Ruggiero Giovanni Maria, Levi Deborah, Ciuna Arcangelo, Sassaroli Sandra
Studi Cognitivi, Postgraduate Cognitive Psychotherapy School, Milan, Italy.
Int J Eat Disord. 2003 Sep;34(2):220-6. doi: 10.1002/eat.10191.
Several theorists have hypothesized that stress situations may trigger abnormal eating and even eating disorders in individuals with a perfectionistic personality. The purpose of this study was to assess whether a stress situation would reveal an association between perfectionism and measures of eating disorders among female high school students.
A sample of 42 female high school students completed the Multidimensional Perfectionism Scale and the Eating Disorder Inventory three times: on an average school day, on the day of an examination, and on the day they received the evaluation of the examination. Linear regression analysis was calculated to verify whether the dimensions of perfectionism were associated with the measures of eating disorders.
Body Dissatisfaction was associated with perfectionism on all the three occasions, whereas Drive for Thinness was associated with perfectionism only on the day the students received the results of the examination.
The results suggest that among nonclinical female individuals, stress may make significant a previously absent association between perfectionism and an actual desire or plan to lose weight. Such a finding suggests that stress may stimulate behaviors related to eating disorders in individuals with a perfectionistic personality.
几位理论家推测，压力情境可能会引发完美主义人格个体出现异常饮食甚至饮食失调。本研究的目的是评估压力情境是否会揭示女高中生完美主义与饮食失调测量指标之间的关联。
42名女高中生样本在三个时间点完成了多维完美主义量表和饮食失调量表：在平均上学日、考试当天以及收到考试成绩当天。进行线性回归分析以验证完美主义维度是否与饮食失调测量指标相关。
身体不满意在所有三个时间点均与完美主义相关，而追求瘦身仅在学生收到考试结果当天与完美主义相关。
结果表明，在非临床女性个体中，压力可能会使完美主义与实际减肥欲望或计划之间先前不存在的关联变得显著。这一发现表明，压力可能会刺激具有完美主义人格的个体出现与饮食失调相关的行为。
