Paediatric Hospital of Coimbra, Paediatric Clinic University, Portugal.
Eur Eat Disord Rev. 2010 Jul-Aug;18(4):328-37. doi: 10.1002/erv.981.
The main objective was to investigate the association between perfectionism and eating behaviour in a non-clinical sample of adolescents of both genders.
997 middle and high school students completed the Portuguese versions of the child-adolescent perfectionism scale (CAPS) and of the eating attitudes test -25 (EAT-25).
In both genders, the perfectionism total score and the sociallyprescribed perfectionism (SPP) score were positive and significantly correlated with the EAT total score and with all EAT dimensions: Drive for Thinness (DT), Bulimic Related Behaviour (BRB), Social Pressure to Eat (SPE). In girls, self-oriented perfectionism (SOP) was also associated with the EAT total score and its dimensions, whereas in boys it was only associated with EAT total score and DT. In both genders SPP was a useful predictor of the EAT-25 total score and of all its dimensions. In which respects SOP, there were some gender differences showing that in boys this dimension should not be considered a predictor of eating behaviours.
These results confirm that high levels of perfectionism (SOP and SPP) are associated with abnormal eating behaviour in both genders.
本研究旨在调查完美主义与青少年两性非临床样本饮食行为之间的关系。
997 名中学生和高中生完成了儿童青少年完美主义量表(CAPS)和饮食态度测试-25 项(EAT-25)的葡萄牙语版本。
在两性中,完美主义总分和社会期望完美主义(SPP)得分与 EAT 总分和所有 EAT 维度呈正相关:对消瘦的渴望(DT)、贪食相关行为(BRB)、进食的社会压力(SPE)。在女孩中,自我导向完美主义(SOP)也与 EAT 总分及其维度相关,而在男孩中,它仅与 EAT 总分和 DT 相关。在两性中,SPP 是 EAT-25 总分和所有维度的有用预测因子。就 SOP 而言,存在一些性别差异,表明在男孩中,这一维度不应被视为饮食行为的预测因子。
这些结果证实,高水平的完美主义(SOP 和 SPP)与两性中异常的饮食行为有关。