La construcción del Apego, la cohesión Diádica y la Comunicación en pacientes con Trastornos de la Conducta Alimentaria

Abstract

This paper presents a study comparing three samples of participants (30 patients with a restrictive eating disorder; 30 with a compulsive eating disorder; and 30 without eating disorders) in terms of their construction of attachment, dyadic cohesion, and communication. The three constructs were assessed by means of a form of Personal Construct Grid specifically designed to accommodate our research aims. None of the two eating disordered groups differed from the non-disordered eating group in their scoring of attachment. Howevcer, the mean scores of the compulsive eating disorder group were significantly lower than the ones of the non-eating disorder group in dyadic cohesion adn communication, but not in attachment. The paper duscusses these results in terms of likely differential patterns of conflict denial and avoidance between both subtypes of eating disorder.