Psychological Features of Women with Deviating Body Mass Index and Eating Disorders

They consider psychological features of women with a deviating body mass index and eating disorders: emotional, restrictive and external. They use psychodiagnostic and statistical methods of research. It is shown that the respondents with a deviating body mass index have different types of eating behavior and their mixed variants; their eating behavior is characterized by an excessive desire for leanness, binge eating, the dissatisfaction with one's own body, perfectionism and interoceptive incompetence. They determine the psychological features of women with eating disorders: a high level of neuroticism, the non-acceptance of the corporal self-image, the sensitivity to the assessments of others in relation to appearance, the prevalence of irrational catastrophization and self-esteem attitudes, low frustration tolerance; the severity of psychological defenses in the form of negation, regression, compensation, substitution, and reactive developments. They showed the effect of identified psychological special features of women with a deviating body mass index on their eating behavior.