大学生における摂食障害傾向と自閉症傾向との関連性について : 対人コミュニケーションの視点から

In recent years, clinical articles on the association of eating disorders and pervasive developmental disorders are often reported. The purpose of this study was to provide evidence relationship eating disorders to autism. Participants included 371 male and 278 female students. The methods were used self-administered questionnaires in Eating Disorder Inventory Japanese Version (EDI-J), the distortion level of body image, Autism Spectrum Quotient Japanese version (AQ-J). The students responded to three scales. The results were obtained that the scores were significantly higher females' than males' in body image distortion and EDI-J, and AQ-J was significantly higher in males than in females. The correlations between distortions of body image and EDI-J, and between AQ-J and EDI-J were significant. In other words, the higher tendency eating disorders were the higher tendency autism likely, the higher the tendency of eating disorders were larger distortions of body image. The discussion has been made that the relevance of the control eating and the difficulties of interpersonal communication about these results.