PhD Scientific Days 2017

Oral Presentations: Mental Health

Parental and Adult Attachment and Eating Symptomology in Eating Disorder Patients and Sine Morbo Individuals

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Szalai, Tamás Dömötör

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Semmelweis University Institute of Behavioural Sciences

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szalai.domotor@gmail.com

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Parental and Adult Attachment and Eating Symptomology in Eating Disorder Patients and Sine Morbo Individuals

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Tamás Dömötör Szalai1
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1 Semmelweis University, Institute of Behavioural Sciences, Budapest

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Oral Presentations: Mental Health

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Doctoral School: Mental Health Sciences
Program name: MENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES
Supervisor: Ferenc Túry
E-mail address: szalai.domotor@gmail.com
Oral presentation

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Introduction
Attachment can contribute to eating disorder symptomology through various paths, including emotion regulation and body satisfaction. However, the relationship between parental and adult attachment features and complex eating symptomology have been barely investigated on Central and Eastern European comparative samples.
Aims
The aim of this study was to test the relationship between parental and adult attachment characteristics and eating symptomology in eating disorder patients and sine morbo individuals.
Method
This cross-sectional, questionnaire-based online survey assessed the associations between parental and adult attachment qualities with the eating behavior severity, tendencies for emotional eating, and the level of depression in 67 female eating disorder patients, compared to 67 female sine morbo individuals.
Results
Eating disorder patients less frequently had secure attachment, and were more often fearful or preoccupied than sine morbo individuals. In sine morbo individuals lower adult attachment security, but in eating disorder patients, lower parental care was related to symptom severity. In sine morbo individuals, higher preoccupation, but in eating disorder patients, higher fearfulness and lower care was related to emotional eating. Lower attachment security (OR = 0.54), younger age (OR = 0.93) and higher depression (OR = 1.04) explained 36.6% of the variance of diagnosed eating disorders.
Conclusions
A complex interplay was highlighted between dysfunctional attachment dimensions and eating symptomology in both groups, but with different patterns. While adult attachment security can be rather important for sine morbo individuals, in eating disorder patients degree of parental care can be influential regarding symptom severity. Lower attachment security was a predictor of eating disorders, which suggests the protective value enhancing attachment security against eating disorder symptoms. However, attachment-based preventions are required.

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Tamás Dömötör Szalai1
Edit Czeglédi1
1 Semmelweis University, Institute of Behavioural Sciences, Budapest