Childhood Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Traits in Adult Women With Eating Disorders: Defining a Broader Eating Disorder Phenotype
Marija Brecelj Anderluh, M.D., Kate Tchanturia, Ph.D., Sophia Rabe-Hesketh, Ph.D., and Janet Treasure, Ph.D., F.R.C.P., F.R.C.Psych. View Author and Article Information Published online: February 01, 2003 | https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.160.2.242 Abstract OBJECTIVE: The authors retrospectively examined a spectrum of childhood traits that reflect obsessive-compulsive personality in adult women with eating disorders and assessed the predictive value of the traits for the development of eating disorders. METHOD: In a case-control design, 44 women with anorexia nervosa, 28 women with bulimia nervosa, and 28…