Table 3.
Personality, temperament, and premorbid traits of patients with short, medium, and long duration of anorexia nervosa (AN).
| Total sample inpatients with AN n = 169 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| <3 years | ≥3 and <7 years | ≥7 years | Test statistics | |||
| Short duration (SD-AN) n = 76 | Medium duration (MD-AN) n = 47 | Long duration (LD-AN) n = 46 | ||||
| Mean (SD) | Mean (SD) | Mean (SD) | F | p | Sheffè post hoc | |
| TEMPS-A | ||||||
| Depressive | 12.2 (4.1) | 12.7 (4.1) | 13.2 (3.8) | 0.74 | 0.480 | – |
| Cyclothymic | 9.9 (4.8) | 9.6 (4.7) | 9.9 (5.1) | 0.01 | 0.916 | – |
| Hyperthymic | 6.9 (3.8) | 6.1 (3.8) | 7.8 (4.7) | 1.7 | 0.187 | – |
| Irritable | 6.7 (3.9) | 7 (3.6) | 7.2 (4.3) | 0.20 | 0.816 | – |
| Anxious | 12.8 (5.4) | 13.8 (5.7) | 13.8 (5.1) | 0.55 | 0.577 | – |
| FMPS | 111.4 (25.8) | 106.6 (27.3) | 110 (26.3) | 0.42 | 0.658 | – |
| CHIRP | ||||||
| Global perfectionism | 2.8 (2.2) | 2.8 (2.2) | 3 (1.9) | 0.08 | 0.919 | – |
| Inflexibility | 3.2 (1.4) | 3.2 (1.4) | 3.1 (1.1) | 0.13 | 0.877 | – |
| Need for order and symmetry | 1.3 (1.5) | 1.2 (1.3) | 1.5 (1.5) | 0.38 | 0.684 | – |
| PCT-Q | ||||||
| Harm avoidance | 4.3 (2.9) | 4.1 (2.7) | 3.8 (3.2) | 0.42 | 0.657 | – |
| Alexithymia | 2.5 (2.3) | 2.9 (2.6) | 2.3 (2.3) | 0.78 | 0.460 | – |
| Interoceptive awareness | 2.7 (2.5) | 2.6 (2.4) | 2.5 (2.7) | 0.14 | 0.866 | – |
| Social phobia | 1.8 (1.8) | 2.3 (1.9) | 1.9 (1.9) | 1.11 | 0.330 | – |
| Food obsessions | 0.8 (1.2) | 1 (1.3) | 1.3 (1.6) | 1.85 | 0.159 | – |
Abbreviations: CHIRP, Childhood Retrospective Perfectionism Questionnaire; FMPS, Frost Multidimensional Perfectionism Scale; PCT-Q, Premorbid Childhood Traits Questionnaire; TEMPS-A, Temperament Evaluation of Memphis, Pisa, Paris, and San Diego Autoquestionnaire.