Are personality disturbances in anorexia nervosa related to emotion processing or eating disorder symptomatology?

Table 1 Participant information

	AN		HC
	M	SD	M	SD	p
Age	23.07	6.88	22.67	3.19	0.798
Premorbid IQ	104.67	8.19	105.60	7.00	0.670
BMI	16.52	1.14	22.40	3.59	0.001
Illness duration	6.67	7.66	–	–	–
Age of illness onset	16.04	3.50	–	–	–
EDE-Q restraint	3.93	1.42	0.43	0.40	0.001
EDE-Q eating concern	3.78	1.24	0.20	0.20	0.001
EDE-Q shape concern	5.01	0.90	0.99	0.59	0.001
EDE-Q weight concern	4.50	1.41	0.42	0.47	0.001
EDE-Q global score	4.30	1.12	0.60	0.43	0.001
DASS depression	25.08	12.41	1.08	1.29	0.001
DASS anxiety	16.00	9.48	1.88	2.13	0.001
DASS stress	24.92	10.23	3.78	2.78	0.001
TAS-20 difficulty identifying feelings	22.71	5.76	10.65	3.70	0.001
TAS-20 difficulty describing feelings	18.43	2.74	10.64	4.05	0.001
TAS-20 externally oriented thinking	20.42	3.32	16.78	4.65	0.003
TAS-20 score	61.17	8.86	38.88	11.79	0.001

AN Anorexia Nervosa, HC healthy controls, Premorbid IQ standardised Wechsler Test of Adult Reading Score, BMI body mass index, EDE-Q Eating Disorders Examination Questionnaire, DASS Depression, Anxiety, Stress Scale, TAS-20 Toronto Alexithymia Scale, Age age of illness onset and duration illness are reported in years

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