Eating Disorders Seen from a Bionic Perspective: Developing a scale to measure the family culture.

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In the present study the author developed a hypothesis concerning theetiology of anorexia nervosa (AN). Based on Bion (1961)'s theory ongroups, especially the protomental system hypothesis, he postulated that thecause of AN has to be sought in two sources: family dynamics, and anindividual predisposition. That is, the author postulates that AN is the resultsof both 1) a rigid interaction between WG and baF, which leads to thefrustration of dependency needs with in the family, and 2) the anorectic'sunability to bear this frustration owing to her/his dependency valency. Thepurpose of the present study is 1) proposing a new hypothesis concerningthe etiology of the AN, and 2) developing a scale to measure the culture(WG and baF) of the anorectic family and test it reliability. The authordeveloped thus a 43 item-scale (AFACS). The reliability was first tested andconfirmed by the results of Crombach's alpha. Then afactor analysis withvarimax rotation was performed. It yielded 6 factors which could beinterpreted in terms of WG (Factors 3 and 6) and baF activity (Factors 1,2,4 and 5). This study constitutes a starting point of a wide research programwhich will use the thus developed scale to test the hypothesis proposed bythe author.
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