Familial and Individual Perspective-Taking Processes in Adolescent Females with Bulimic Symptomatology

Compared perspective-taking processes in adolescent females displaying signs of bulimia and their mothers (n=17) to control mother-daughter dyads (n=41). The bulimic adolescents and their mothers were less able to predict the responses of the other on personality instruments than were controls. Disc...

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Published in:The American journal of family therapy 1996-04, Vol.24 (1), p.75-82
Main Authors: Rupp, Gary L, Jurkovic, Gregory J
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adolescents
Bulimia
Daughters
Dyads
Eating Disorders
Eating Habits
Emotional Disturbances
Family (Sociological Unit)
Family Counseling
Family Problems
Family Relations
Females
Identification (Psychology)
Interpersonal Relationship
Mothers
Parent Child Relations
Parent Child Relationship
Personality Assessment
Personality Measures
Perspective Taking
Studies
Teenagers
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Summary:Compared perspective-taking processes in adolescent females displaying signs of bulimia and their mothers (n=17) to control mother-daughter dyads (n=41). The bulimic adolescents and their mothers were less able to predict the responses of the other on personality instruments than were controls. Discusses other findings and their theoretical and clinical significance. (KW)
ISSN:0192-6187
1521-0383
DOI:10.1080/01926189508251018