Eating Characteristics and Temperament

Temperament and Eating Characteristics: General Measures and Interrelationships provides a comprehensive description of the various ways people eat, and how these individual eating styles relate to personality. Dr. Mehrabian introduces a new approach to the study of eating and presents innovative measures of eating and personal temperament. Based on large samples from normal populations, the research calls attention to the complex interrelationship between aspects of the personality and eating. General measures of temperament provide a basis for comparing the results of this important effort with past research on arousal, temperament, and emotions.

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1. A Three-Dimensional System for the Measurement of Temperament.- 2. Trait Arousability-An Alternative to Trait Arousal.- 3. Personality Measures Analyzed in Terms of the Temperament Framework.- 4. Relationships Among Obesity, Anorexia, and Personality Measures in the Literature.- 5. Preliminary Measures of Obesity and Anorexia: Temperament Correlates.- 6. Revised and Improved Measures of Eating-Related Characteristics: Temperament Correlates.- 7. Supplementary Measures of Eating-Related Characteristics: Temperament Correlates.- 8. The Influence of Emotion States on Appetite and Eating.- 9. Combined Influences of Emotion States and Individual Characteristics on Appetite and Eating.- A. Eating-Related Characteristics Questionnaire (ECQ): Scales, Scoring, and Norms.- B. Supplementary Eating-Related Characteristics Questionnaire (SECQ).- References.- Index of Names.