RESUMEN
Eating disorders (ED) and affective disorders (AD) in adolescent population and several investigations have pointed out that specific family dynamics play a major role in the onset, course, and maintenance of both disorders. The aim of this study was to extend the literature of this topic by exploring differences between parents' personality traits, coping strategies, and expressed emotion comparing groups of adolescents with different mental conditions (anorexia nervosa vs. affective disorder vs. control group) with a case-control study design. A total of 50 mothers and 50 fathers of 50 girls with anorexia nervosa (AN), 40 mothers and 40 fathers of 40 girls with affective disorder (AD), and 50 mothers and 50 fathers of 50 girls with no pathology that conformed the control group (CG) were measured with the Temperament and Character Inventory (TCI), the COPE Inventory, the Family Questionnaire (FQ), and psychopathology variables, anxiety, and depression. Both parents of girls with AN showed a significant difference in personality, coping strategies, and expressed emotion compared to both parents in the CG, while they presented more similarities to parents of girls in the AD group. Identifying personality traits, expressed emotion, coping strategies, and psychopathology of parents and their daughters will allow improvements in the interventions with the adolescents, parents, and families.
RESUMEN
Esta investigacion se diseno para entender mejor la fisiologia del desarrollo puberal en el varon y obtener patrones de referencia normales. Se estudiaron 44 varones sanos con edades de 8 a 19 anos y desarrollo sexual entre los estadios I y V de Tanner.Se determinaron en el suero las concentraciones de LH, FSH, prolactina, testosterona (T) y dihidrotestosterona (DHT), estradiol (E2) y estrona (E1). Las concentraciones de FSH aumentaron a partir del estadio I, estabilizandose a partir del IV, mientras que las de LH aumentaron a partir de estadio III. Las hormonas gonadales (T, DHT, E1 y E2) aumentaron progresivamente a partir del estadio I hasta el V.Se observo un patron similar en la prolactina, con una disminucion durante el estadio V. La DHT predomino en la relacion T: DHT en el estadio I, mientras que en el estadio V la T fue la predominante. Se atribuyen a la capacidad de la FSH para aumentar las concentraciones de compuestos 5 alfa reducidos, los cambios observados en la relacion T:DHT