The current study investigates the similarities and differences between anorexic restricters, anorexic bulimics, female obsessives, agoraphobics, social phobics, and specific phobics. Measures of psychopathology were self-ratings of adjustment, the IPAT, FSS, MPI, and LOI. Results indicated that persons suffering from anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa were more similar to obsessives than to phobics with respect to obsessional personality traits and neuroticism. Additional research is needed in the examination of the central preoccupation in order to understand the differentiation of the various disorders and to what extent anorexia nervosa is a nosological entity.
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