PERSONALITY-CORRELATES OF EATING ATTITUDES IN A NONCLINICAL SAMPLE

Few studies have investigated the relationship between eating history, attitudes and/or behaviors, and personality in nonclinical populations. This is a report of a serendipitous finding with 122 female undergraduates and a partial replication of that study with 40 older college females. Multiple regression analyses were carried out with the Restraint Scale, Eating Attitudes Test, and self‐report of weight history used as predictors of personality. The Jackson Personality Research Form scales were found to have significant relationships, modest in size but large in number of scales affected, with eating history and/or lifestyle. This suggests an overlooked connection between eating behaviors and personality in normal as well as clinically impaired females. Copyright © 1990 Wiley Periodicals, Inc., A Wiley Company