Assertiveness and direction of hostility have been studied in eating disorder patients with conflicting results: some studies did not show significant differences between anorexics and bulimics, while others found outward directed hostility in anorexic patients. Because of the interference of aggressiveness with therapeutic programs and of the influence of inward and outward hostility on psychopathological development, we studied hostility direction in anorexic and bulimic patients. We assessed 10 anorexic (age m:22; sd:6) and 10 bulimic (age m:28; sd:7) women by the wartegg projective method. Clinical groups were compared with a control group of 18 healthy subjects (age m:25; sd:6). ANOVA showed a significant difference between the control group and clinical groups on formal quality (p<0.05) of table V, and on affective quality (p<0.05), and formal quality (p<0.05) of table VI. Post Hoc analyses showed for table III (affective quality) a lower score of the bulimic group vs. the anorexic group (p<0.05) and the control group (p=0.07). For table V on formal quality, bulimic group had a lower score than the control group (p<0.01) and the bulimic group (p<0.05 and p=0.08). It seems that bulimic patients and few emotional and motivational resources, a lower level of future planning and a less adequate management of hostility control.
Hostility direction in eating disorders: a wartegg test study / S., Daini; Lai, Carlo; F., Maiorino; E., Quinti; M., Pertosa; M., Gaglione; S., DE RISIO. - In: WORLD PSYCHIATRY. - ISSN 1723-8617. - STAMPA. - 3 Supplement 1:(2004), pp. 294-294. (Intervento presentato al convegno International Conference of WPA Treatments in Psychiatry: an update tenutosi a Folrence; Italy).
Hostility direction in eating disorders: a wartegg test study
LAI, CARLO;
2004
Abstract
Assertiveness and direction of hostility have been studied in eating disorder patients with conflicting results: some studies did not show significant differences between anorexics and bulimics, while others found outward directed hostility in anorexic patients. Because of the interference of aggressiveness with therapeutic programs and of the influence of inward and outward hostility on psychopathological development, we studied hostility direction in anorexic and bulimic patients. We assessed 10 anorexic (age m:22; sd:6) and 10 bulimic (age m:28; sd:7) women by the wartegg projective method. Clinical groups were compared with a control group of 18 healthy subjects (age m:25; sd:6). ANOVA showed a significant difference between the control group and clinical groups on formal quality (p<0.05) of table V, and on affective quality (p<0.05), and formal quality (p<0.05) of table VI. Post Hoc analyses showed for table III (affective quality) a lower score of the bulimic group vs. the anorexic group (p<0.05) and the control group (p=0.07). For table V on formal quality, bulimic group had a lower score than the control group (p<0.01) and the bulimic group (p<0.05 and p=0.08). It seems that bulimic patients and few emotional and motivational resources, a lower level of future planning and a less adequate management of hostility control.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
