Eating Disorders and Major Depression: Role of Anger and Personality

Table 5

Temperament and Character Inventory (TCI).

	ED without MD	ED with MD	𝑡	𝑃
NS	20.70±9.75	19.53±6.34	1.450	0.148
HA	22.00±9.35	26.88±5.69	−6.329	0.001
RD	15.53±5.50	14.31±3.65	2.675	0.008
P	5.28±5.14	4.66±2.03	1.498	0.134
SD	23.08±8.30	15.38±6.29	10.983	0.001
C	30.75±7.34	27.10±7.50	5.630	0.001
ST	13.86±7.45	13.85±6.72	0.002	0.998

ED: Eating Disorder; MD: Major Depression; NS: novelty seeking; HA: harm avoidance; RD: reward dependence; P: persistence; SD: Self-Directedness; C: cooperativeness; ST: Self-transcendence.