TEMPERAMENT AS A PSYCHOLOGICAL AND PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGICAL DETERMINANT OF EATING BEHAVIOR

Abstract

In the article, temperament is considered as a psychological and psychophysiological determinant of eating disorders. The results of the relationship between the temperament type and eating behavior in the adult population (150 people) are presented according to gender and age characteristics. Only 12 % of respondents have a rational type of eating behavior. The sample was 33.3 % of respondents with melonchal temperament, 28.7 % – phlegmatic, 20 % sanguine and 18 % choleric, respectively. It is established that women-melancholiacs are more likely to develop an emotiogenic type of eating disorders, and men-melancholiacs are of a restrictive type. Emotiogenic type of eating behavior occurs in representatives of all types of temperament, but in different periods of ontogenesis: sanguine and choleric patients under 29 years old; melancholics at the age of 30 and older; phlegmaticians since 50 years of age, respectively. The external type of eating behavior is most characteristic for choleric persons under the age of 29. The results showed that temperament is indeed a factor in eating disorders and depends on age and gender characteristics.