Lloyd Samantha, Schmidt Ulrike, Simic Mima, Tchanturia Kate
Department of Psychological Medicine, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, London, UK.
Eating Disorders National Service, South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK.
Neuropsychiatr. 2015;29(4):192-9. doi: 10.1007/s40211-015-0161-y. Epub 2015 Sep 23.
Perfectionism is implicated in the development and maintenance of Anorexia Nervosa and there is some evidence that perfectionism may be elevated in family members. However to date there are no studies investigating behavioural aspects of perfectionism in unaffected mothers.
Forty-one participants took part in this pilot study: 21 unaffected mothers of individuals with Anorexia Nervosa and 20 healthy control mothers. Participants completed two performance based tasks assessing perfectionism-a text replication task and a bead sorting task-along with self-report measures of perfectionism.
No group differences were found between unaffected AN mothers and HC mothers on performance measures of perfectionism.
The findings are discussed in relation to existing studies and clinical implications explored.
完美主义与神经性厌食症的发展和维持有关,并且有一些证据表明家庭成员的完美主义可能会增强。然而,迄今为止,尚无研究调查未受影响母亲的完美主义行为方面。
41名参与者参与了这项初步研究:21名神经性厌食症患者未受影响的母亲和20名健康对照母亲。参与者完成了两项基于表现的评估完美主义的任务——文本复制任务和珠子分类任务——以及完美主义的自我报告测量。
在完美主义的表现测量方面,未受影响的神经性厌食症母亲和健康对照母亲之间未发现组间差异。
根据现有研究对结果进行了讨论,并探讨了临床意义。