Perfectionism and Bulimic Symptoms in African American College Women: Dimensions of Perfectionism and Their Interactions with Perceived Weight Status

Autor/inn/en	Bardone-Cone, Anna M.; Weishuhn, Amanda S.; Boyd, Clarissa A.
Titel	Perfectionism and Bulimic Symptoms in African American College Women: Dimensions of Perfectionism and Their Interactions with Perceived Weight Status
Quelle	In: Journal of Counseling Psychology, 56 (2009) 2, S.266-275 (10 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0022-0167
DOI	10.1037/a0015003
Schlagwörter	Females; Eating Disorders; Interaction; African American Students; Health Behavior; Symptoms (Individual Disorders); Personality Traits; Body Weight; Self Concept; Correlation; Undergraduate Students; Longitudinal Studies; Body Composition; Multidimensional Perfectionism Scale + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Weibliches Geschlecht; Appetite disorder; Essstörung; Interaktion; African Americans; Student; Students; Afroamerikaner; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Health behaviour; Gesundheitsverhalten; Psychiatrische Symptomatik; Individual characteristics; Personality characteristic; Persönlichkeitsmerkmal; Körpergewicht; Selbstkonzept; Korrelation; Longitudinal study; Longitudinal method; Longitudinal methods; Längsschnittuntersuchung
Abstract	This study had 2 primary aims: (a) to examine the unique relations between maladaptive and adaptive dimensions of perfectionism and bulimic symptoms and (b) to test an interactive model of perfectionism and perceived weight status for bulimic symptoms in a sample of African American female undergraduates. The sample consisted of 97 women at Time 1 and 70 women at Time 2 about 5 months later, with bulimic symptoms assessed at both time points. Results showed that maladaptive perfectionism, but not adaptive perfectionism, was uniquely related to bulimic symptoms in cross-sectional analyses. Tests of interaction effects indicated that maladaptive perfectionism interacted with perceived weight status to identify elevated bulimic symptoms such that women with high levels of maladaptive perfectionism who felt overweight exhibited the highest levels of bulimic symptoms, both concurrently and prospectively after controlling for Time 1 levels of bulimic symptoms. This study highlights the relevance of maladaptive perfectionism to bulimic symptoms in African American college women. (Contains 3 footnotes, 2 tables, and 2 figures.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10