Perfectionism and Disordered Eating in Overweight Woman Catarina Peixoto, Maria Jo˜ao Soares, Ant´onio Macedo, Ana Telma Pereira PII: DOI: Reference:
S1471-0153(15)00041-0 doi: 10.1016/j.eatbeh.2015.03.009 EATBEH 917
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26 August 2014 27 January 2015 19 March 2015
Please cite this article as: Peixoto, C., Soares, M.J., Macedo, A. & Pereira, A.T., Perfectionism and Disordered Eating in Overweight Woman, Eating Behaviors (2015), doi: 10.1016/j.eatbeh.2015.03.009
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Catarina Peixoto1,2, Maria João Soares1, António Macedo1, Ana Telma Pereira1 Psychological Medicine Department, Faculty of Medicine, Coimbra, Portugal;
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Epidemiology Unit, Institute of Preventive Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Lisbon,
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Correspondent Author:
Catarina Peixoto, Serviço de Psicologia Médica da Faculdade de Medicina de
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Coimbra, Rua Larga, 3004-504 Coimbra, Portugal 00351-239857759 (voice) 00351-239823170 (fax)
[email protected] ACCEPTED MANUSCRIPT Abstract Introduction: Perfectionism constitutes a risk factor for the development of eating
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disorders. In overweight women, knowledge about the nature of this association is
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Objectives: To investigate the relationship between perfectionism, eating behaviors and
Questionnaire/EDEQ, the Multidimensional Perfectionism Questionnaire and the
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Profile of Mood States were administered to an outpatient sample of 276 women (Mean age=43.85±11.89years; Mean BMI=32.82±5.43kg/m2).
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Results: Correlations between Social Prescribed Perfectionism/SPP, EDEQ total (T)
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and its dimensional scores (Weigh and Shape Concern and Dissatisfaction/WSCD,
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Eating Concern/EC, Dietary Restraint/DR) were significant (r>.30;p>.001). SelfOriented Perfectionism/SOP was significantly correlated with EDEQ-T, WSCD and DR (r=.20). Participants with high (>M+SD) vs. low (.001). SPP, but not SOP, was significantly
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(Introduce here table 1)
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correlated with PA (r=-.27) and NA (r=.34) (Table 1).
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In order to analyze the differences in eating behavior dimensions between groups with distinct perfectionism levels, the total sample was subdivided in three groups based on the MPS dimensions scores, using the cut-off criterion of one standard deviation below and above the mean. Subjects who scored in the SOP measures one standard deviation above the mean (>M+SD; n=45; 17.3%), were considered as having high levels of perfectionism; subject who scored in the SOP one standard deviation below the mean (