Personalidade e Coping em Pacientes Diagnosticados com Transtornos Alimentares e Obesidade

Abstract

This study presents a search with patients diagnosed with eating disorders and obesity in the general population, aiming to evaluate the occurrence of correlations between personality and coping in the light of these diseases. Data were collected in the Clínica Escola Vida, in Universidade Católica de Goiás in Goiânia, with a sample of patients with eating disorders (n = 30) and obesity (n = 30) and the general population (n = 49). To achieve the study were applied three tests: the Inventory Reduction of Big Five (IBF-R), to assess the occurrence of the factors extroversion and neuroticismo, based on the Big Five Factors of personality, the Coping Response Inventory Adult Form (CRI - A) to verify the coping strategies of the sample used to face the problem, and Eating Attitudes Test (EAT 26) to know the eating behaviors of the participants. ANOVA test was performed to anlyze the means of the factors of personality, coping strategies, and eating attitudes, and Pearson correlation was applied to evaluate the correlations among the variables using Windows SPSS version 13.0. It was concluded that: the patients with eating disorders and obesity had more the traits neuroticismo and strategy emotional discharge, considered nonadaptive, for the general population sample, but found no statistically significant differences.