Perfectionism and eating attitudes in portuguese students: A longitudinal study

Soares, M.J.; Macedo, A.; Bos, Sandra Carvalho; Marques, Mariana; Maia, B.; Pereira, A.T.; Gomes, Ana Allen; Valente, J.; Pato, Michele T.; Azevedo, Maria Helena Pinto de

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“…Regarding gender differences in this association with SOP, the present findings are similar with those found in our study in an adult population, in which SOP was associated with disordered eating behaviour, but only in females (Macedo et al, 2007). In our longitudinal study, also in adults (with a female sample), SOP was a significant predictor of the total variance of the diet concerns dimension of EAT-40, 1 and 2 years after baseline (Soares et al, 2009). One possible explanation for these findings is that different aspects of perfectionism may play different roles in females and males, in different developmental stages.…”

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Perfectionism and eating behaviour in Portuguese adolescents

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Pereira

Maia

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Euro Eating Disorders Rev

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“…The literature on this issue has been mainly conducted in girls samples, so we were interested in exploring these topic in a population of both genders, as we did in adult samples (Macedo, Soares, Azevedo, Pereira, Maia, & Pato, 2007;Soares, macedo, Bos, Marques, maia, 2009). …”

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Perfectionism and eating behaviour in Portuguese adolescents

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“…Both self-oriented and socially prescribed perfectionism have shown positive correlations with all three symptom groups, but socially prescribed perfectionism typically shows larger correlations than self-oriented perfectionism [10,13] except with dieting where some studies found self-oriented perfectionism to show larger correlations than socially 1 The model differentiates a third form of perfectionism, other-oriented perfectionism, which is unrelated to eating disorder symptoms [1] and so was disregarded in the present study.…”

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“…Overall the findings suggest that both forms of perfectionism are positively related to eating disorder symptoms [1,[7][8][9][10], but may show different relations with different groups of eating disorder symptoms [11].…”

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Perfectionism and eating disorder symptoms in female university students: the central role of perfectionistic self-presentation

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symptoms, but so far no study has examined whether perfectionistic self-presentation can explain these relations or whether the relations are the same for different eating disorder symptom groups. MethodsA sample of 393 female university students completed self-report measures of perfectionism (selforiented perfectionism, socially prescribed perfectionism), perfectionistic self-presentation (perfectionistic self-promotion, nondisplay of imperfection, nondisclosure of imperfection), and three eating disorder symptom groups (dieting, bulimia, oral control). In addition, students reported their weight and height so their body mass index (BMI) could be computed. ResultsResults of multiple regression analyses controlling for BMI indicated that socially prescribed perfectionism positively predicted all three symptom groups, whereas self-oriented perfectionism positively predicted dieting only. Moreover, perfectionistic self-presentation explained the positive relations that perfectionism showed with dieting and oral control, but not with bulimia.Further analyses indicated that all three aspects of perfectionistic self-presentation positively predicted dieting, whereas only nondisclosure of imperfection positively predicted bulimia and oral control. Overall, perfectionistic self-presentation explained 10.4-23.5% of variance in eating disorder symptoms, whereas perfectionism explained 7.9-12.1%. ConclusionsThe findings suggest that perfectionistic self-presentation explains why perfectionistic women show higher levels of eating disorder symptoms, particularly dieting. Thus perfectionistic selfpresentation appears to play a central role in the relations of perfectionism and disordered eating and may warrant closer attention in theory, research, and treatment of eating and weight disorders.

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“…Hewitt and Flett's (1991) multidimensional model differentiates self-oriented perfectionism and socially prescribed perfectionism with the former an indicator of perfectionistic strivings and the latter an indicator of perfectionistic concerns (Frost et al, 1993;Stoeber & Otto, 2006). Studies investigating self-oriented perfectionism, socially prescribed perfectionism, and disordered eating typically find socially prescribed perfectionism to show larger and more consistently positive correlations with eating disorder symptoms than self-oriented perfectionism (e.g., Peixoto-Plácido, Soares, Pereira, & Macedo, 2015;Soares et al, 2009;Welch, Miller, Ghaderi, & Vaillancourt, 2009). …”

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Physical appearance perfectionism explains variance in eating disorder symptoms above general perfectionism

Stoeber

Yang

2015

Personality and Individual Differences

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Document VersionPublisher pdf Stoeber, J., & Yang, H. (2015). Physical appearance perfectionism explains variance in eating disorder symptoms above general perfectionism. Personality and Individual Differences, 86,[303][304][305][306][307] Physical appearance perfectionism is a domain-specific form of perfectionism comprising two components: hope for perfection and worry about imperfection (Yang & Stoeber, 2012).Previous studies found that physical appearance perfectionism is related to eating disorder symptoms, particularly the worry about imperfection component, but did not address the question of whether physical appearance perfectionism explains variance in eating disorder symptoms above general perfectionism. The present study investigated the question examining 559 female university students. Physical appearance perfectionism explained an additional 9-17% of variance in eating disorder symptoms above the 11-20% variance explained by general perfectionism. The findings suggest that physical appearance perfectionism plays an important role in disordered eating beyond general perfectionism.

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Perfectionism and eating attitudes in portuguese students: A longitudinal study

Abstract: Our findings contribute to a more clear understanding of the association between perfectionism and eating disorders. SOP and SPP were prospectively associated with abnormal eating attitudes/behaviours and SOP was found to be predictive of diet concerns and overall eating disturbance.

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Perfectionism and eating behaviour in Portuguese adolescents

Perfectionism and eating behaviour in Portuguese adolescents

Perfectionism and eating disorder symptoms in female university students: the central role of perfectionistic self-presentation

Physical appearance perfectionism explains variance in eating disorder symptoms above general perfectionism

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