| Literature DB >> 21150253 |
N K Shuman1, I Krug, M Maxwell, A Poyastro Pinheiro, T Brewerton, L M Thornton, W H Berrettini, H Brandt, S Crawford, S Crow, M M Fichter, K A Halmi, C Johnson, A S Kaplan, P Keel, M Lavia, J Mitchell, A Rotondo, M Strober, D Blake Woodside, W H Kaye, C M Bulik.
Abstract
We assessed the relation between season of birth and eating disorder symptoms and personality characteristics in a sample of 880 women with eating disorders and 580 controls from two Price Foundation Studies. Eating disorder symptoms were assessed using the Structured Interview of Anorexic and Bulimic Disorders and the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV. Personality traits were assessed using the Temperament and Character Inventory and the Frost Multidimensional Perfectionism Scale. Date of birth was obtained from a sociodemographic questionnaire. No significant differences were observed 1) in season of birth across eating disorder subtypes and controls; nor 2) for any clinical or personality variables and season of birth. We found no evidence of season of birth variation in eating disorders symptoms or personality traits. Contributing to previous conflicting findings, the present results do not support a season of birth hypothesis for eating disorders.Entities:
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Year: 2010 PMID： 21150253 PMCID： PMC4683582 DOI： 10.1007/bf03325297
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Eat Weight Disord ISSN： 1124-4909 Impact factor: 4.652