptive and image distorting defense style. Bulimic anorexic (BAN) patients and bulimia nervosa (BN) patients differed in defense styles from restrictive anorexic (RAN)patients who displayed no signifficant difference in either state of anxiety or in defense styles when compared to healthy patients. Different levels of anxieta and ego defense maturity are present in ED patients. The almost normal ego functioning of RAN patients could be explained by pseudomaturity, tendency to control external and internal environment and the unconscious efforts to imitate normality to avoid conflicts.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Kliničke medicinske znanosti

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