| Abstract [eng] |
In literature it is widely agreed that parental-child relations are especially important for development of child’s personality and for psychological health of a child. Parental-child bonding is also correlated with eating disorders. The correlations between parental care and control and various personality features of a child are checked in different researches. But we failed to find a study, where the aforementioned correlations had been tested in the same sample. Furthermore in clinical practice it is noticed that patients with eating disorders are tend to feel hostility to themselves as far as are prone to self-hatred. However there are few studies where such negative emotions to self is analyzed. And we failed to find a research where this issue had been analyzed quantitatively. So the aim of this study is to assess the correlations between conceived parental care and control, eating disorders and specific personality features: self-esteem, perfectionism and negative emotional attitude to self. There were two groups of respondents in this study. One of them consisted of women with eating disorders (N=39) and the other – of controls (N=30). The methods used in this study were: the strength of the symptoms of eating disorders was measured with shortened form of Eating Attitudes Test (EAT-26), the level of conceived parental care and control was assessed with Parental Bonding Instrument (PBI), self-esteem was tested with M. Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale (RSES), the level of perfectionism – with Multidimensional Perfectionism Scale (MPS-F) and negative emotional attitude to self – with Negative Emotional Attitude to Self Scale (NENS). The results showed that women with eating disorders conceived there mothers as less caring and more controlling and there fathers – as more controlling. Women with eating disorders tended to be of lower self-esteem, more prone to perfectionism and had stronger negative emotional attitude to selves. Stronger symptoms of eating disorders were correlated to lower conceived maternal care, lower self esteem, stronger perfectionism and stronger negative emotional attitude to self. Conceived parental care and control can be related to the strength of eating disorders symptomatology not directly, but through such mediating factors as low self-esteem, strong perfectionism and strong negative emotional attitude to self, because all of these personality features were correlated to lower conceived parental care and stronger conceived parental control. Conceived parental care and control, self-esteem, perfectionism and the level of negative emotional attitude to self altogether prognosed the possibility to get an eating disorder. |
