Abstract

CRUZ, Guido Salvador; MURAWSKI, Brenda María  and  RUTSZTEIN, Guillermina. Eating behaviors and attitudes, body image and  perfectionism in female college students. Anu. investig. [online]. 2011, vol.18, pp.35-40. ISSN 1851-1686.

Objective: to compare female university students with and without risk of eating disorders, based on characteristics associated with these disorders. Sample: 83 women aged 19 to 31 years old, students from a public university in the City of Buenos Aires. Procedure: Participants completed a Data questionnaire, Contour Drawing Rating Scale (Thompson & Gray, 1995), Eating Disorder Inventory-2 (Garner, 1991; adaptation Rutsztein et al., 2006) and the Almost Perfect Scale-Revised (Slaney, Rice, Mobley, Trippi & Ashby, 2001; adaptation Arana, Keegan & Rutsztein, 2009). Results: Women presenting risk of eating disorders have a higher percentage of body image dissatisfaction and self-induced vomiting, as well as higher scores in most of the subscales of the EDI-2 and the Discrepancy subscale of the APS-R. Conclusions: Women presenting risk of eating disorders have a higher level of maladaptive perfectionism. These indings are relevant to the development of treatments for eating disorder symptomatology.

Keywords : Eating disorders; Perfectionism; Body image; Adult women.

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