2007/05/17 by Josefina Castro‐Fornieles, Pilar Lloret Gual, Francisca Lahortiga‐Ramos +7 · 1 citation
Psychology · Social Sciences · Medicine · #Perfectionism, Procrastination, Anxiety Studies #Eating Disorders and Behaviors #Impact of Technology on Adolescents #Perfectionism (psychology) #Eating disorders #Anorexia nervosa #Bulimia nervosa #Psychology #Anxiety #Population #Eating Disorder Inventory #Clinical psychology #Psychiatry #Eating Attitudes Test #Anxiety disorder #Medicine
paper · doi:10.1002/eat.20393
openalex publication_date 2007/05/17 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
OBJECTIVE: To assess perfectionism dimensions in eating disorders in comparison with other psychiatric disorders and subjects from the general population. METHOD: The Child and Adolescent Perfectionism Scale (CAPS), the Eating Disorders Inventory (EDI-2), and the Eating Attitudes Test (EAT) were administered to a group of 108 female eating-disordered patients (75 anorexia nervosa and 33 bulimia nervosa), to a group of 86 female psychiatric patients with anxiety (N = 32), depressive (N = 38), or adaptive disorders (N = 16), and to 213 healthy female participants. RESULTS: Both bulimic and anorexic patients scored higher on Self-Oriented Perfectionism (p < 0.001) than the other two groups but not on Socially-Prescribed Perfectionism (p = 0.054). Among patients with eating disorder, 17.6% obtained a score two standard deviations higher than the mean in the healthy comparison group on self-oriented perfectionism; this percentage was significantly higher than in the other two groups. The percentage of eating disorder patients with high socially-prescribed perfectionism was similar to that found in other psychiatric disorders. Moreover, self-oriented perfectionism was a predictor of an eating disorder. CONCLUSION: Self-oriented perfectionism is more specific to eating disorders than to depressive or anxiety disorders.