EMOTIONAL AND PERSONALITY FEATURES AND CHARACTERISTICS OF INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS SYSTEM IN WOMEN WITH ORTHOREXIA NERVOSA

The purpose of the study was to examine the phenomenon of “nervous orthorexia” as a variant of restrictive eating behavior. A review of the literature on the problem showed both a lack of conceptual definition of the term, despite its active use, and a lack of information to distinguish orthorexia nervosa from eating disorders and normative variations in the eatingstyle. The results of an empirical study of the emotional and personality features and characteristics of interpersonal relations system in women with tendencies to orthorexia nervosa are presented. There have been hypotheses about higher rates of "negative affectivity" in women with orthorexia nervosa and specific characteristics in the sphere of interpersonal attachment. According to the results of the study, women with orthorexia nervosa show significantly higher indicators of anxiety and depression, hostility, perfectionism, as well as the predominance of unreliable attachment styles in comparison with women without specific restrictive attitudes towards the diet. The results obtained make it possible to confirm the assumption that orthorexia nervosa should be considered not as a conditionally normative variant of eating behavior, but as one of the forms of emotional and personalitywell-being disturbances.