Personality traits associated with eating disorders and obesity in young Argentineans.

Purpose: Few studies have been conducted on Latin American population to explore how facets of personality, eating disorders, and obesity are related. The main purpose of this study was to explore the personality traits among patients diagnosed with anorexia nervosa (n = 23), bulimia nervosa (n = 32), and obesity (n = 16), in comparison to control group (n = 82).

Methods: A total of 153 individuals participated in the study, 125 were female (81.